Searching for a superhero... teacher

Now in its 7th year, and with more than 13,000 entries received last year, the Woolies and MySchool Teachers' Day Competition is one of the country’s largest organised campaigns to help South African schools commemorate the UN’s World Teachers' Day on 5 October.

“The main aim is to inspire greater awareness of and gratitude for the role that teachers play in shaping the lives of our future generations. South Africa is one of many countries in the world where the phenomenal potential of the impact of teachers is still not commensurate with their status in society,” says GM of the MySchool fundraising programme, Pieter Twine.

With the theme, ‘Tell us why your teacher is a superhero’ the 2017 competition empowers learners to tell their life stories about the teachers who have made a difference to them. Learners enter by writing a 200-word motivation about the teacher in their lives who has been a superhero.

In the first stage of the competition, eight regional finalists are chosen with array of prizes awarded to each winning learner, teacher and school. In stage two, the eight finalist superhero teachers from the four primary and four high schools are treated to an all-expenses paid weekend away with their partners in Cape Town. After interviews with the panel of independent judges, three teachers will be selected as the national winners of the competition and receive the final grand prizes.

Entries can be submitted via email to az.oc.shtrowloow@dtm or by fax on +27 (0)21 447 6480 or by post to Teacher’s Day Awards, Matriarch Offices, Unit 1 & 2, Cnr Anson and Collingwood Road, Observatory, 7235 before 1 September 2017. Learner’s submissions must include the name of the nominated teacher, the name of their school, the name and grade of the learner and the region in which the school is located as per the competition’s T&Cs.