This year I decided to join the Yearbook as it is a good opportunity to engage in some creative work during the times of Covid. The yearbook is an annual publication that commemorates the events of the academic year. It is a year long commitment where the students are allowed to expand their creativity and imagination and display them through the Yearbook. We use Adobe In Design, Photoshop, Light room and Illustrator to create the Yearbook and I believe this will help me to develop and improve my skills in this field. My goal is to help create a Yearbook that one day in the future, the students will hesitate to put down.

During the first few weeks of meeting through zoom I realized it is so much more than what meets the eye. The Yearbook members put a lot of hard work to bring out the lovely product. At the same time it also a very amusing task filled with areas for innovative ideas and creations.  Through this I also get the opportunity to work collaboratively with students of all ages, which  think is the best way to get to know people.

As the only two DP2 students, myself and Ashwini will be designing the senior pages for this year’s publication. Apart from that I will also do the pages of the Head of School, Secondary principal and Primary principal. After aggreeing on a theme and format as a group, me and Ashwini further decided on a common template for the senior pages and what to be included. The Yearbook is important for them as they have all their wonderful memories all the years in it. We are still working on the initial steps, with the hope of getting the information efficiently, we sent out google forms to the grade and hope to complete the senior pages over the December break.

A screenshot of the google form sent out.

Overall, so far its been great, a lovely experience of everyone coming together, and we will start to sort out the pictures and information and creating the pages soon. I’m sure it will be hectic but also fun at the same time. Yearbook club is excited for a year of hard work and quality work.

The yearbook is a treasure full of memories, especially for the seniors and we hope to do out best to make it unforgettable.

Learning Outcomes;

• Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth.
• Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process.
• Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively.