Tinchy Stryder Launches Thank A Teacher

June 7, 2011 - PRLog -- London: June 6 2011:

Tinchy – one of the UK’s biggest music stars – is asking students to make themselves a star too by uploading a 20-30 second video to the Thank A Teacher website thanking the person who has made a difference to their time at school.

“I know from my school days what kind of impact a great teacher can make,” says Tinchy Stryder, who was a student at St. Bonaventures School in Newham, London. “I had a maths teacher there – Mr. Ashmore - who influenced me and helped me to be who I am today.
I want to get all the kids behind Thank A  Teacher and name the person who has inspired them the most.”

It’s easy to upload a video-clip to the Thank A Teacher website (http://www.thankateacher.co.uk/win) from your mobile phone, Flip or video camera.  The site will be constantly updated with a regular flow of celebrities thanking their favourite teachers.  If students don’t want to upload a video, they can post a written message about their favourite teacher on the site.

“The Thank A Teacher website is being launched to give young people a voice by enabling them to publicly thank a teacher who has made a significant difference to their lives,” says Caroline Evans, Chief Executive of The Teaching Awards/Thank A Teacher. “Thousands of students will be leaving school this summer and nothing could be a better ‘thank you’ to their teacher than a video-clip about why that teacher has inspired and supported them.  We’ll then send the teacher a personalised thank you card absolutely free of charge which tells them to visit the website and see their thank you message.”

The Thank A Teacher campaign (http://www.thankateacher.co.uk/home) is open to everyone, even parents or past pupils, and will run until the end of January 2012, when teachers named on the site will be put forward for a Teaching Award in October 2012.

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Each year we gather together the list of everyone who has been sent a thank you as part of the 'thank a teacher' campaign and get our crack team of judges to pick out some of the really outstanding ones for us to recognise and celebrate.