Each year, schools all around the world share their inspiring #SchoolStories throughout December. Each day there's a new challenge to tackle and share with your community. We call it #SocialAdvent.
Will you be taking part? Last year, schools taking part reached over 2 million people.
December has been a firm favourite at @intSchools HQ for the past three years, following the great fun we've had running our #SocialAdvent challenge. This year we are looking to make the challenge our greatest one yet, with a record number of participants across a global audience.
To make it extra special, our creative elves have been hard at work - coming up and designing a bigger, better and refreshed #SocialAdvent challenge to spread festive marketing cheer this December.
So, without further ado we have this year's #SocialAdvent to share out now!
The rules couldn't be simpler - each day we will ask you to do a festive challenge using social media. This could be posting your favourite Christmas joke or creating a time lapse video. Everything is shared on Twitter using #SocialAdvent as a hashtag. At the end of each day we'll have a look at all the Tweets and pick a daily winner.
Use the link above and print off a full-size version of the #SocialAdvent calendar. It is not too soon to start planning each day .
Pride. Glory. Your school's immortalisation behind a #SocialAdvent window. Everything you could ever want!
For those who took part last Christmas you may notice a few minor changes. We wanted to keep the essence of the challenge the same, since last year was just so successful, but update it to meet the social media demands and trends of 2016.
We have added in a few new challenges that we know you will love:
Last year was incredible fun and highly engaging for the schools who took part. In fact, the entire #SocialAdvent event reached over 2 million people on Twitter!
That is a simply amazing level of engagement you can earn your school, while having lots of fun!
You can read a recap of 2015's #SocialAdvent Challenge here - and make sure you check out the #SocialAdvent 2015 Twitter Moments ⚡️ below.
#SocialAdvent 2015 (pt. 1) #SocialAdvent 2015 (pt. 2)
They can also be viewed on Twitter here:
Today means that there is exactly ONE WEEK to get planning and prepared for the 1st day of the Advent.
Best of luck to everyone. We hope to see old friends and new