Now here’s a cracker! The staff at Berea West Prep School decided to prank their principal by inundating her with the most random, unnecessary, and utterly bizarre updates about their lives.
Westville, South Africa (04 December 2025) – We all love a good laugh from time to time (if not all the time), and the staff at Berea West Prep School thought it would be a great idea to make their principal, Mrs G, unknowingly the centre of their inside joke.
In a funny video shared on the school’s social media pages, one of the teachers is seen introducing the prank by explaining that the staff would be giving Mrs G random updates throughout the day.
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The footage shows various teachers approaching Mrs G on the field, in corridors, and at her office, informing her of the most random and unexpected details of their day.
One teacher went out of her way to tell Mrs G that she had balloons in her car, another stopped her to give an update on finishing all her breakfast that morning, and another made sure to let the confused principal know she had a good night’s sleep the night before.
Two updates that definitely gave us the giggles were from a male staff member who updated Mrs G on having a really cold orange for breakfast and another who walked up to her to show her a piece of dried mango.
Needless to say, Mrs G was left delightfully puzzled at being inundated with the strangest updates that she never asked for, but her staff cared to notify her of anyway.
It made for a really good, funny and the entertained viewers on social media seem to agree, with laughing emojis flying around the comments section, and one person even joked about updating Mrs G that the post of the video had another Facebook notification.
Sources: Berea West Prep School
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