End of School Year
Grades:
Elementary School
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Tips and examples to craft letters for your students.
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ByJeanne Croteau, M.S., Psychology
May 13, 2024
Saying goodbye to students can be so hard. After spending a whole year working together, it’s impossible to imagine our classrooms without them! One of the best ways to show them how much they mean to you is to write end-of-year letters to students. Take a look at some terrific examples from other teachers, and learn how to write your own. Plus be sure to fill out the form on this landing page to get a bundle of three printable end-of-year letters you can customize for your students.
How To Write End-of-Year Student Letters
Keep it short
We make a lot of memories with our kids, but trying to create a highlight reel for everyone would be tough. It’s better to keep your end-of-year letters to students short and sweet. Even if it’s brief, it can be heartfelt.
Personalize
Even if you use a template, there are ways to customize your letters. Of course, you’ll want to address your notes to each student by name. Along with your signature at the bottom, though, you can mention one special thing you’ll remember about them so that it feels more personal.
Use a template
A template makes it easy to quickly customize letters for each of your students. Fill out the form on this page to get our free downloadable end-of-year letter templates!
End-of-Year Letter Examples and Ideas
Take a look at what other teachers have written to find more ideas for your own end-of-year letters to students and families.
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1. Personalized Heartfelt Letter
Use our free Google Docs template to easily customize letters for each of your students. You can personalize as much or as little as you’d like. Just fill out the form on this landing page to grab it along with two others featured below.
Get Free End-of-Year Letter Template
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2. Goodbye Poem
Sometimes a poem can capture our feelings better than any letter ever could. This sweet letter is perfect for letting your students know how much they mean to you, while also reinforcing language skills. It’s a win-win!
Get it: Goodbye Letter
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3. Letter With Picture
Including a photo of your student is an easy way to personalize your letter, plus it gives families a cute keepsake they’ll love to pull out and share years from now.
Get it: Easy End of Year Student Letter
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4. ABC Farewell
This is an incredibly clever idea, and perfect for the early elementary grades. You could even personalize this by including the student’s name for the letter it starts with!
Get it: Clip Art and ABC Farewell
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5. Poem With Colorable Picture
Pass these out on the last day of school and let kids color their pictures. The final result is a little bit of you and a little bit of them, all in one!
Get it: End of Year Poem
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6. Personal Card
Choose some note cards you love and spend a few hours writing personal messages. This takes a little more time, but you only need a few short sentences to make students and their families feel really special.
Get it: Sending Letters Home
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7. Great Expectations Poem
Here’s another sweet poem, with wonderful wishes for a student’s future. Jot a personal memory on the back to make it even more special.
Get it: End of Year Poem
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8. Handwritten Note
You can use the same message over and over again, but handwriting it out makes it feel more personal. We love that these letters feature the students’ names in beautiful calligraphy at the top too.
Get it: Handwritten Letters
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9. A Note for Older Kids
This end-of-year letter template has a design that works well for older students. Just fill out the form on this page to grab your free customizable Google Docs template.
Get Free Template
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10. Gold in Every Piece of Your Story
This collaborative letter is such a cool idea! Gather quotes, stories, and words of wisdom from various people who’ve interacted with your students over the last year, and gather them together into one sweet document they’ll cherish.
Get it: There Is Gold Letter
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11. Mailbox Activity
Pair your end-of-year letters to students with this cute activity. Each student turns a paper bag into their own mailbox. Then, they write letters to each other to slip into the boxes, along with your own special deliveries.
Get it: Mailbox Activity
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12. Family Letter
Parents and guardians will appreciate a letter at the end of the year too. Use it to sum up some of the great things that happened, and invite them to keep in touch in the future.
Get it: Good-Bye Letter
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13. It’s Time To Say Goodbye Poem
Poems are popular for end-of-year letters, and this one by Debbie Clement is truly sweet. It’s perfect for preschool and early elementary, especially when you add your own short note to personalize it.
Get it: End of Year Poem
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14. Preschool Days
Here’s another clever rhyme for young students, this one specific to preschool activities and learning. Personalize it with teacher names, and parents can tuck this into their child’s memory book as a keepsake.
Get it: Preschool Days Poem
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15. AI Customized Letters or Poems
This is one of the ways ChatGPT can be a real time-saver for teachers! With just a few simple prompts, the program can write individualized letters for your students. One teacher even used it to write custom poems!
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16. End-of-Year Bookmarks
When you turn your end-of-year letters into bookmarks, students can keep them close at hand for years to come.
Get it: Bookmarks
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17. Free Printable Notes
Print simple notes on colorful paper, then flip them over and write a line or two on the back that’s customized for your student. Simple and so thoughtful!
Get it: Printable Notes
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18. Short and Sweet Note
This end-of-year letter template’s design is perfect for a short and sweet message to elementary students. Get the free Google Doc template for this letter and two others when you fill out the form on this landing page.
Get Free Note Template
Be sure to fill out the form on this page to get your free End-of-Year Student Letter templates!
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Plus, 50 Free Printable End-of-Year Awards for Students.
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