To email the teacher

Princesspollyyy · 2025-12-18T08:20:36+00:00

my daughters (secondary school GCSE year) teacher is really good, very dedicated and committed and just an excellent teacher and lovely person. Would it be weird to send her an email thanking her for all her hard work and wishing her a lovely Christmas?

CrispySquid · 18/12/2025 08:22

That's an utterly lovely idea. I'm a teacher and if/whenever I receive words like these from Parents, it would absolutely make my week. What a thoughtful thing to do. The teacher will be over the moon.

Hohohohohohoho2025 · 18/12/2025 08:24

No it would be lovely. Cc in the school office and ask them to forward it to the headteacher.

Wishihadanalgorithm · 18/12/2025 08:24

Please do! At this point in the year, teachers are on their knees.

Cards and presents are lovely but a properly heartfelt and appreciative email would be worth more than anything!

LemaxObsessive · 18/12/2025 08:24

Yeah I’d see that as a bit sucking up-ish and an attempt to get your child ahead in some way. Say it at the end of the school year with a thank you card. Can you imagine if every parent sent an email? His/Her inbox would be full!

IndolentCat · 18/12/2025 08:25

Please do that, it’s always wonderful to receive that sort of genuine, heartfelt feedback. Especially at this time of year at the end of the hardest term.

Hohohohohohoho2025 · 18/12/2025 08:25

LemaxObsessive · 18/12/2025 08:24

Yeah I’d see that as a bit sucking up-ish and an attempt to get your child ahead in some way. Say it at the end of the school year with a thank you card. Can you imagine if every parent sent an email? His/Her inbox would be full!

As an ex teacher I disagree with is completely. I wouldn’t have seen it that way and they will get very few positive emails so it will really stand out.

DreamingofBrie · 18/12/2025 08:26

I’m a teacher and this term has been hard! I’d appreciate any email with that sentiment.

IndolentCat · 18/12/2025 08:26

LemaxObsessive · 18/12/2025 08:24

Yeah I’d see that as a bit sucking up-ish and an attempt to get your child ahead in some way. Say it at the end of the school year with a thank you card. Can you imagine if every parent sent an email? His/Her inbox would be full!

God no. Completely disagree with this opinion.

TheZeppo · 18/12/2025 08:27

I’d be so happy to get that kind of email. It’s been a long term and it’s nice to be appreciated!

LemaxObsessive · 18/12/2025 08:27

Hohohohohohoho2025 · 18/12/2025 08:24

No it would be lovely. Cc in the school office and ask them to forward it to the headteacher.

🙄😆😆 As if they don’t have enough to do! There’d be an awful lot of eye rolling going on if they received a suck up attempt a matter of months before GCSEs and will be judging massively. Sorry OP but it’s got elements of bribery imo.

HarrietandJim · 18/12/2025 08:29

Retired teacher here - do it, you’ll make their day!

sesquipedalian · 18/12/2025 08:30

OP, I think it’s a lovely idea - teaching is hard work, and who doesn’t want to know that their efforts are appreciated by parents? Go for it!

oustedbymymate · 18/12/2025 08:30

As a teacher I would be really touched at this. Please do it.

Myfridgeiscool · 18/12/2025 08:30

I think this is a lovely idea. It’s always nice to hear about the positive impact of your efforts, makes an incredibly difficult and usually thankless job worthwhile! Definitely include the headteacher.

Lulu1919 · 18/12/2025 08:33

Please send
I'm a teacher and I've had a couple of those kind of emails in the last ten years
Makes up for all the rubbish ones I get ....ie why isn't Bob in the top set with his friends or why didn't Mary get a speaking part in the Christmas service ...

Gerbera55 · 18/12/2025 08:37

LemaxObsessive · 18/12/2025 08:24

Yeah I’d see that as a bit sucking up-ish and an attempt to get your child ahead in some way. Say it at the end of the school year with a thank you card. Can you imagine if every parent sent an email? His/Her inbox would be full!

And what a lovely full inbox it would be to work their way through!

Emails like this are genuinely appreciated and not at all seen as sucking up.

echt · 18/12/2025 08:38

LemaxObsessive · 18/12/2025 08:24

Yeah I’d see that as a bit sucking up-ish and an attempt to get your child ahead in some way. Say it at the end of the school year with a thank you card. Can you imagine if every parent sent an email? His/Her inbox would be full!

Jesus. How do you work that one out?

How mean-spirited.

Ignore @Princesspollyyy.

StripedVase · 18/12/2025 08:40

do it, because it's lovely - & then take this down before the joyless "sucking up" accusers become an unstoppable skeleton army of negativity & rob you of your will to live 🤣🤣

Lightuptheroom · 18/12/2025 08:43

Do it, make sure you put thank you in the subject line and cc the head teacher

Pigeonpair1 · 18/12/2025 08:44

Honestly, why the cynicism? Everybody, no matter what their profession/role in life is appreciative of a note telling them that they are doing a good job. I work in a school myself and this sort of note is appreciated more than you can know. So many parents send nasty, snide,demanding emails and it’s lovely to get a nice one. I work in a big shared office and when we get a nice email from a parent, we read them out as they mean so much! They are never received with cynicism.

Pigeonpair1 · 18/12/2025 08:46

LemaxObsessive · 18/12/2025 08:27

🙄😆😆 As if they don’t have enough to do! There’d be an awful lot of eye rolling going on if they received a suck up attempt a matter of months before GCSEs and will be judging massively. Sorry OP but it’s got elements of bribery imo.

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Sorry, but you are wrong here, school staff receive so many negative emails from parents that most people delight in forwarding on a nice one to their colleagues (I work in a school).

sendismylife · 18/12/2025 08:48

Definitely do it! I still have some print outs of similar emails from 20+ years ago!

Boutonnière · 18/12/2025 08:58

Pigeonpair1 · 18/12/2025 08:44

Honestly, why the cynicism? Everybody, no matter what their profession/role in life is appreciative of a note telling them that they are doing a good job. I work in a school myself and this sort of note is appreciated more than you can know. So many parents send nasty, snide,demanding emails and it’s lovely to get a nice one. I work in a big shared office and when we get a nice email from a parent, we read them out as they mean so much! They are never received with cynicism.

My DD is a secondary teacher and she has shared appreciative notes and emails from parents - and 6th form leavers - with me ( just the text, no identifiers ) . She was very touched indeed that someone would take the time to do that.

What sort of ‘bribery’ does the unpleasant and cynical poster who suggested that have in mind ?

TinyTeachr · 18/12/2025 09:03

Do it. I loved the ones I've had, they are few and far between.

Be specific if you can, not just a generic "theyre great", and copy in their line manager if you know who it is. I once got pulled aside by a deputy head at briefing. I wondered why and he showed me an email he'd had about me, detailing exactly how wonderful the parent thought I was for going above and beyond for both of their children. They gave really specific details and the deputy head said he hadnt known how much support I was giving them and thanked me. I smiled at all my classes for the rest of the day. And the next day my head of department told me the deputy head had showed him the email too. Honestly the best Christmas gift any parent from school has ever given me.

And yes, the deputy head forwarded it to me and I have it printed out in my top drawer and when I know im about to have a horrific Y11 parents evening with certain parents trying to blame me for anything and everything (sadly there are always a couple) then it look at it and remeber that there will be others that really appreciate the time and effort I put into their child and that they really notice the extra effort and its worth it.

Zonder · 18/12/2025 09:04

Please do it.

Whenever we get anything like that we share it with our boss and it is included in our records.