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Gifts from schools

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indyandlara · 20/12/2013 19:56

Following on from the mushroom book thread, I am curious about presents children have received from their teacher. I'm a teacher and bought a Roald Dahl book(several sets bought from the Book People) and a small chocolateor everyone. Thankfully I jobshare and we split the cost this year!

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Nanny0gg · 21/12/2013 00:39

Our HT banned staff buying gifts for the children a few years' ago.

trinity0097 · 21/12/2013 07:25

I always buy my form a book at Xmas, this year I have Year 7 and got a box set collection of 007 books from the book people, so £1 a book approx, and split that up. For my tutees I also got books, a bit more expensive though, they were about £3 each, but then our tutee relationship at school is the bigger deal.

At Easter I get my Form a small egg, like a cream egg and my tutees a bigger egg (the smaller ones though that always come up on offer in supermarkets).

In the summer term I get my tutees a book again. In the last few years my form have got fairtrade chocolate as our PSHE topic had been fairtrade, but now I have older ones and don't teach PSHE, I don't know what I will get them!

manicinsomniac · 21/12/2013 08:58

wow! You're all so nice.

I got my form group (Y6) a candy cane and a little Christmas chocolate bar each. That's it!

Fits in with our school though. My eldest (a parallel Y6 class) didn't get anything and my youngest (Y2) got 3 chocolate coins.

MadeOfStarDust · 21/12/2013 09:03

My dds in secondary school got a Christmas card with a personal message about how well they were doing from their tutor...

I thought that was lovely as each girl's message showed the tutor knew them well!!

AllThatGlistensIsChristmassy · 21/12/2013 09:33

My DC (9 & 7) came home yesterday with plastic mugs that had a clear outer and removable inner, and a Christmas picture design to colour in that then went in the clear outer part before fixing the insert back in (sorry, sleep deprived and not explained that too clearly!)

Apparently everyone in the school received one and they actually both sat together for 2 hrs last night colouring their inserts in (DB and DSIL babysat whilst DH and I went late night shopping) and assembling their mugs, so a big hit in our house and a lovely gesture from the staff Xmas Grin

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