Invite Alumni to Homecoming and honor the Anniversary at Halftime.
Have successful alumni come back and speak to students about their professional lives.
Have a schoolwide celebration, where students walk through the doors and every 50th student wins a prize.
Have a parade that leads to a carnival where students, faculty, and alumni can play games.
Sell bricks to students, families, faculty and alumni to create an artistic piece to commemorate the anniversary.
Arrange students to make a “50” for the picture.
Time capsule for the current class to bury and come back for the next anniversary celebration.
Formal dinner for alumni, students and faculty.
Have a speaker present a slideshow of pictures and notable moments in school history throughout the years.
Decorate classrooms according to decades that have passed.
Ask alumni to bring yearbooks to compare their yearbooks with the students today.
Have students take on faculty in sporting events such as basketball or volleyball.
Start a Facebook page for Alumni to post any pictures or memories they want to while also giving them a place to connect with old friends.
Create a magazine to honor and commemorate the 50 years of good things the school has accomplished.
Plant 50 trees, or any other kind of plant or flower to honor the school.
Decorate the school according to the 50th year celebration.
Create a mural to honor what the school has accomplished or embodies.
Tea and light breakfast for Alumni to catch up with each other and share some memories.
Ask students to predict what may change within the next 50 years.
Easy way to formally end a 50th anniversary celebration.
For the first 50 days, each day could be a year in schools history, where the students can learn about something that happened within the school that year.
Art classes could create 50 year themed art projects to display.
Math classes that include a 50 in the problem or answer.
The list could be anything but to have the class cooperate to come up with 50 things they are thankful for would be a good start to a celebration.