A few weeks ago I had a phone call to say that a parcel had arrived for me in reception. I’d thought it was just something my hubbie had ordered from eBay and could wait – the new beard trimmer he had ordered a week or so before (that we were both desperate for!) had arrived and there wasn’t anything else that I was expecting.  So my parcel sat there until one of the other teachers in the team happened to pick it up for me.

It definitely wasn’t any more sample text books (I think we now have one of every new book being published for the new GCSE … now all we need to do is to find another 31 people with the same set of samples and we could each have a class set!) and so, as you do when a curious package arrives, we gathered around this curious box and I was BLOWN AWAY. If you’re on Twitter you may have seen #Teacher5adaybuddybox set up by @MrsHumanities. The website with more details about the initiative can be found -> HERE. Basically, the idea stems from the #Teacher5aday initiative aimed at raising the profile of teacher wellbeing. The buddy box idea works by matching up “buddies” with the one intention of making each other smile by sending each other “buddy boxes” throughout the year.

As I found out there are also surprise nominations and I was the lucky recipient of one of these! If you were the person who nominated me … THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! It really made my day! In fact the emergency chocolates didn’t make it past the end of break time! I have to say that Seager is a little put out that he didn’t get one … telling him that getting to work with us every day, funnily enough, didn’t cut the mustard when I tried that line with him!

I really appreciated the package which was full of all sorts of goodies, each individually wrapped with little messages on them – the cold remedy sweets came in handy too! I’ve already prepared another box to “pay it forward” which will hopefully be winging its way to another lucky recipient in the new few weeks. What a fabulous idea!

buddy-boxPS: Just read that bit about the beard trimmer again! So, to clarify I was desperate for HIM to use it! I DO NOT HAVE A BEARD! Just in case you were wondering!