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Cookbook fundraiser
Food for Thought: Is a school cookbook the perfect fundraiser? 1914 1492 YOLO
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Food for Thought: Is a school cookbook the perfect fundraiser?

Browse most family kitchens and you will find an abundance of cookbooks, written recipes and pages torn from magazines of cakes and desserts. Regardless of heritage, age or occupation, food is an important part of people’s lives and cultures, used to celebrate and to connect. Due to their popularity and purpose in daily life, cookbooks…

Ginny Gartland Yearbook Interview
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Interview with Ginny Gartland

Interview conducted and written by John Shafer, Director of YOLO Introduction Working at Cockle Bay School in Howick for over 20 years, Ginny Gartland has grown up with a small group that has become a large community. As manager of the Howick Electoral Centre in an election, students that were 5 years old when they…

print and digital yearbook
Going Digital: Is a digital yearbook a better choice? 1200 961 YOLO
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Going Digital: Is a digital yearbook a better choice?

With technology constantly at our fingertips, it’s clear that the world is more digital than ever. How we absorb news, communicate with family, and pay our taxes has changed dramatically – but should your school yearbook follow suit? Both print and digital yearbooks have their pros and cons, which can make it tricky when deciding…

choosing yearbook content
Tips on Choosing Yearbook Content 2048 1495 YOLO
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Tips on Choosing Yearbook Content

Once your school decides to produce a yearbook, the next step is deciding what content to include. For most schools, it’s not a case of what to put in, but what to leave out! OUTCOMES A great way to facilitate this process is to first work out a set of desired outcomes for your yearbook.…

Yearbook Angela Little Communications Manager
Interview with Angela Little 2048 1427 YOLO
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Interview with Angela Little

Interview conducted and written by John Shafer, Director of YOLO Introduction Years ago, when visiting the archive room of Sacred Heart College in Auckland, I was struck by the smell of dust – over 100 years of age on the documents and yearbooks. Everything in the cramped, contained space told the stories of the students,…

diversity in yearbook
Celebrating Diversity in Your School Yearbook 2048 1365 YOLO
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Celebrating Diversity in Your School Yearbook

There’s a definite shift around the world towards inclusivity and better recognition of the many groups that comprise our society. Whether it’s the media, business culture or academic institutions, we see encouraging signs of their efforts to acknowledge diversity. A recent ERO report highlights the increasing ethnic diversity in New Zealand schools, with the regions…

Online tools
Handy Online Tools for Your Yearbook 2048 1365 YOLO
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Handy Online Tools for Your Yearbook

The Internet has always been a fantastic resource for information, but as online applications grow in sophistication, we now have access to many online tools that can help you create your yearbook – including, of course, YOLO’s specialist yearbook software. BACKGROUND REMOVE While you can remove backgrounds in an application like Photoshop or even Microsoft…

Yearbook Planning
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Time Saving Tips for Yearbook Planning

Creating a yearbook is a pretty big undertaking. A 96-page yearbook can have 400 to 600 photos and over 30,000 words! So, what can you do to make the project less demanding and more fun while keeping your New Year’s resolution to be more efficient in 2019? A bit of yearbook planning can help you…

Timeline creation
Working to a Yearbook Timeline 2048 1365 YOLO
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Working to a Yearbook Timeline

It’s 2019 and you’re back at school, probably with thoughts about how the summer break seemed to fly by. However, the school year can also move at bewildering speed, to the extent that getting the yearbook ready can be a last-minute scramble. During February and March, your school is enjoying warm summer days, and the…

2019 content
What’s in, What’s out for 2019 Content 2048 1365 YOLO
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What’s in, What’s out for 2019 Content

Most schools have a full calendar of events, activities and occasions, so it can be hard deciding what content to include in your yearbook and what to leave out – especially in these rapidly changing times. As with any publication, deciding what content is appropriate is a lot easier when you define your audience. Primary…

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