How much have you spent on teacher end of term gifts?

[ScrambledToe]

2 kids, 4 teachers (job shares) plus 2 TA. £30!

I only got them chocs.

Luckily my dc do 2yrs in the same class so I only ever buy a gift when they’re actually moving out of the classroom and to another teacher. So won’t be buying anything at all next year

£10

Haven’t done it yet but it will be...
£20 - 2 bottles of fizz for ds teacher and TA, £15 Shakespeare mug for dd1s form tutor and £10 wine for dd2s form tutor.
I’m also a TA at a junior school and receive lots of lovely things. I honestly love the cards from parents the most, although have had some very much appreciated feedback emailed to my headteacher praising what I have done for various children which is just so wonderful. She called me in last year and gave me some flowers with a very heartfelt card thanking me for having a positive impact and making a difference to the children. It’s why we all do it, seriously.
The holidays aren’t worth anything really if you don’t feel valued in your job or get job satisfaction. I love what I do because your children make life a pleasure!!
So please, if you or your child have had a positive experience of school this year, if you don’t want to buy a gift for whatever reason but would still like to do ‘something’, I would encourage you to think about sending a nice card and an email!

£5 each to the class fund

I'll spend more on the brownie volunteers who have the thankless (and unpaid) job of coralling the little darlings every week! (And I've done my time on the rota and my head hurt afterwards)

£10 costa voucher for dd1s form teacher
£10 in class collection for dd2s teacher/TA
£10 in class collection for ds1s teacher/TA
£50 voucher for ds2s key worker at nursery
Box of chocolates for the other nursery staff.

I would never normal spend £50 but she has been the key worker for all my children and we have known her a long time during which she has been amazing. Ds2 is my last child so it's the end of an era really, I want to get her something a bit extra.

£0

£40 for the caretakers who have been wonderful
£0 for the teaching staff

Last child’s last year at secondary school. Hooray!

My son likes to get personal gifts. This year his teacher loves cats and coffee so he wanted a cat mug and ground coffee. (I also grabbed a cafetière) cost about £12 but she’s been fantastic. I don’t buy for TAs as a rule, but the one this year has solved a problem for ds thats flummoxed everyone for years (he’s in y5) so I picked her up a mug too.

Dd is at secondary. She’s taken matchmakers for several teachers, plus office staff and her bus driver. She made her (exceptional) English teacher a pencil case and we got her some nice marking pens too, in the correct colours. Total cost, £11

I wrote a letter to DDs English teacher and I’ve made a cross stitch card for Ds’s teacher, which I’ll write a personal thank you inside.

I was a teacher and the letters/cards of thanks meant the most to me so I say thank you where it’s due and mean it.

Am I the only one that hasn't got around to it all yet?

I haven't got around to it and mine finished school weeks ago.

£12 on 12 £1 mini boxes of chocs. I'd normally spend a little more but it's a tight month! It's only meant to be a little token.

I usually give £10-15 to the class collection and they get JL vouchers for the teachers and TAs. The last few weeks have been incredibly stressful for personal/family reasons and i forgot to do it in time, so the teachers are just getting a card each. On a different MN thread, the list of things teachers didnt want was so long, but most said they'd be happy with a personal note. In fact the one i feel is most important is for a support teacher who has been helping my DS . I knew he was on an intervention but didn't know what the teacher was called but he said he needed to do a card for her to say thank you which i think is nice as she will obviously get less than the class teachers.
My Dsis works for a high end chain store and she says some parents are spending hundreds of pounds on teachers gifts.

3 teachers

£10 each for two teachers
£15 on main teacher

Bought which dd 10 wanted to get

Personalised wooden coaster each, personalised wooden keyring each
Then main teacher also getting a wrendale mug
Each have cards
Presents in gift bags

Dc1 - year 8 - costa voucher for form tutor.

Dc 2 - year 6 - costa voucher for teacher and TA. Batch of cupcakes for staff room and letters to head and year 6 teacher.

Both - costa voucher for out of school guitar teacher.

Mine hasn't cost anything, DD has made gifts.

@Skinnychip intervention TAs hardly ever get anything, I'm sure they will be delighted with a card showing you have noticed and do appreciate them. I remember feeling a bit forgotten the only year I didn't have a class of my own.

@HappyLoneParentDay

This, with chocolates inside

£0!

Teachers spend their own salaries on resources and also buy gifts for my children at Christmas and in July - sometimes sweets, often stationery items and even books!

I spend £10 approximately per teacher and also send a handwritten card.

£19

£14 for the lovely teacher towards a Michael Kors clutch bag from a small group - she's fabulous!

And £5 into the class collection for I don't know what for the not so nice teacher!

£5 Costa gift card, in a thank you card with properly-articulated gratitude in it, because they have been fab and I wanted to let them know I appreciated that. X2 because DC is in a job share class this year.

I think a costa gift card is a great idea, but can you really get coffee and cake for £5 ?

My DS is not leaving preschool, so I've not bought anything. I did buy his key person a Christmas gift and gave all the others some chocolates each.

I work in a boarding school with plenty of affluent parents. I would estimate I take home £300 worth of gifts every Christmas and end of school year. It is wonderful and I realise I’m hugely fortunate but to those who say they really can’t afford it, please do not worry. As amazing as the gifts are it’s not those I remember. I keep all the cards and letters and they are the things I treasure. When you’ve been up all night, vomited on, capsized in a canoe and then dealt with a nit outbreak, it’s 11pm and you still have 14 emails in your inbox you sometimes question why you do it. That box of cards always reminds me why. It’s not the gifts you remember its the kids.

I think a costa gift card is a great idea, but can you really get coffee and cake for £5 ?

Depends how indulgent you like your coffee and your cake. At the risk of sounding all mumsnet orthorexia and one-chicken-will-feed-a-family-of-17-for-a-week-otherwise-you’re-not-doing-it-right, I spend less than that in Costa on a coffee for me, babychinos for both kids, and a pack of biscuits for us to share, principally because I don’t like steamed milk or syrupy gloop in my coffee and because I am too poor/tight-fisted to splurge, but I don’t expect you’d get a whizzier drink and a big hunk of cake inside of £5, no. Nonetheless I think it’s a perfectly respectable and proportionate value for an end of term gift.

£2.45 for a small latte and cakes are usually around £2.50 at Costa so a £5.00 gift card should do the trick. Or a more expensive coffee and a pack of their lovely biscuits.

I bought my DD’s teacher a Lush set. Only a £15 one but she deserves it, she has been a fantastic teacher. I also bought the very lovey TA in my DS’s class a hotel chocolat box. The other teachers are just getting a plant each. I bought those two more expensive and special gifts because they have really gone above and beyond for my DC’s this year.

I bought a pack of thank you cards from Paperchase.

Our parents do £5 collection and divide it between the teacher and support staff. Hopefully not compulsory! The parents gather together on the last morning and present us with gifts and their thanks. We in turn thank them for being supportive and have a chuckle about various things. Especially nice for us TAs who rarely get to speak to the parents. Lovely flowers, decent bubbly and gift vouchers. So generous and much appreciated. Just as thoughtful are the individual gifts, homemade sweets, cakes and handwritten messages. Having said that, please, please don't fret about end of year gifts. No school staff member I've ever known expects a thing.