In preparing for the school year to begin, how do you establish a school identity? Do you name your school? Do you have a mascot, make student identification cards or school T-shirts? Jacci Howard Bear, About.com guide to Desktop Publishing, has step-by-step instructions on how to make a student ID Card for your homeschool students.
So what do you do? What do you do for school identity? How did you come up with your school name? What other things do you do? Do you have ID cards, stationery, school colors? Share your creativity with us and help spark ideas for the rest of us.
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I’ve never officially named our school, so I think that will be one of our first projects this year.
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We have been at this homeschooling thing for three years now. I think it’s high time we gave ourselves a name:)
We just named our homeschool last week– Willow Tree Academy. It’s named after the beautiful willow tree in our back yard. I just started a new blog, but there’s not much to it yet! willowtreeacademy.blogspot.com
Great post! I love the idea of i.d. cards. . .
We have been HS for 8 years now
My son will be in 6th this year 
We named our school when we first started when he was 4 years old ,it is
G*L*O*W Academy
G=God
L=Leads
0=Our
W=Way
Academy
Our Color has changed 2 times and so has our mascot
We are now
Eagles
and colors Blue and White
ID Card
We have made one Each year, you would be surprised who all gives discounts with them
I named out homeschool, after one of my favorite comic books, we are the Gist Academy for Gifted Youngsters
This is the beginning of our third year homeschooling. We named our school last year, JAMS Academy. The first three letters are the first initial of my daughters names and the last initial is for our last name. The kids have chosen blue, green, and silver for our school colors.
We’re planning on making school ID’s this year.
We named ours the first year we started homeschooling to give my son an identity and to help transition him from public to home school. Our name is Life Science Academy and relates to the fact that everything we are learning directly relates to life with an emphasis on science (my son’s favorite subject). It sounds very exclusive (which it is).
Great names! Ours is Haas Academy of Academic Study/ies..H.A.A.S.
Which sounds better! Let me know. Thanks. BTW we would like to use Black and Gold (Pittsburgh colors)if we can.
We have three girls and my husband’s name is Andrew, so our school always been St. Andrew’s School for Girls. Someone once asked where our kids went to school, and in times of not wanting to explain homeschooling we answered with “St. Andrews”. The person was so excited because his son also went to St. Andrews! Opps…….. Our mascot is our lab, Henry and our colors are light blue and brown.
I named our school for the purpose of high school transcripts only. I use Transcript Pro to produce a high school transcript for my children, and having a school name just makes it look more professional.
We are a multiracial family and we come in a rainbow of colors so it was an easy step to name our school Rainbow Family Christian Homeschool. This has stuck with us for 12 years and we will graduate our first one this year. We have printed labels and I have qualified for some neat discounts all because we have an “official”name!
Great names! Ours is Haas Academy of Academic