Mumsnet users share the times teachers have gone out of their way to help their children with Sanctuary Spa

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School is not always plain sailing, and as parents you rely on teachers to guide your child through both the good times and the hard times. There are lots of teachers that go that extra mile to help your child, with the effect often having long-lasting impact. With this in mind, we thought it would be great to hear all your experiences of teachers who have gone out of their way to help your children, and the impression this left on both you and your child.

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How has a teacher stepped in and helped your child at school? Which challenges did they help your child to overcome? What positive effect did this have on you and your child? How did you show the teacher how much you appreciated their help?

Whichever ways teachers have helped your child, share your experiences and post them on the thread below. Everyone who does so will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

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Our dds nursery teachers are wonderful, so kind and attentive, she has settled in great because of them. They make us parents feel like our child is special to them.

My daughters teacher in year six identified that she was very bright but was struggling in her subjects. He organised one on one sessions for her in maths, English and science and she far exceeded her predicted grades by the end of the year. In one year she went from being one of the worst performing students to one of the best and was in the top sets for all her subjects when she starts secondary school, where she has remained. He identified that she had the ability she just needed a push in the right direction xx

My daughters teacher in YR 6 knew that DD was struggling with PE and put her PE kit on to do it with DD. It really encouraged her.

my son's teacher knew i was really struggling financially and that being a single parent had noone else to help out. When she arranged a school trip to somewhere special that was costing quite a bit more than the usual trips (£20) she knew I would struggle and not wanting my son to miss out, she paid for him to go. She'll never truly understand how immensely grateful I am for that, I would have done whatever it took to get the money together for him to go but she saved me that stress.

My daughter has suffered with terrible anxiety since starting school. It was so bad it manifested into physical symptoms and she was admitted to hospital a few times with stomach issues.
Her teacher was AMAZING. She visited her, left her fun activities to do so she wasn't out of the loop when she returned and when she did go back she couldn't of been more supportive.
My daughter has just finished her first year at school on such a high, a stark difference to how we started and most of this was down to her outstanding reception teacher.

To say thank you I bought her a voucher for a local coffee house and some chocolate but I also wrote a letter to the head teacher and the board of governers detailing how amazing she was. Once she found out she told me it meant so much as parents normally on contact them to complain about things.

Some of these have made me so emotional. I can't join in as my children have had awful teachers who belittled and ignored them and the ones that didn't just did what they had to do.

I can think of cases in my own childhood when teachers went above and beyond for me. But not really experienced this with my own children. Sorry.

My sons teacher is a star I suffered a brain tumour in November and he went out his way to distract my son and take his mind of it, I spent a whole month in hospital and my son was so overwhelmed by how his teacher was with him ❤️ I truly couldn’t ask for a better teacher

My sons teacher has been brilliant this year. She’s given lessons to parents in small groups to explain how they are teaching letters and sounds and maths. It was great to understand all the different phrases my son had been talking about and which I had no clue about!

My DDs' school has been great for both my girls. My older DD is a confident girl who really enjoys drama, and she loved being picked for a main role in their last performance. Whereas my younger DD is quieter and needs encouragement to come out of her shell. Her teacher has made sure that he says lots of encouraging things and tries to give her confidence in her own abilities. I like that their school takes each child on their own terms and deals with their different personalities in the most appropriate ways.

My DS struggled enormously with mocks/exams and worried us all enormously with his behaviours. The SEN teacher at school took him under her wing, gave him all sorts of coping strategies, made appointments for him to pop in to see her 3 days a week for a chat/drink & biscuit with an open door at any point, recommended self help books for him and has been his rock through this whole terrible time. She has also taken the time to call me and email anything she felt I needed to know. Neither of us would have got through this time without her. A real gem!

At nursery, the key worker practitioner will always offer my son extra hugs when I have said he is feeling poorly.

Ds1 was very shy, his teachers (including support staff) have been wonderful, patient, kind, encouraging and have built such good relationships with him to help him to come out of his shell. I'm so grateful

My DD's teacher brought some of her own books into school for the kids to borrow and read. Some were part of hardback book sets and would have been expensive. For a leaving gift we bought her a book token.

Supporting DD through a bereavement, amazing!

DS’s reception teacher was great. He was very shy and really reluctant to speak up in class at first but she worked really closely with us to understand how to get the best out of him and weirdly she said she was really proud the first time she turned round to tell some noisy boy off it and she realised it was him .

Can't think of anything particularly positive about my daughter's mainstream school but the Teacher and TAs in my son's special school are angels, don't forget the TAs in your 'Teachers are great' view!

We're lucky to have teachers who've gone above and beyond in planning learning that has really engaged the whole class so that they're so busy having fun they don't realise how much they're learning along the way.

When my DS was about 5, we moved house and it meant he had to get the school bus on his own. I felt so sad for him being so little but it wasn’t too long of a trip. It came to pick up time and the bus never showed up. I was so worried. I called the school but there was no reply. Standing there for another hour not knowing what to do, I called a taxi to get me to the school. Just then a car pulled up and his teacher had brought him back! Apparently he was the only one who needed the bus that day so the driver had decided not to bother!
I still can’t believe it to this day.
I’m so grateful to the teacher. I don’t know what would’ve happened otherwise!

Thanks all for your comments - the winner of the prize draw is @Strongecoffeeismydrug

Day in day out kindness but also the ability to manage the class and some challenging behaviours, allowing all the children to learn.

I've only just seen I've won and I think I've replied correctly. Thankyou x

My second daughter was born at 30 weeks and had developmental delay particularly with speech her nursery teacher worked so hard with her and with such patience. So much that when it came to her year one phonics test she scored full marks when just two years ago she had such a bad stammer she couldn’t string words together.

We've had some lovely teachers over the years, teachers in general always go above and beyond - a hard job.

DD teacher brought her own books into school for the kids to borrow. It was such a kind thing to do.