yr 6 yearbooks - are they a bit of a rip off ?

[MaryAnnSingleton]

they are £16 and consist of a thin paperback booklet with spaces to stick pictures in,write bits etc about your time at junior/primary school - a nice idea I think, but I imagined them to be something the school had organised themselves you know, an album made in class with more to it than some not very attractive commercial thing.
There is one large pic of your child and 8 passport sized ones to swap with friends and a group hoto very much the same as regular year photo ( which I'd already ordered). I will of course buy it for ds but I think they are counting on parents to not want their child's book to be chucked away if you don't want to fork out.

Ours will get one a bit like that but we don't pay for it.

Yours does sound like a rip off!

Ours in great, a snapshot of each child, in uniform and as their character in the Year 6 production.

They fill in a questionnaire about their memories of the school and the answers are included. And the PSA covers the cost of the whole thing

was feeling that maybe I was over reacting but it seems a bit much to me - I wouldn't mind paying for something a bit more special

I guess I will go and buy it then...

It is lovely to look back on but I think £16 is too much.

anyone else having yearbooks ?

a, bumping this again in case

In our school we get the Y6 parents to provide 30 pictures of their child. We give the children a simple questionnaire to fill in then one of the parents types it all up. We then stick pictures and text into a nice wee book (we get together over several days with wine or coffee dependent on time of day). We've done it for several years. It takes some work but it's a wonderful gift for all of the children.

that sounds lovely MarsLady - it's what I hoped for instead of this nasty mass produced thing..

I am in the middle of doing one with the Year 6 children at our school. They did a questionnaire and came up with a title and some designs for the pages and we gathered together lots of pics of them over the years. Now I am putting it all together and we will get it professionally printed. We have got some some from the PTA and asked for sponsorship from local businesses and parents for the rest so we should have enough to pay for it without having to charge.

That's mad.

My ds1 is making his own scrapbook at school. They got to download photos from the school site, and were each allowed to print two pages of A4 of pictures. (They could choose number/size of photos). Then they could also bring in pictures from home.

I haven't seen the finished result, but I'm looking forward to it!

I just feel cross because that's the way I assumed it would be - a lovely scrapbook with pictures throughout their time at school - if I'd known otherwise I think I might have tried to organise something decent like that myself - our PTA would have helped out too I'm sure...

Sounds miserable MAS. Like the school has taken the easiest route without valuing the children's memories And £16 is a lot of money for a mass produced offort. But I would feel I would have to buy it, which is what they are banking on I guess.

A year 6 yearbook?!

Whatever next....

it's like all these Proms that school's do these days imo...
ds is keen to have a yearbook so think I'll have to bite the bullet...

didn't mean to put that apostrophe in btw

What is wrong with it Branflake? I would love to have something to remind me of my primary school. Our children are really excited about having this one.

I just wish ours was a bit more personal...however 2 yr 6 girls were happily filling there's in yesterday and one even asked me to sign it

Dd is really proud of hers - it's nothing like having a Prom. Theirs was a landscape A5 book with loads of photos of sports stuff, Victorian day, book day etc as well as a page for each child with a space for them to fill in datails (email etc) if they wished. Everyone loved it and PTA will pay for the same thing this year. They all got a compilation disc of photos/video from trip away from during the year put together by some Y6s to the background of the class song. It's lovely.

that sounds wonderful - am

There is nothing wrong with it per se, I just have never heard of it for this age group.

I can't even remember who was in my class in year 6.

Actually, come to think of it, I can't remember who was in my class in Upper six and that wasn't even 10 years ago...

We're doing one this year, the first time in recent memory in this school. Kids are designing front cover themselves; photo and few details about each child; old photos; photos and write-ups of y6 trips (eg Chessington); big group shot...
We are getting it professionally bound and printed, 60 copies for about £250, which th school is funding (we did ask the PTA but the head said they would foot the bill!)

I would've loved one and think it will make a lovely memento.