Text: Joanna Sobel, founder of Brazi6 min read · Brazi Druse Jewelry editorial team
For a card for a teacher, two sentences and a signature are enough: a thank-you for one specific thing, such as explaining fractions until they finally made sense, and a wish. Below are 10 short texts from the whole class, a student, and a parent, each with space to add something personal. Teacher’s Day falls on Wednesday, October 14.
- When: National Education Day, commonly known as Teacher’s Day, is on Wednesday, October 14. Under Article 74 of the Teachers’ Charter, this day is “free from lessons.” If the card is to be official, write “Wishes for National Education Day” at the top.
- Formula: two sentences and a signature; in each text, our example appears in italics in square brackets, e.g. [the trip to Wieliczka]. Enter your own example in its place.
- From the whole class: everyone signs, and the youngest children can draw a picture next to their name.
- For those who don’t teach: text 10 is for the school secretary, caretaker, and kitchen staff. The law calls this day a holiday for all education employees.
How to write a card: two sentences and a signature
Thank them for one thing that this particular teacher did: a lesson, a trip, or a conversation after the bell. Tie the wish to the same thing if possible.
“Thank you for all the lessons” could apply to any teacher in the country. “Thank you for the biology lesson by the river, when we went out with magnifying glasses and jars” applies to just one teacher, who will immediately know which lesson you mean.
Don’t thank a teacher for a high mark on a quiz, because it sounds like a transaction. It’s better to thank them for their effort or for a specific lesson.
The text in italics in square brackets is our example: replace it with what happened in your class.
Wishes from the whole class
For a homeroom teacher after several years
Short: “Thank you for all the years with you, and most of all for [the trip to Wieliczka, from which we all returned together]. We wish you that your next class will be as lucky to have you as we were.”
For a mathematics teacher
Thoughtful: “Thank you for explaining [equations with two unknowns] to us as many times as necessary, so no one was afraid to raise their hand. We wish you a year in which everything works out perfectly.”
For a Polish teacher
Thoughtful: “Thank you for [The Little Prince], which, thanks to you, even those who usually stop at the summary read to the end. We wish you evenings with a book that no one will have to assign.”
For a PE teacher
With humor: “Thank you for [the 600-meter run], which we complained about all week and then bragged about at home. We wish you that this year every ball after class will make it back to the equipment room.”
A student’s wishes
A poem for Teacher’s Day from the youngest children, from preschool and grades 1–3
Short: “For [kasztany] on the windowsill,
the most beautiful in the whole world,
we thank you with all our might.
May your day be a pleasant one!”
[grupa Biedronki]
Instead of [kasztany], write what is lying on your windowsill, such as acorns or leaves, and underneath, the name of the preschool group or class. If one child is giving the card, change “thank you” from the plural to the singular.
From a student, with a wink
Humorous: “Thank you for honestly announcing every [history quiz] a day in advance, even when the whole class pretended not to hear. I wish you an electronic register that never logs you out halfway through entering a grade.”
From a student in their final year: eighth grade or the final year of secondary school
Thoughtful: “This is my last Teachers’ Day at this school, so thank you for [the conversation after class about choosing a school]. I wish you students who will write the same thing in a few years.”
Wishes from a parent
From a parent to the female homeroom teacher
Short: “Thank you for [the phone call during the first week when Staś didn’t want to enter the classroom]. I wish you a year in which every call from parents brings good news.”
From the Parents’ Council or the class representatives
Formal: “On National Education Day, we thank you for [organizing the September picnic], which the children talked about at home for a week. We wish you a successful school year and parents you can always count on.”
Below: The Parents’ Council and the school’s name, or the names of the class representatives. If the representatives are writing to one person, replace “you” with “you, ma’am” or “you, sir.”
For the school office, caretaker, and kitchen
Article 74 of the Teachers’ Charter recognizes this day as the “holiday of all education workers.” You can take separate cards to the school office, cloakroom, and kitchen.
For the caretaker, with versions for the school office and kitchen
Short: “Thank you for [the cloakroom being opened every time someone comes back for their PE bag]. We wish you peaceful breaks and locks that never jam.”
For the school office: “Thank you for [an ID card issued in one day]. We wish you a printer that works the first time.” For the kitchen: “Thank you for [pancakes on Fridays]. We wish you plates that always come back empty.”
How to sign a card from the whole class
Every student signs the card from the class in their own handwriting. Children who cannot write yet draw a small picture next to their name, and an adult adds the name. With the whole class signing, there are quite a few signatures, so write the message on one side of the card and collect the signatures on the other.
Wednesday is a day off from lessons, so the school and class decide when to give the card.
World Teachers’ Day falls on October 5, while Poland celebrates it on October 14, the anniversary of the establishment of the Commission of National Education. The international holiday has been observed since 1994, marking the anniversary of the 1966 adoption of the International Labour Organization and UNESCO recommendation concerning the status of teachers.
A card and a small gift for the envelope
For the whole class, choose a small gift with symbolic value, and find gift ideas in the article Teacher's Day gift: 5 ideas from PLN 69.
You can add something small of your own to the card: a cord Happiness Bracelet will fit with it in one envelope, without a box. The easiest way to choose a model is by the cord color. The navy sapphire comes on burgundy, the brown smoky quartz on khaki, and the single gray labradorite on graphite. Smoky quartz also suits a teacher, while labradorite is a good choice for someone who does not wear colorful jewelry.
There are silver or gold-plated silver beads next to the stones and at the ends of the cord, and the size is universal. Each bracelet costs PLN 79 in both versions, silver and gold-plated. The gold-plated version is shown in the photos.
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How we checked this. We sourced the holiday date and quotations from Article 74 from the consolidated text of the Teachers' Charter (Journal of Laws 2026, item 515) on the Sejm's website. We sourced the date and origins of World Teachers' Day from the UNESCO website (unesco.org, “World Teachers' Day”). We wrote the greeting texts ourselves and compared them with Google results from October 2 so they would not repeat ready-made formulas. We took the cord colors, materials, and bracelet prices from the product pages on brazi.pl as of the publication date.