The Best 5 Back to School Templates

If you are an education professional, more than probably your holidays are coming to an end. We want to help you so it doesn’t become an uphill struggle. In fact, we would like to give a hand not only to teachers, but to all those people whose works depend on this yearly event: counselors, educators, principals… We don’t forget about anyone!

In this post we are going to show you the best five Slidesgo templates for the beginning of the school year. Use them, you won’t need to worry about anything!

1. Back to School: Info for Parents & Students

The first thing to do is to provide all the needed information for parents and students before the classes begin. Things like the enrollment process, timetables, after-school activities…

If you need to show this in a fun and visual way, we have a nice template for this purpose. You’ll be editing it with ease!

Regarding these slides, we would like to highlight the chalkboard backgrounds and the different icons and drawings related to school. This hand-drawn style is very much present in this template. What’s more, there are some process diagrams included so you can represent the necessary steps to follow before the course starts.

Download Back to School: Info for Parents & Students and make the “rentrée” more easy for both of them.

2. School Icebreakers

OK, it’s the first day of class. You know how difficult it is to break the ice, right? To turn this day into a funny experience, we have designed this template for teachers. They can use it to create some entertaining games to start on a good footing and, at the same time, review some concepts from the previous year.

As a teacher, you will be able to grab the attention of your students and make them have a good time at class. Besides, you can show your Google Slides or PowerPoint skills. How? By making the most of the interactivity of these slides—they include buttons and shapes that link to other slides.

It is super easy to advance or go back just by clicking the arrows. Want to start from the first slide again? Look at the top-right corner: that “home” icon is the key!

Get the School Icebreakers presentation and make the first day of class a funny day.

3. Word Work Activities

While on holidays, we’re sure you definitely went to the beach or the poolside. Wait a minute, is it spelt “definitely” or “definately”? This could be one of the questions your students might be asking, so why don’t you include the answer in this presentation? You can use it to review some concepts from previous years.

These cool slides are perfect for spelling activities. In fact, it contains several games that will liven up the first days of the new school term while teaching some grammar to your students.

The backgrounds contain doodles, letters and other details to make everything more interesting and eye-catchy. There are also illustrations and pictures to power up the presentation. This will make your students focus on the class.

Try the Word Work Activities template and show that you definitely know your ABC’s when it comes to presentations.

4. Online Learning Planner

Due to current circumstances all around the world, online and distance learning are becoming much more relevant than ever. If you need some help to plan those digital lessons you have to teach, this template could be the answer. In fact, it is also suitable if you need to inform parents about the weekly schedule their children will follow online.

Technology is making its way into the teaching world. Knowing this, we have created slides whose design reminds of the interface of a certain popular browser. We think this is an interesting choice, especially if you need to organize your classes using platforms such as Google Classroom.

Additionally, there are some nice flat-style illustrations. Layouts are divided into sections so you can group all the related content together. The use of color is also smart, as it works as a visual indicator to know exactly at what part of the presentation you currently are.

Download Online Learning Planner for free and embrace new technologies.

5. Interactive Bulletin Board

Every single classroom usually has a place to put announcements, reminders, important events, news, notices… That’s why we created this interactive template—it looks like a virtual bulletin board. This way, students, parents and teachers can have access to this important information at all times.

This presentation is as versatile as it gets, so you can use it to communicate between the members of the school. The backgrounds are super cool and realistic, and the layouts make use of post-its and notes. The overall look is quite original, don’t you think?

We’ve mentioned “interactive” before. That’s right, depending on where you click, you will be redirected to other slides. To make things even more fun, we’ve included pictures and a hand-drawn title font. In short, it’s your own bulletin board with your own notes!

Download the Interactive Bulletin Board presentation and start editing it. You won’t need any thumbtacks!

It’s time for the wrap-up. We hope that this article has inspired you in some way. Are the ideas starting to flow? Then go ahead and make the process of going back to school as interesting and motivating for everyone as possible.

Did you know that there are even more back-to-school templates available? Visit Slidesgo and see for yourself! Have a look at all the presentations for Google Slides and PowerPoint. All of them are for free!