Yearbook tips Blog

Prom is one of the biggest events for most students school life, yet it is often too late in the year to include in your yearbook.

Fortunately, with some clever new technology adding prom photos and videos is now possible! With a free app you can simply scan the front cover of your yearbook (or a page of your choice) and be directed to your prom memories!

Getting your yearbook project off the ground can be the hardest part of all but with the support of the Wave Ed team we can ensure your project will run smoothly from start to finish. Here are our top tips for getting started...

We offer three main binding options, all of which look fantastic and have been tried and tested to ensure durability. Options include softback (paperback), hardback (case bound) and traditional (leatherette) styles, meaning we have something to suit all tastes and budgets!

Gigabook is our mid-range yearbook package, it is only available as a softback or hardback book at our standard easy to read size. Gigabooks are produced using our state of the art facilities to ensure a quality finish every time.

The DIY yearbook packages makes our fantastic production facilities available to schools and academies who wish to design their own yearbooks but would like them professionally printed and bound.

Terabook is our most flexible and customisable yearbook package, providing schools with the ability to tailor every aspect of the book's content and design to their specific needs. This is our most popular package which schools have enjoyed for many years.

“You know you’re a 90’s kid if...” page was a popular addition to many of our yearbooks this year, so we've popped some of our favourites below!

How many of the below are true for you??

Megabook is our entry level yearbook package, it is only available as a softback book and is smaller than our other books at A5 size (half of A4) in a landscape format. Our Megabooks are printed and manufactured to the same high standards, using the same state of the art facilities as our other packages.

The individual leavers profiles usually make up a big chunk of the yearbook and it's the one place you can be sure to include a photo of everyone in the year group. We've seen all sorts of types and styles of yearbook profile photos submitted over the years, below are some of the popular options that are available to you...

I'm delighted to announce the introduction of our new primary school yearbook package! We've worked really hard to design and plan a product range that will be...

A few schools that we are working with have opted for selfies instead of regular profile pictures for their 2014 yearbook. We think this is a great idea as the selfie is so 'of the moment' that it really adds to the essence of capturing what's relevant in the lives of today's school leavers...

Many of our customers prefer to take their own profile photos, rather than using the school photos which can be dated or badly taken. So we have compiled our top tips for taking great profile pics.

Be warned - inappropriate content is unlikely to make it into your yearbook and so submitting it is usually a waste of time, and can result in your entry being deleted or edited by staff. Here are some tips to make sure your content makes it:

Thinking of creating a yearbook committee but not sure what job roles are needed? This is the post for you.

Here’s a quick outline of the main roles:

Some schools choose to allow everyone to pick their own yearbook photo, whilst others like to have all of the photos in a similar format, so take their own or use photos from the school system, read more about the various options here.

If your school has opted to let you select your own photo choosing the right yearbook profile picture can be a tricky decision...

Facebook can be a great tool for helping to organise and promote your yearbook, but care needs to be taken when using it to collect images for the book to ensure an excellent end result...

Sometimes you just can’t put it better yourself and that is why famous quotes crop up in yearbooks so often! Whether you want something sentimental, funny or motivational there is sure to be a famous quote out there to sum up exactly what you want to say.

The year 7 school photo...for many just hearing those words will make you cringe! And yes, putting your first ever school photo in your yearbook will definitely bring some embarrassment, but will also create a whole lot of laughter!

With so much going on in schools and academies on a day to day basis one of the hardest jobs for a teacher or yearbook editor is to keep the student committee on task...

This is the second post in a two part series in which we look at including additional content in the yearbook about the things that were happening in the world while you were at school. In part one we looked at the sort of things that you could include, in part two we are looking at how year groups like to present the information in an attractive way.

One the the main purposes of a yearbook is to provide the reader with a snapshot of the moment in time in which it was created, so that when you read it in years to come you are reminded not only of the people that you shared your school days with, but what was happening in the world and in popular culture.

As your students look ahead to the next chapter in their lives, it can be difficult for them to comprehend the significance of their time at school. But a few years down the line...

Producing a Yearbook does not have to be a long and tedious process and here at WaveEd we aim to make it as quick and simple as possible. That's why we came up with 9 Simple Steps...

Leavers hoodies and yearbooks go hand-in-hand, which is why when you order both with us we will give you £100 off* to say thank you...

One of the most important jobs for the yearbook committee is promoting the sale of yearbooks to the students, and collecting orders, as the more books you order the cheaper they get, so the more pages you can include! These are our top leavers yearbook promo tips...

Order both your yearbooks and leavers hoodies from WaveEd in 2013 and we will give you £100 off your yearbooks! All you need to do is order more than 25 hoodies, and spend at least £1000 on yearbooks (that's only 50 £20 books, or 100 £10 books!)

Choosing your profile headings can be tricky, remember that you want them to be relevant and entertaining both now, and when you look back at your school yearbook in the future...

During the past few years the number of schools that produce yearbooks has gone up significantly. Yearbooks always prove popular with students as they offer a tangible reminder of school days, school friends and even teachers.

But if your school is regularly producing yearbooks how is it possible to make them stand out and feel different year on year?