How much do you spend on the teacher's present at Christmas?

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is £5 mean?

or do I get one big thing for about £15 and they all share it (teacher and assistants)

I am new to this and want to do the DONE THING

do they get 30 presents of crap?

I spend around £7.99 on a bottle of wine each. We only have one teacher and assistant.

£5 to £10 on individual teacher.

I tend to look for something that is drinkable or edible, so they don't have loads of bits to take home and find homes for. Unless I can find something particularly nice, but not had time this year.

A decentish wine never fails to impress and it saves thinking about it too!

This year they are each getting one of those individual bottles of champers, a hand-painted tealight holder from a local art gallery, a small bag of homemade truffles and fudge and a card made by DD1.

About £8/each but there are only 2 teachers and one assistant.

I do Oxfam Unwrapped at Christmas. 200 school dinners, a feeling of great virtue and they wouldn't complain about that, would they?

Besides, there's 5 school teachers, 5 nursery teachers. A goat is cheaper

i buy a box of lovely biscuits for them to share. i have 5 kids 1 has sn and 1 is at pre school so couldnt buy individual would cost me a fortune!

I'm getting ours a lush bath bomb each . I do have 5 to buy for though. In the summer they got considerably more. I may also get some nice biscuits for the staff room too, I haven't decided.

As little as possible. I usually go to Lidl and buy a box of shortbread.

oxfam umwrapped gifts here to. have wrapped up the gift cards with a small tin of chocolates and a personnal message too!!!

dd1 has one teacher and 2 assistants

dd2 is at playgroup and there are 7 staff there so I think box of biscuits for them

oh, and ballet teacher

fgs, this time of year, it's £££££££

I have a Lidl up the road, may peruse

I take a tin of Roses in to the GP surgery, a box of chocolates for the postman, homemade liqueurs and baked goods for the neighbours, etc.

It's a gesture of good will .

Lidl is brilliant for such gifts, Come.

And they also have tins of Quality Street and Roses on sale.

Toblerone bars, too.

Hav you got a lollipop man/lady Olive? Don't forget them either..

I am class rep and I have bought 2 body shop gift sets and all parents are contributing £1 each I don't see the need for the teachers to get a present from every child

Kick your class rep until they agree to a whip-round. Get this sorted in reception and it will save you hassle way down the line. Ds1's teacher (22) is getting a digital camera.

Cross-post. We may have spent more than £1 per pupil...

We all chuck in £2 each and the class rep gets a present for the teacher and assistant - so works out at £30 per present.

class rep? never heard of him/her

lollipop woman gets a 2 second look as I drive past in my car , so no present for her

we are obviously mean I only spent £15 per present but saying that some parents still haven't coughed up

The Staff Code of Conduct at our school says that gifts should not be of any 'significant value, generally not exceeding £10'

Mind you, it also says that an employee must not have a relationship with their line manager, which is unfortunate for our cleaner who is married to the Site Controller. (When I mentioned this to her, she said "I'll never have to have a headache again"

Have spent about £12 each on the teacher and TA and a bit less on the 2 afterschool club staff.

Dont think we have a class rep to do a collection.

i thought it waqs only me who doesnt haev a class rep

cna you imahgine a worse job?

i spend a lot when oyu add it all up.
i buy for TAs teachers, cub a dn beavers leaders( although they fot the £3 50 candle see other thread)

i got some juicy tubes for £8( same as hulas bottle of wine budget) for the two tredy teachers adn some vintage cava reduced in tesco ages ago fomr £10 to £5 for the TAS
one of my best ever gifts at the end of the year was a small nigella tin(£5) fille diwht marks and spencers chocolate reasisins and strawbrierries

voila