It's that time of year again - teacher gifts

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What are people getting their children's teachers for the end of term if you are so inclined?

Male teacher gift ideas please?

No alcohol

Budget £20 ish

My kids classes we all club together a few quid each and get one gift.

last year male teacher got gift vouchers for local garden centre

Always consumables

XL Bar of Choc
Tin of Sweets
A Cake
Voucher to local Pizza Place

I kiss the feet of any parent who is willing to organise a collection.

there is nothing generic that a male teacher is guaranteed to like. Perhaps an Amazon voucher in a homemade card so that it can be spent on a treat or necessities as the person chooses.

We did give a nice bottle of something to eat one or two teachers. But if alcohol is out then a voucher or something home made (like jam or brownies or fudge) by the child.

As teachers ourselves we always gift a voucher for a coffee shop 😊 teachers always need caffeine!

I'm a teacher and so is DH. Truthfully, please don't buy us anything - we don't need it. Many of us earn more than the parents of the children we teach - it doesn't make sense to buy us gifts! Depending on your school, it's budget and how it's run, the age of your kids etc it might be really useful to get something for the classroom (like glue sticks or scissors or pens) to save us purchasing them ourselves - but some schools are very well stocked in that regard and others aren't.

If you really would like to buy us something, then something like a gift card would be ideal. It's genuinely so upsetting to throw away or donate things that were given to us but I kill every single houseplant and I cannot store 30 new "Best Teacher" mugs every year. People often suggest consumables but so many people have allergies or dietary requirements etc that it's pretty likely they'll go to waste too.

Many schools have put a ban on gifts too - so double check that if you haven't already.

Voucher for local bookshop or garden centre
Chilli cup
Personalised water bottle
Have been my DHs favourite gifts.
£20 is very generous though - there is really no need to spend that much.

I'm not sure this time - it's complicated by the fact that one teacher is going to have the same child (and the other one - god help her) next year as they have split yeargroup classes. For Christmas I made personalised mugs for each staff member - so I can't really abuse my mug press again this soon.

Probably just a nice notebook, pen set and small thing of chocs or fudge - that's my usual fall-back position as they're stuff that will either get used or regifted to be used.

I got my DDs teacher a leather card holder from yoshi with his initial on it. I got it when they had a sale on so it was only £5.

The best gift is always "thank you"

Here's the link. The initial card holders on the second page but there are some other nice bits worth looking at

www.yoshigoods.com/collections/winter-sale

Better to club together and do it as a class gift. That way your £20 is actually £20 rather than £3 for a card, £2 for a gift bag etc.

If there's no way of a group one - Amazon gift card is the best idea.

No teacher needs 'You're a great teacher' on their wall made up of scrabble tiles. Or another mug. Or a crap hanging decoration.

Every year when I see suggestions of gifts I just cringe. Cash / gift card / wine / biscuits.

Best gift - handwritten thank you from the child.

I offered to do a collection for our teacher but it just got so complicated with people not wanting to buy this or that & it's always those people who don't put their hand up to help so I've stepped back. I cba with drama.

I have just got ds through school to year 11 without buying a single teacher a present in all the years he's been in school.
The teacher present police haven't caught up with me yet.

Handwritten card with a message to say how the teacher has helped the child. No gifts required. Except if secondary - not many gifts get given and a large box of chocolates with a message to the Department is very welcome.

A decent travel mug (with a lid) is always handy, or a nice reusable water bottle. If getting a mug you could get some nice coffee and biscuits to go with it maybe? I am a teacher and we are only allowed to use covered mugs around school. Also, if I make a coffee before school and forget to drink it, it is still hot at playtime. One year a parent got me a chilled bottle of prosecco which was nice as it was still cold to enjoy once school had finished! I have also enjoyed coffee shop/ book vouchers. Whatever you choose will no doubt be appreciated x

I'm not buying gifts for teachers, just getting DC to make cards.
I am buying for volunteers - the ladies who run Rainbows and the people who organise the toddler group where I take my youngest every week. Waitrose have bars of Tonys Chocolonely on offer at the moment so probably one of those each.

Our schoolyear finished a while ago. DD (7) chose stuff herself - some chocs in a cat tin (apparently the teacher really likes cats), a book token and a bookmark. She also wrote a letter to the teacher to say how much she'd loved being in her class. Poor DD was heartbroken to say goodbye to this teacher as she was awesome!

Vouchers all the way. We do a class collection, thank god and it’s usually john lewis or amazon vouchers, maybe some flowers with a bit of the £ if funds allow.

There was an MN thread recently with lots of sneering at the need for a class rep. Organising joint teacher gifts is one of the many useful things they do.

I'm a teacher and I think it's lovely when classes club together. I feel less guilt because people will have given a smaller amount than if they'd bought a gift themselves, and I love the idea of them planning and organising it, it's just so thoughtful. If everyone puts in £1 I have a lovely bunch of flowers or whatever.

I know we are supposed to say that we don't want gifts, but I always do feel so appreciated and special, regardless of what it is or how much it costs.

I know people will be on shortly to say that teachers don't deserve gifts and I guess they're right, but it's a rare teacher who hasn't spent their own money on their children over the course of a year and it is nice to think that it's been noticed.

I buy raffle prizes (weekly), science experiment stuff, food for parties, lollies and food treats, costume bits for kids who haven't got one, classroom decorations, wet playtime toys, stickers and some stationery myself.

I am also a fan of an email to the Head if your teacher has really impressed - brownie points for us, and free.

As a teacher myself, if you are spending that much a voucher is best. But that is a lot of money and I would never expect that amount to be spent on me by a parent. A card and a thank you means just as much. But definitely a voucher if you really want to, I’d say amazon or something like that as well.

my husband and I don’t drink and throughout the year my husband is gifted multiple bottles of champagne for various reasons, I’ve started to give these as teacher gifts, it means I don’t have to fork out for a gift but they receive something nice. I look very generous too 😂

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That's why I said no alcohol as I have no
Idea if they drink