Nursery staff

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My daughter started full time nursery in January when she was 8 months old. She started in the baby room, and is now in the toddler room. We love the nursery and the staff are wonderful. I want to get them something to say thank you for Xmas, but am unsure what the etiquette is. Do I buy gifts for all the staff in the baby/toddler rooms, or just for her primary Carer? What gifts do you usually give and how much do you spend? Overall there are 7 people my daughter has a lot of contact with at the nursery and I really am so grateful to them all. but obviously childcare is so expensive, I don't have loads of money to spend on them!

I'm a nursery nurse and what parents usually do is buy their child's key worker something just for them to say thank you and then buy a box of chocs or sweets for all the other staff in the room to share 😊 along with a Christmas card!

I'm a nursery nurse and we can never get enough of biscuits! Love it when it comes to Christmas 😂

I’ve got a gift for all the staff in my dc room and will probably take biscuits too - but they’ve been great, and I feel it’s very much a team effort.

We buy nice hand wash n lotion for staff bathroom and then a gift for keyworker

I do an individual gift for key worker, usually a giftcard or candle and chocs and a big tin of biscuits for everyone else in the room.

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I used to work in nurseries. Usually if we had a tub of sweets given for the room we’d hand them into the office and we’d do a staff gift raffle on the last day.

As a manager I was always given either wine, flowers or toiletries (loved getting hand cream, I was a very hands on a creative practitioner so hands were always in water and chapped).

A couple of parents would do us an individual gift (usually a bag of minis so a mini wine, mini Yankee and little choc) which I really appreciated.

It’s down to you and your budget really, there is no etiquette or right/wrong, do what you feel happy/comfortable with. Some kind words of thanks in individual cards mean a lot as well.