Yearbook Content Checklist

Do you ever feel overwhelmed about completing your yearbook and making sure it is perfect? This checklist can help you and your students make sure everything that you wanted to include in your book is in there. Not every section will apply to every school, every yearbook is unique and the experience of making it should not be stressful. 

• A yearbook cover- This is the first impression of your yearbook, what can you do to make your cover stand out? Will you allow your students an opinion on the cover, will they be able to create and vote on a cover?  
• A title page- This page should include all kinds of general information about your school (i.e. what grades attend your school, where are you located, etc.) This could have cool or interesting facts about your school, or maybe the area of where the school is located. 
• An opening section- This section will introduce your yearbook and the uniqueness of its theme, this section will often include a table of contents 
• Table of contents- This will guide readers to specific sections of the book they would like to look through as well as provide for a quick overview of what is included in your yearbook. 
• A closing page- This page closes out the book and sometimes includes a message from the editor. 
• It’s in the details- Along with thinking about what sections you would like to be a part of your school’s yearbook you should also consider what font you are going to use, where your headers and footers will be located, how you will make divider pages to link on section to the next, and double checking everything! 
• School Administrators pages- These pages should include administrations photos, names, and messages they might want to include. (this is people like the principal of the school). 
• Faculty/staff photos- These pages include pictures and names of teachers, office staff, the school nurse, the school counselor, lunch ladies, and any other staff that might be applicable to include). 
• Student portraits- These pages comprise of having the students school pictures along with their names. Some schools might want to include class pictures as well as their individual photos. 
• Special awards/superlatives- Does your school vote on superlatives? This is the area where you would feature these students. You can incorporate any type of special awards in this section as well. Does your school have a class top 10, you can recognize these students in the awards section as well. 
• Special classes- These pages introduce students live in the classrooms. They can include pictures of teachers and students in art class, music, general classrooms, or even just eating lunch in the cafeteria 
• School events- What kind of special events go on in your school? These pages should have pictures of field trips, school dances, proms, sporting events, pep rallies, spirit days, school plays, and more. 
• Clubs, teams, and other student group pages- These pages are your opportunity to introduce all the sports teams, clubs, student council groups, and any other group that your school may have. Pictures and highlights should be encompassed in this. Examples include: book club, DECA competitions, sports teams, safety patrol, cooking club, art club, chorus, band, etc. 
• Graduating class coverage- Whether you are working on a yearbook for a high school or a middle school or even an elementary school there will always be students moving on to a new school. This is your chance to highlight this grade of students for all that they have accomplished throughout their time at the school. These pages also give them the space to write memories they may have with each other or let them pick a quote they would like to feature. This is also the area where you may include fun pages like having the students guess whos baby photo is whos, or include what colleges they are attending if they are seniors. 
• Autograph pages- In every yearbook and every year of school that comes to an end it is nice to allow students and faculty be able to write each other messages in the back or the front of their yearbooks. These pages should be blank and large enough for students and faculty to gather as many messages as they want. 
• Business advertisements- Sometimes you may choose as a school to get business to purchase ads in order to bring the cost of your yearbook down for our students, parents, and faculty. 
• Parent ads- This area of the yearbooks gives parents a place to purchase pages or half pages for their children to highlight any aspects of their life they would like and to write positive messages for the future. 
• Year in review pages- This page you may want to include uses pieces of popular culture, or big events that have happened at your school to encompass all that has happened this year. For example some schools may have things like top songs of the year, or movies that came out that year. 
• Fill-in the blank page- Your school yearbook can also consist of prompts for students to fill out such as “My favorite memory is…”