School Fundraising Incentive - Principal for the Day!

It's time to get your school fundraiser rolling, and you know you need a great way to get your student body excited about the fundraiser and ready to participate in it. Realizing that every opportunity is a teaching opportunity, this is also a chance to teach your students something valuable. Here is a quick and easy way to promote your school fundraiser, while teaching leadership skills as well.

Offer a principal for the day contest.

You probably already know that being the principal of an elementary school is no easy task! There is paperwork to complete, disciplinary actions to be taken, and many, many activities that need planning. Offering the chance for one of your students to go behind the scene s and see what it is the principal really does every day will teach that student responsibility and leadership, but be fun and exciting as well!

There are many successful ways of orchestrating this , and it's sure to get kids at your school pumped about the fundraiser! You could hold a drawing where every kid that sells gets to put their name into a hat, you could pick a day and whoever has the most sales on that particular day gets to be the principal or just select the student with the top sales.

Regardless of how you organize it, choose one student to be the principal and basically complete everything that the principal would.

Here are some ideas of tasks for the student principal to complete:

- Do the morning announcements
- Eat lunch with the principal
- Visit classrooms
- Answer phone calls
- Make one special rule for the day
- Complete paperwork
- Help principal with bus duty

Not only is this a great way to promote your school fundraiser and get kids excited about participating in it, but it's also a wonderful opportunity for your faculty and staff to respond to the needs of the student body.

You can talk to the student principal and ask what he/she would do differently, and what needs the student body would like to see met. This could be both a great teaching and learning opportunity for you to hear the needs and concerns of one of your own students.