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Small present ideas from me (TA) for the class please!

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thelongroad · 08/11/2023 14:30

I got some great ideas for the end of last school year presents, so I am back again to ask for Christmas gift inspiration :)

I am a 1:1 (not in the UK), but help out with the whole class as necessary, and would like to give them all a little something at the end of this term.
They are 9-10 years old, and there's 20 of them (10 boys, 10 girls). I need something small, inexpensive but useful or cool, and all the same so there is no picking or wishing you'd got something else.
I did pencils, rubbers, a bouncy squishy ball and stickers/sweets all with emojis on them in summer, and those went down well.
I wanted to get them those lovely magnetic bookmarks for Christmas (someone suggested them on my last thread) but I've noticed quite a few kids have one already.
Any ideas or suggestions most welcome!

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SoSad44 · 11/11/2023 07:07

Artesia · 09/11/2023 13:24

It's really lovely that you want to do it, but I'd honestly save your money. Little things like key rings/slap bands/rubbers etc are a novelty for a few minutes but then get put down and forgotten.

Agreed. I have a Y4 child and we have around 20 key rings and a million fun erasers, pencils etc. please no more stuff.
same for sweets! DC comes home at end of term with sweets from every club, teacher, music teacher etc. wish the cheap sugar overload would stop.

thelongroad · 11/11/2023 20:30

Ok, so just to clarify:
I am currently the only TA in this school, nobody else is feeling any pressure to buy anything

My own dc have in the past received lovely and thoughtful little gifts at Christmas and end-of-year. I suspect things are very different here to the UK, but we are definitely not overwhelmed with plastic tat, so when my ds gets something he's delighted!

I've found that the culture of gift-giving in general is quite different in Germany to the UK.

As an aside - we have to provide our children with all their school materials - every single pencil, pen, rubber, crayon, sharpener, exercise book, ruler etc so it all definitely gets used.

Thanks for the all the suggestions and ideas!

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