Teacher gifts for £5 each- is it possible?

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If there's a thread on teacher gifts please point me that way!

DC's school have had a bit of restructuring and so now has 5 (yes 5) teachers. All input equally (2 are TA's but full time).

We also use after school hub most weeks, there are another 3 staff, again they seem to share the role equally.

That's 8 ladies to buy for, £40 if I can limit it to £5 each.

Their card will have a little message from dc but dc desperate to give a gift like all the other kids are...

Any ideas welcome 🤗

Just do a nice card, there is no need to buy a gift. The teachers are all paid they aren't volunteers.

I personally prefer to do consumables e.g Lindt box of chocolates (they were on offer at Tesco recently) or chocolate reindeer or teddy or biscuits in a nice Christmassy tin.

Don't spend £40 on teacher gifts, that's crazy.

£5 on Costa gift cards 👍

I would say really, don't bother. Maybe at the end of the school year to say thank you, but why would you need to give christmas presents?
If the kids insist then 8 x Terry's chocolate oranges at £1.50 each - the kids will have no idea they don't cost a tenner - job's a good 'un.

Just do a card. No one needs a present, for lots of people it is just more tat, more chocolate (unhealthy/unwanted) or more booze (unhealthy/unwanted).

Card & box of biscuits or just a card. For years I've given teacher & TA's gifts and I'm now just going to do cards from my kids.
This year I will be getting a nice box chocolates for the admin & reception staff as well as the breakfast & after school club staff, they are so good at my kids school, always overlooked though.

Get a choc Santa or a choc orange or box of matchmakers if your DC want to hand over a gift. Universally liked or easily passed on.

Dont bother with anything else and there is no need for spending £5 as opposed to £1.50

Make peppermint creams dipped in chocolate, or make fudge. Buy those little cellophane bags off Amazon or Hobbycraft, tie up with a pretty ribbon. Ta dah!

I was going to get chocs and wine but then our parents whatsap group someone suggested a collection of £10 each which I was happy with. In your shoes if you are genuinely happy with your dc's schooling and teachers I think getting a small gift is nice thing to do it isn't an easy job. You can likely get pack of 10 cards for £1 somewhere like the works. Then look in Tesco they usually have 3 for £10 or 3 for £12 on chocs Lindt usually £4 I think and a nice chocolate even tubs of quality street £4 with club card and seem a bit 'bigger ' present

They’re paid just like other people who have made yours and your children’s lives go smoothly this year - the car mechanics, the supermarket delivery drivers, the engineers at the sewage plant etc etc. I used to be friendly with a teacher, she gave me a tub of Quality Street from the parents one year as she was just sick of so much chocolate.

Get the kids to make a card, felt tips, bit of cotton wool, short message, write something in it thanking them, they’ll remember that.

Teach them that you don’t have to spend money to show your thanks.

I am a teacher (secondary) and thoughtful cards are my favourite thing in the world.
But I get the primary school teacher gift pressure too (kids in primary). I do little gift bags - nice card (as in nice message! Not fancy card), mini wine, few chocolates / chocolate bar and a scratch card. It really is the thought that counts. About a fiver each. I’ll be glad when they go to secondary because Christmas cards and presents are absolutely not a thing there.

A card with a warm message is much nicer.

Gift a large box of tea bags and a nice big jar of coffee for the staff room. Don't do separate gifts!

My kids are the same 3/4 in each class due to job sharing etc. so instead of buying individual gifts, I put a little box together for the class to share. Biscuits, coffee, teabags, wipes, chocolates, pencils and any other little essentials I find. Usually get everything from the poundshop!!

DD is a primary school teacher. Many of her presents are £1.50 chocolate oranges as advised above, or £2 boxes of Malteasers. Every year, she is absolutely made up and over the moon that she receives anything. As a PP said, you could go for chocolate santas - I think the Aldi version is £1 so that’d be £8 all in.

A few years ago I used to get my aunts and uncles a small gift each Christmas.

a bag of nice ground coffee and a pack of florentine biscuits, I waited till the coffee was on offer, fitted nicely in a wine gift bag.

not sure of the cost in todays world but they all loved it.

edited to say, just had a Quick Look on Sainsburys the Taylor’s coffee is quite expensive but there are others there is you have a nectar card where the price would probably allow it (with a different biscuit).

As a kid of two teachers the cards were the best presents in their eyes. The rest went into a cupboard then got gifted on, much of it to the tombola at our school. Don't spend money you don't need to on a gift.

We've bought a nice box of biscuits for the adults in the class to share. Will give it to them the week before the end of term so they can enjoy them in the last week. Between part time teachers and staff it just gets expensive to buy individual gifts.

£5 Costa or Starbucks card or a box of Matchmakers or a chocolate orange.

Please don't push yourself to do this. We'd much prefer you to spend the money on your own family and a card is more than enough.

A box of Maltesers or a hand cream, plenty.

I’m a primary school teacher, I never expect to receive a gift (a card is lovely) and I don’t want parents/carers to spend money unnecessarily. I work in an area that socially deprived and it’s very difficult when there are multiple adults to buy for, particularly at Christmas.
I did receive a gift that I thought was a really good idea, a bar of chocolate that was wrapped in brown paper and the child had drawn and written on it in felt pens.

If you want to give gifts then both Aldi and Lidl to chocolate Santas for about £1 Lidl do an Amaryllis kit for£4

Isn't it about time the schools, or teacher's themselves put out a communication about gifts? Many families really struggle and it's pretty disgusting that in circumstances like this, with potentially 8 members of staff, they haven't made an attempt to remove this ridiculous tradition. There are always posts on MN after Christmas etc, and the gifts are mocked or moaned about.
The teachers saying they'd prefer a card, have you told your class this? Please do it, instead of accepting money or gift cards from families who could do without the extra expense.