This Teacher Welcomed Students On The First Day Of School With A Poem And Goodie Bag

The first day of school is almost always intimidating for students. There’s a new group of people you’ll have to interact with after a long summer layoff. You’ve got your new clothes on, your new class schedule, new classroom, new teachers, the entire experience can be a bit overwhelming.

Some teachers are oblivious to this fact or they’ve just been desensitized to it after years of the same old song and dance. To them, it’s nothing new.

But that’s not true of all teachers. Some not only take into consideration just how scary that big first day can be for some students and they decide to start things off on the right foot.

Like this teacher who gave all of her new students a goodie bag and fun poem to welcome them to her class.

The Fourth-Grade teacher’s awesome gesture was put up on her school’s Facebook page, where people applauded her kindness.

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Jemille Malouf, Principal of the Bowen State School in Queensland, Australia said in an interview with Mamamia that the goodie bags and motivational poem received such a positive response that teachers are now recommending it to other teachers. It’s gotten so popular, that other schools have adopted the process.

“We don’t know, a lot of the time, what’s going on in children’s lives at home.

But what we can do is create an environment when they’re at school that they feel safe and secure and that they have someone that they trust that they can come to.

We’re not just teaching academically, which is what it used to be, but we’re actually doing a whole range of other things now as teachers,” Malouf told Mamamia.