First impressions are crucial - be confident, reassuring and polite on the first day of school!
Steps
Step 1. Wear clean, well-ironed clothes, and don't forget to be tidy but also trendy. If you don't know the school dress rules yet, do your best. Think rationally about what will not be allowed, such as miniskirts or shorts that are too short. Try to have tidy hair and nails, and brush your teeth. Before school starts, try to get a manicure and pedicure. You can also do them at home, but try to choose a discreet nail polish, suitable for the school context.
Step 2. Prepare all school materials
If you don't have a list of school supplies yet, bring a pen and paper with you. Also bring a book to read in case the teacher asks you to just be quiet so you'll have something to do.
Step 3. Pay attention to teachers
Listen to everything they say and write down the rules or their homework policy. If they ask questions, try raising your hand so you will be remembered as a person participating in class activities.
Step 4. Behave in a friendly way, try not to be shy
Otherwise people will think that you are boring and that you never talk. Even if none of your friends are in class with you, try to socialize with someone you think you can make friends with. If you don't like your mate, be nice anyway. Don't start rivalries on the first day of school.
Step 5. Don't talk when you shouldn't
Be respectful when others speak.
Step 6. Turn off your phone and DO NOT use it in class
Step 7. Make sure you know where the parking spaces are and enter them
Memorize where your class is so you don't get late.
Step 8. Show enthusiasm and try not to look bored
Step 9. When you enter the classroom, find a seat right away - preferably near or in front of the desk
That way you will show that you are interested and want to learn.
Step 10. When you enter the classroom, be confident and try to appear comfortable, but don't be haughty, rude or arrogant
That way you wouldn't have a good start at all.
Step 11. Smile
Step 12. Show your talents
Do not be shy. Show your best talents to friends and classmates. If you have a good voice, pick a song that has been a hit over the summer and sing it to your friends on the first day of school.
- Do not overdo it. For example, if you force your peers to listen to you while you sing, they will get bored. Don't sing if they don't ask or they'll think you just want to show off and won't attract a lot of sympathy.
- Showing your talents could also lead to jealousies among your peers. If they envy you, behave normally. Don't be rude or you could make things worse and make enemies.
Advice
- Bring mints to keep your breath fresh.
- If you don't know the school rules yet, play it safe. You probably can't run in the corridors or skateboard on the school property.
- Style your hair for school - you will feel great and look good. Cut them off a couple of weeks before school starts so you can get used to them in time. The worst thing you can do is go to the hairdresser the day before. It's a big risk: you may hate the new cut, and therefore your self-esteem will suffer, or it may be terribly bad, and as we have already said the first impression is very important!
- Make new friends and have fun!
- Be sincere. If you chat with someone, don't make up stories, it will make a bad impression on the person you are trying to make friends with.
- Try to make as many friends as possible, but make sure they have a good influence on you.
- A good way to break the ice is to ask what they did during the summer. Do not be shy.
- Every so often, during the summer, you go to visit the school to know for sure where to go.
- Don't play pranks on teachers. You may think it is a way to break the ice; instead they will see you as someone who doesn't want to do anything, making the student-teacher relationship more difficult from the start.
- Watch the news. Teachers will probably talk about the most important events.
Warnings
- Don't rely only on your first impressions of students and teachers, especially when describing them to someone else. You will have to work on it all year round, so try to get along with it and don't spread gossip.
- Don't swear, you'd make a bad impression on everyone, not just the teachers.
- Remember to always do all your homework.
- Never, ever, ever show a fake personality. Being yourself is the best impression you can make. Not only will people believe you are fake, but you won't feel comfortable with yourself either.
- If you don't take notes during class, you could get in trouble and lose interest in the subject matter.
- If you take a note on the first day - don't make a scene. You could make things worse. Try not to take any, however.
- Some schools don't allow you to bring candy. Try not to have any with you unless you are sure you can.
