How honours boards are helping schools to transmit their values to students and their parents

Honouring members of the school community is the most obvious and direct way of generating a sense of civic and personal pride, as well as ensuring that parents fully appreciate that the school has values about which it cares passionately.

Having an honours board also helps the school to face the problem that its members move through the school and then leave to enjoy the rest of their lives. It ensures that the fundamental principles that lie behind the school are not taken for granted and are clearly and overtly expressed.

What’s more, such boards commemorate the work of the school and the individuals that have made it what it is, recording the names of those who have served notably as students or teachers.

Likewise the board can record the triumphs and achievements of the school across the years, be it the names of those who have generously donated to the school or the triumph of the under 12s football team in winning the county cup.

Indeed, once the history of the school is on display for all to see, it becomes more real, both to those within the school as well as to parents and visitors.

In this way placing such an honours board in the assembly hall or school entrance proclaims to one and all that these past events and the individuals who created them are important and will not be forgotten.

Likewise for the school that has had the good fortune to be rehoused in new premises in recent years the honours board can establish the connection between the exciting new building of today and the previous premises that have been used.

Greenbarnes has a long history of creating and supplying honours boards for schools across the UK. There are examples of such boards on our website.

You’ll also find links to other aspects of our work at the foot of the honours board page – or you can call 01280 701093 for a copy of our catalogue, or to discuss individual projects.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Michael Barnes