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A school yearbook
wewrote this yearbook,
Thirty children, a page each, put together by one parent or one teacher in the last few weeks of term,
Start a yearbookSee an example
A class yearbook no longer needs a parent with design software: every family adds their own page from a link. With wewrote, you send one link; each person adds a photograph and a few lines from their phone in under five minutes, with no account. We lay out every page, print and bind the book in the UK and post it within 7 working days of your order. £34.99 for 24 pages, plus £5.99 delivery.
Who is usually in it
Every child in the class, their teacher, the teaching assistant, and whoever ran the trips,
What to ask them for
Send one of these with the link. A prompt gets a better page than a blank box,
- The best day of the whole year,
- Something you can do now that you could not do in September,
- What you want to say to the class in ten years,
The title
The year group, the school and the year. Not “Class of” — that is an American film.
You write the cover yourself, so it can say anything. This is simply what works,
Who actually organises it
Almost always one parent, or one teacher who has decided nobody else is going to do it. You start the book, write the cover, and send one link to the class group — on WhatsApp, in the newsletter, or printed on a slip in book bags.
Everyone who follows the link adds their own page from their phone: a photograph, a few lines, and they are done in under five minutes. Nobody signs up, nobody downloads anything, and nobody needs your login. You see every page before anything is printed, and you can hide or remove any of them.
One book, or one for every family
One book is the common case: the class makes it for the teacher who is leaving, or for the head, and it is handed over on the last day.
A copy for every family is a different job, and we are honest about where we are with it. Today each copy is ordered separately, at the same price, so thirty copies means thirty orders — fine for a handful, tedious for a whole class. If a class set is what you want, tell us before you start and we will sort the order out with you rather than leave you clicking.
Permission, and other people’s children
Everyone who adds a page confirms that the photographs are theirs to use, that everyone recognisable in them is happy to be in a printed book, and that where that is a child they are the parent or guardian, or have asked one. It is on the screen before the page is added, and we record which version was agreed and when.
That covers a parent putting in a photograph of their own child. It does not, and cannot, cover a photograph of the whole class. For that, the permission you need is the one the school already holds — the photography consent on the register — so the safest yearbook is one the school knows about, even when a parent is doing the work. If you are the teacher, you already know which names are on the do-not-photograph list; check the pages against it before you close the book.
When to start
Open it six weeks before the end of term and close it ten days before you need it. Pages arrive in the first two days and then stop, so one reminder a fortnight in, and one the night before you close, is the whole job.
Leavers’ assemblies are the deadline everybody misses. Work back from that date, not from the last day of term.
£34.99 for 24 pages, plus delivery. No VAT to add,
Printed and posted within 7 working days, once you close the book,
Less than 5 minutes: one photograph, a few lines, from their phone,
How a yearbook comes together,
- You start it
Who it is for, a title for the cover, and the look. A minute, and you get one link.
- Everyone adds a page
Every child in the class, their teacher, the teaching assistant, and whoever ran the trips. Each adds a photograph and a few lines from their phone, in under five minutes, with no account.
- We print it and post it
You see every page first. Close the book, order it, and it is printed in the UK and posted within 7 working days.
Questions people ask,
What does it cost?
£34.99 for a 24-page book, then £1.99 for every two pages beyond that. Delivery is £5.99, tracked, within 7 working days. Leaving the wewrote, mark off the cover is £4.99.
Nothing is charged while the book is being filled. You pay once, at the end, when you have read it and are happy.
Does anyone need an app or an account?
No. You send a link, people open it in whatever browser is already on their phone, write something, add a photograph or four, and that is the whole thing. Five minutes.
You do not need an account either — though you can sign in with your email address to find your books again if you lose the link.
Do I need twenty friends?
No, and this is the thing most people worry about. 24 pages is simply the smallest book a printer will bind, so every book is at least 24 pages whatever happens, at £34.99. Any pages nobody wrote on are printed as clean white pages, ready to be written on or filled with photographs later.
If eight people write, you get eight pages of messages and the rest are printed as clean white pages — with a line on the first saying what they are for. Plenty of people write two or three pages themselves to start it off. A short book with good pages in it is better than a long one padded out.
Your people could write this,
Or another occasion: every occasion