Tea and coffee

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How does it work in your primary school? Does school pay and buy it or do staff? What about the milk?

Staff make a termly payment to cover cost of milk tea coffee and sugar. Various variations of payment available for people who don't take milk etc. Some staff do their own thing and bring in separately. No school fund contribution at all. Small Primary.

I never worked in a school where tea and coffee was provided. Just a mad rush at break time while everyone tries to use the one kettle at the same time, and hoping no one had stolen the milk I had brought in because theirs had run out.

I no longer teach. I temp in an office where there is free, unlimited filter coffe, earl grey tea, PJ tips tea, fruit teas and a water cooler with lovely ice cold water. I can go and get myself a drink any time I like. No queues at the kettle.

On my first day i asked what I needed to put into the contribution tin. They laughed.

I teach secondary, but in my department, everyone just kind of buys their own, but also shares with people who drink similar, if that makes sense. So I’ll take a jar of decaff in, when it’s finished, my colleague will replace it, then I will… we’ve never discussed it. It just happens 😂

Coffee, tea and fruit tea available in the staff room and milk in the fridge also provided by the school. We also have coffee machines in the 6th form lounge which vend free coffee for staff and students. A state secondary.

Both schools I've worked in provided basic tea + coffee for free. (1 state 1 independent)
Current school also has a filter coffee machine which is free.

Any school I’ve been in have had a staff fund that everyone contributes to and tea, coffee, milk, squash are covered as well as dishwasher tablets, flowers if someone is seriously unwell or bereaved etc.

We used to contribute to a fund which really shocked me after working in offices where tea and coffee were always provided for free. The one thing new head has done which I like is to provide free tea, coffee and milk.

I've taught in six schools, in the three small ones we paid into a coffee fund, in the three big ones it has been bring your own coffee and milk in. I'd love to be in a school where milk was provided...

My current school provides it free (state primary) but all past schools have charged a termly fee.

State primary - free milk but bring own coffee/tea (we used to have a milk fund, but the SLT decided that the staff wellbeing/retention impact of providing free milk made it a financial no-brainer 😂). Private secondary - free filter coffee, biscuits, fruit, newspapers etc (ditto reason, just different budgets!).

My current school provide teabags, sugar, coffee and milk. Most schools I haved worked in do. It makes such a difference. We also have a heated tap so constant boiling water.