Teacher gift.How much do you spend?

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I managed to pick up a bayliss + Harding gift set for £2.70 in the supermarket. It was reduced, probably normally around £5-7. It's nice. I personally think it's enough for my son to give to his teacher.

However I've since found out some parents spend £10-20! So I'm feeling a bit stingy. Oops.

Surely that's ridiculous though? Christmas is expensive enough!

It’s the thought that counts and it sounds like a lovely gift

I do £10 but that’s because I mostly do vouchers. I think teachers get enough tat at this time of year without me adding to it with stuff they have to find space for! You don’t even have to get them anything so just spend whatever you want to.

Just a card here! My son likes to attach small chocs or sweets to his which is a nice touch!

Whole class just adds to a pot of money for vouchers. We put in £15 as there are 2 teachers and a TA in our class.

I usually give a candle from home bargains and a small box of chocs.

i organise a collection for the teachers and TAs at my child’s school and donations vary from £5 per family to £30 - one year I think someone even gave £50!! I’d say most are around £10-15 though, to be split between teachers, TAs and HLTA who covers PPA (well staffed school!). They end up getting a very generous voucher each plus either chocolate or wine and a card.

As a teacher in a private school I used to get a voucher worth approx £10 per child plus usually flowers chocolate and wine (TA got similar) again all collectively pooled from the class. When I worked in a state school in a fairly low income area it was more like a £3 box of malteasers and not from everyone.

whatever you can afford is absolutely fine!

Yea, I did the same when my kids was at school.My friend is a teacher and the amount of random stuff she gets is quite funny but also quite annoying for her. She’s quite environmentally conscious and only buys things she really likes.

Yea, I did the same when my kids was at school.My friend is a teacher and the amount of random stuff she gets is quite funny but also quite annoying for her. She’s quite environmentally conscious and only buys things she really likes.

I will point out, I will spend more on an end of term 'thankyou' gift. But Christmas... I just feel is a bit unnecessary.

I usually do a £10 voucher for our local Italian coffee shop but this year I got them Lush shower jellies. I thought they’d be easy to regift if it wasn’t their cup of tea.

I have three kids and I do them for teacher and TA so it soon adds up.

Our class does a collection - £25 for staff inc teacher, TA, and other staff like music and PE teacher. I'm very glad there's a central collection, I find it a faff and stressful to choose actual gifts and I'm convinced a lot of it gets wasted.

A homemade card by the child. They have 2 class teachers each plus a TA or 2, I'd be brassic.
I'm making homemade mince pies for the staffroom this year.

I think it's inappropriate to tip teachers.
It was never done while I was in school 1956 to 1969. I thoughtful thank you card with handwritten appreciation is a much better approach.

As others have said, it’s the thought that counts, and as an ex-teacher, I fully agree with this.

But one year, my own DS wanted to make his teacher something as his end of term gift. The making of it was a bit ambitious, but it was all DS’s ideas and it turned into a family project, with relatively little money being spent on it. I was with DS when he presented it to her and could tell that she was genuinely touched. She showed it to all the members of staff who were wandering in and out of the classroom that morning, not to mention all the kids were fascinated by it. I don’t know how much other parents spent on their gifts. I was just so proud of what my son had done for his teacher and the effect it had on her.