And are they as good as they used to be?

by Abwettar

41 comments

  1. My favourite one is the Star of the Week in “litterecy”.

    Outstanding.

  2. My mum is a headteacher and she gets stickers custom made with her name on to give out to the very good students. Proof you got it from the top!

  3. That ‘Brilli-Ant’ sticker just hit me with a wave of nostalgia I wasn’t prepared for!

  4. We used to give a ‘medal’ on a small wooden mount to the best performing child of the week, on a Friday. They kept it at home for the week until it was re-presented to someone else the following Friday.

  5. I don’t remember anything like this from my primary school days. Either my school didn’t have them, or I was never ‘good’ enough to receive any. I suspect both of those statements are true.

  6. Yes, my children come home covered in them and are always delighted to have them

    They’re also still quite pun-based

  7. I was a long time before 2000 (started the 1972-3 year)… we didn’t have stickers at all. But we did have stars. You had to lick ‘em yourself though. We also had an apple for 2p & free milk, until……

  8. Scratch-N-Sniff marshmallow scent. It was the greatest reward I could get

  9. I would like grown up stickers for my job please. “Put up with a prick”, “Was very patient with a thicko”, “Didn’t scream in a 3 hour meeting” etc.

  12. My friend is a teacher and has custom made her own stickers this year using a cricut machine, her and the children love them!

    Also I think I remember the brilli -ant!

  14. The elephant and ant stickers have awoken a long dormant memory!

  15. Yep. My youngest came home with one last week for being the “best tidier” and I almost fell out of my seat. 

  16. Star of the day is a sticker. The over and above award is a metal pin

  17. My kid comes home with so many stickers some days I can barely see her uniform.

  21. Yup. In fact my son got one today saying ‘I’m routing for you’ featuring a couple of root vegetables.

  22. When I was a supply teacher, I always had a stash of stickers as bribes… I mean, rewards 🤣

  23. There are fewer staff that give them out but stickers still go down well in secondary schools. 

  24. I’m still bitter over the face that a girl in my class got a “Can Count to 100” sticker and when I collared the teacher at break time to show I could count to 100 too. I got nothing.

  26. Be honest you just posted this to flex on us with your sick stickers didn’t you.

  28. Brilli ant, unlocked memory

    And yes they do.
    They’re just not as good as the classics

  29. They do in my son’s school. But not on a notebook or record. Usually stuck to their uniforms. Which are thrown by the time they reach home. lol.

  30. I managed to buy myself a small enamelled yellow star to pin on a hat. It reads ‘you tried’ thus damning myself with faint praise.

  31. My kid occasionally comes home with a scratch and sniff one. You can tell we’re in a semi affluent area. 🤣

  32. I’m a secondary school teacher and even older kids love a sticker in their book for good work.

  33. They sure as shit do. My son comes up covered in the fucking things. The worst is when his uniform gets put in the wash with all of them still on. I wish he wasn’t such a great kid.

  35. My 7 yr old came home with one that smelled like bubblegum yesterday, I was quite impressed with that

  37. Primary… I was giving stickers out to my Year 10s yesterday!

  39. Yeah, my Mrs is a secondary school teacher. Last term I sat down with her to help her find different ones that her kids would like, catering for as many as possible. She got a few packs in the end, with one of them being ‘Cars’ themed as one of the SEND children she taught loved the films.

  40. My friend says her children don’t get stickers anymore, and a lot of their homework is online, with online stars/merits and things. All digitalised now 🙁 what is the world coming to?

  41. I never got any stickers at primary school. I feel hard done by now.

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