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When creating your child’s portfolio, you may wish to include:
Personal MISSION statement
- Personal vision or mission statement
Academics
- Educational goals
- Include evidence of your child’s academic abilities and strengths. Possible skills to highlight include critical thinking, communication, etc. Supporting documents may include former academic projects, papers,activities or assignments.
- Outstanding examples of your child’s academic accomplishments. Supporting documents may include transcripts, course descriptions, syllabi, sample paper or schoolwork.
 Leadership Experience
- - Club and organization involvement
- - Conferences, workshops and camps
- - Committee Work (on or off school grounds—include special roles on committees)
Community Service learning and Engagement
- Service-Learning projects and activities
- Volunteer work
- Service-Projects
Honours, Awards and Recommendations
- Awards received
- Newspaper or other media coverage
- Nominations
- Letters of recommendation from teachers, clubs/organisations
Personal Talents, Abilities and interests
- Examples of fine and performing arts involvement and/or work
- Participation in sports
- Other hobbies and interests
If you would like to go a step further after this exercise, you may create specific sections for each interest, talent or niche ability.
A final suggestion
Be creative! Your child’s portfolio should be both pleasant to read and appropriate to his or her field of interest. Do not forget to include your child’s photograph as well – sometimes a picture paints a thousand words!
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