Secret Friends

[Guest]

Some years ago I worked in a school which had a 'secret friends' ... activity/scheme (not sure what to call it!). It worked like this ... all staff put their names (in an envelope) into a hat and then each took an envelope and kept their colleague's name secret. Over the year they would do 'nice' things for their secret friend e.g. a box of chocolates, a bottle of wine or just a little card to say 'something nice'; they might bake them a cake, or bring them produce from the garden - anything that would be appreciated or make their secret friend smile! This would not be 'openly' given but labelled and placed somewhere the 'friend' would find it. At Christmas, the identity of the person was revealed! I remember, one member of staff put a chicken and prepared vegetables in the fridge - ready for him to put in the oven when he got home; he so often couldn't be bothered to cook and lived on ready meals!

The school I worked in was a large primary school and it worked really well - does anyone do this in a smaller nursery/pre-school setting and, if so, does it work well? Good idea or not?

[Panders]

I think it is a wonderful idea - unfortunately for us, 5 staff one large hall, be pretty difficult to sneak anything in unnoticed but I will give it some serious thought

[Fredbear]

Oh i do love the idea, but we are also in one large hall so i think it would be very difficult to execute, but will certainly give it some thought.

Thank you.

[Froglet]

I think it's a lovely idea as long as you all get on pretty well - imagine if you 'got' the person you found really difficult for the whole year - secret santa as a one off can be hard enough!

[emmajess]

Yes, we do this, but just for the last week of term before Christmas. A different version of Secret Santa, really. It's great because it gives you a boost in that last exhausted week!