Jounals
The 4Schools.ie’s Student Journal is a learning focused journal which can be tailored to reflect the unique culture and ethos of your school.
Our Standard A5 Student Journal includes:
- A choice of hardback or spiral binding
- A choice of five attractive full colour cover designs with your school name and crest over-printed in black
- Either 8 or 16 pages of your customised content printed in one colour
- A choice of two Learning Modules
- A full colour diary featuring facts, quotes and think-links
- 16 pages of notes for communication
- between parent/guardian and school.
A Student Journal for Every Budget
Our Student Journal can be tailored to reflect the unique culture and ethos of your school. This high quality and affordable journal supports learning and makes communication easy. We have three offers:
 |
 |
 |
|---|---|---|
| A5 size with a hardback or softcase cover. |
A5 or B5 size with a hardback, softcase or spiralbound cover with your school name and crest in black.
|
A5, B5 or A4 size with a hardback, softcase or spiralbound. |
| Cover Design A | A choice of five stylish cover designs. |
Have a fully customised cover designed specifically for your school or choose one of our five stylish cover designs with your school name and crest overprinted in black. |
| Up to sixteen pages of customised content at the front of the journal. |
Any number of pages of customised content at the front of the journal.
|
|
| Two Learning Modules - 'Teenage Lifestyle Guide’ & ‘Key Learning Points’. | A choice of two expertly developed learning modules (seven options available). |
A choice of expertly developed learning modules (seven options available).
|
| A full-colour weekly diary spread with Parent & Teacher Sign-off. | A choice of full-colour weekly diary spreads (four options available). |
A choice of full-colour weekly diary spreads (four options available).
|
| Eight pages of Absence Notes and eight pages of Notes to/from Teacher. | Sixteen pages of Standard Notes (five options available). |
Fully customised notes or a choice of standard notes (five standard options available).
|
|
Any additional components your school may require |
Optional Extras
To help you build the student journal that is right for your school you can include extras such as:
- A choice of size (A4 or B5)
- A completely customised cover
- Full colour customised content
- Extra learning modules
- Customised notes
- Ribbon markers & protective plastic sleeves
- Teacher Comment Forms/Student Achievement Forms
- Any other additional forms required by your school.
Binding Options
 |
 |
 |
||
|
The hardback cover is bound using strong glue to ensure that it stands up to the wear and tear of school life.
|
The spiral bound cover is light and has a durable plastic cover to protect it and keep it in good condition.
|
The softcase cover uses the same strong glue as used on the hardback cover to ensure durability but is lighter weight.
|
Cover Designs 
Below are our five cover designs, you may also wish to design your own or we can design one specifically for your school. The Value Journal is option D. To view an enlarged image of each cover click on the images below (Opens in a pop-up window).
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
A
|
B
|
C
|
D
|
E
|
Special Covers - 'Design Your Own' Cover or 'Gold Embossed'
 |
 |
|
| Customised Cover - You can opt to have a completely customised cover unique to your school. You can design this yourself or leave it to us to design an original cover for your journal. | Gold Embossed - For schools who want a simple but elegant look and feel to their journal you have the option of a nicely textured hardback cover with your school name and crest embossed in gold leaf. |
Your Customised Content
In this section of your journal you can include information particular to your school.
In the Standard Journal you can choose to have either 8 or 16 pages of fully customised content printed in one colour. You can also customise the front and back inside leaves offering you 6 extra pages of content.
In the Customised Journal you can opt to have this section printed in full colour and it can contain as many pages as you require to communicate your schools unique culture, ethos and school rules to the entire school community.
 |
 |
 |
||
|
Customised Content in Full Colour
|
Back Inside Leaf
|
Customised Content in Full Colour
|
Our customers include a range of content in this section of their journals. Below is a list of ideas that you may find helpful when considering what you want to communicate to your students through your Student Journal.
|
|
Learning Modules
Our Student Journal supports education through our expertly developed 16-page Learning Modules in order to provide pupils with information that is highly relevant to their development not only in school but as individuals. Below is a list of the available modules, you can use the links provided to download the full content of each module.
 |
 |
 |
||
|
Teenage Lifestyle Guide This module is full of information on health, safety, self-image, bullying, exercise and stress management.
|
The Seven Steps to Examination Success This module gives students important guidance on how to prepare and excel in exams.
|
Making A Difference This module is full of stories on the positive impact young people are having in their schools, communities and society by actively engaging to make a difference.
|
 |
 |
|||
|
Key Learning Points Providing your students with critical learning information, this module covers some key information points in Maths, Irish, French, German Spanish and History. |
Post Leaving Certificate Courses This module details some of the options and choices available in relation to further education, obtaining a job or starting a business. Download PDF (2 MB) |
Weekly Diary Spreads
Recording information is the primary function of any school diary so space for writing is vital. Our Student Diary maximises on space offer your pupils, teachers and parents the room they need to record information. Our weekly diary spread is in full colour at no extra charge to you! We have a range of diary spread options to suit the needs of your school. If what you need is not listed, please get in touch with us and we can help you to customise the perfect diary spread for your student journal.
 |
 |
|
|
Full colour with a weekly parent and teacher sign-off. Download PDF(160KB) |
Full colour with a weekly parent sign-off. Download PDF(160KB) |
 |
 |
|
|
Full colour with no weekly sign-off. Download PDF(160KB) |
Full colour with no weekly sign-off and 2 pages of notes after each week. Download PDF (160KB) |
Theme 
The theme of the 20112012 Student Journal is Making a Difference. The weekly diary spread features interesting facts about young people in all aspects including science, business, sport, art, music, acting and more.
Notes
Communication is a vital function of the our Student Journal. We have worked closely with schools and teachers to develop notes that make communication easy. The notes come in sets of 16 pages which may be perforated or non-perforated. There are 48 notes per set of non-perforated notes and 24 notes per set of perforated notes.
You can download a sample layout of each set of notes below.
 |
 |
 |
||
|
16 pages of Free Text Absence Notes Download Sample PDF (1 MB) |
16 pages of Absence Notes based on NEWB absence categories Download PDF (1 MB) |
16 pages of Notes to/from Teacher Download PDF (1 MB) |
 |
 |
 |
||
|
8 pages of Absence Notes & 8 pages of Notes to/from Teacher Download PDF (1 MB) |
16 pages of Permission to Leave Notes Download PDF (1 MB) |
16 pages of Table Style Notes Download PDF (1 MB) |
Additional Components
At 4schools.ie we aim to meet your needs in every way that we can, that is why we offer our customers the option to add additional components to their journal in order to help them to build the journal that is right for their school.
 |
 |
|
| Continuous Assesment form designed especially for one of our Customised Journals Customer. | Report Card designed especially for one of our Customised Journals Customer. |
Get a Quote
