Here at TPTC, most of us are former teachers and school staff and it’s so important to us to always keep teachers at the very heart of what we do. That’s why we're called The Positive Teacher Company – we’re all about making teachers happy and bringing that positive energy whenever can! So we’ve started a new impact project to thank some wonderful teachers and give back to our fantastic community: Staffroom Surprise!
Staffroom Surprise is all about organising treats and goodies to show gratitude to teachers in different schools across the country. We recently told you about Staffroom Surprise on our social media and asked you to nominate a school you think deserves to be picked next, and we were blown away by the response! We had nominations for over 700 schools, and the nominations were incredibly thoughtful messages of support and thanks for the teachers and staff. If you have a school you’d like to nominate, you can do that here.
Our first Staffroom Surprise saw us visit Mr P’s school – many of you may know him as Mr P ICT! For Easter, we decked out the staffroom with all kinds of goodies, including our Staff Appreciation Postcards, which we also had made into a (pretty huge) sign! We included lots of chocolate treats like eggs and mini eggs, as well as some fab stationery. Mr P said, “it’s really exciting to be able to do this for our staff, they work so hard and are amazing teachers and it’s just nice for them to see how much they’re appreciated.”
It was great to be able to visit a school and help to spread the feeling of gratefulness and make them feel appreciated for their hard work. We love to celebrate the amazing work schools do to make sure their teachers and staff are happy, so we were really excited to visit Nicky for our next staffroom surprise, which wasn’t just a surprise for the staff, but for Nicky too!
Nicky (find her online here) is a great example of a headteacher who really supports her staff. Our Founder Rachel says that when she thinks about supportive headteachers, she thinks of Nicky first. We’ll be sharing more about what Nicky does to support her staff over the May half term on our social media, so make sure you’re following us so you don’t miss it!
We know that happy teachers make happy children, and Nicky does too. So since her school was hosting a parents’ evening that night, we surprised the staff with a big pile of Dominos pizza to give them a bit of fuel! We were so happy to be able to visit the school, Nicky, and her staff in person and bring them some treats and stationery.
We love finding ways to give back to schools and to our TPTC community. In the past we’ve done things like the Classroom Makeover, which you can read about here, and we’re so excited to see where Staffroom Surprise takes us. For us, making teachers happy is the whole point.
