The start of a brand school year – new pens, immaculate uniforms, fresh exercise books and the rest – it's a great time for everyone, full of anticipation and energy!  Amongst all the business of writing lesson plans, devising assessment systems, and making sure you're up to date with the latest policies and guidelines; why not make room for a tiny tool that could have a huge impact on your students and their results? Bringing USB pen drives into your classroom could give your kids the edge they need to be their best, and here’s some of the (many) reasons how

1. The Dog Won’t Eat This Homework

We know you've heard every excuse in the book about missing pieces of paper, dogs eating the notebook the homework was carefully completed in and computers freezing at the wrong moment, but here’s something that cuts through all that.  Providing your students with promotional USB flash drives means that it won't get eaten, and even if the computer crashes, the memory stick won’t, so the work is saved and not lost.  The only problem that could be raised is the flash drive itself going missing... which leads us nicely to our second point...

2. Lanyards Keep Them Where You Can Lay Your Hands on Them...

It's true that branded USB pen drives are relatively easy to lose or mislay, but we’ve cleverly omitted this issue through the use of lanyards.  They're a great method of keeping the USB flash drives loaded with homework, worksheets or important reading within arm’s reach at all times.  More and more school are now requiring pupils to carry ID cards with them, usually on lanyards, so the addition of a memory stick would hardly be noticed.  And giving pupils the extra bit of responsibility teaches them great life lessons.  For younger students, the USBs can simply by hung up on its lanyard on their hook, peg, or other special area, so they don't even need to leave the classroom.

3. Legible Work, Delivered in an Environmentally Friendly Manor

Using USB flash drives as a main method for giving and collecting home work can eliminate hours of trying to decipher illegible scrawl on a page.  When you have 30 assignments to get through, you need the process to be as pain free and efficient as possible, so allowing students to type their work is win-win all round.  Our personalised flash drives are inexpensive, easy to use, and environmentally friendly – why not save the cost of paper by encouraging pupils to email, or hand work on the flash drives?

4.  Send Out News to Parents/Carers

The mountain of paper work that needs to go home at the beginning of the school year can make things incredibly expensive for schools – pupil handbooks, sets of guidelines, term outlines, school information – the list goes on.  Why not pop it all onto a USB pen drive and save your printing and paper budget, as well as protecting a few acres of trees as well?  You can also use pen drives throughout the year to send regular bulletins and school updates to parents, alongside reports and many other items. And for parents of potential pupils, school prospectuses can be pre-loaded and handed out in an environmental and sustainable way.

5. Lock and Pre-Load!

Activities, school rules, introductory documents, templates, homework information, research sources, and educational games – you name it, if your students need it, it can be pre-loaded onto a USB memory stick at the production stage, saving you hours of preparation!  If pre-loading is something that works for you, we can even load auto-run presentations, launch games or start-up menus for pupils and parents to work from - basically whatever information you want to include for your class or school.