Occasion HandbookThank you 14 examples

Thank You Notes from a Teacher to Students and Parents

Written the other way round — from the front of the classroom. These get kept by families for years, which is worth knowing before you write thirty of them.

To a class at the end of the year

  1. 1 Thank you for a very good year. You asked better questions than any class I have taught and I mean that.
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  2. 2 Thank you for putting up with me. It has been a genuine pleasure.
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  3. 3 Thank you for your hard work this year. Go and have a proper summer.
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  4. 4 Thank you for the noise, the questions and the one genuinely excellent joke.
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To an individual student

These are kept. Say the specific thing you saw.

  1. 5 Thank you for the card. You have worked harder than anyone this year and I hope somebody has told you.
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  2. 6 Thank you. Watching you go from the back row to the front one has been the best part of my year.
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  3. 7 Thank you for the gift, and for always being the one who put the chairs up.
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  4. 8 Thank you. You should be proud of what you did this year.
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To parents

  1. 9 Thank you for the card and the gift. It has been a pleasure to teach her.
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  2. 10 Thank you for the support at home this year. It shows in the classroom and it makes an enormous difference.
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  3. 11 Thank you for your kindness this year, and for the very generous gift.
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From a student teacher or on placement

  1. 12 Thank you for having me in your classroom. I learned more in six weeks than in a year of lectures.
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  2. 13 Thank you to the department for the placement and for the honesty in the feedback.
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  3. 14 Thank you, all of you, for making a nervous trainee feel like staff.
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Questions people actually ask

What do you write in a thank you note to a student?

Name the specific improvement or effort you saw. These notes are kept by families for years, so the one detail you include is the one that gets remembered.