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Christmas presents for teachers

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Creole · 01/12/2005 10:48

What do you give them?

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Feistybird · 01/12/2005 10:49

What do you mean, we have to buy Xmas pressies for teachers???

jinglinggoblin · 01/12/2005 10:49

am thinking a plant. got chocs last year and decorated mugs with ceramics paints for end of year presents (but they had really worked for those!)

Easy · 01/12/2005 10:53

Oh blimey no. Miss N will get a Christmas card from ds, as will the teaching assistant, but I really don't think it's necessary to give present. I mean what if all 27 kids give a present, what will Miss N do with all the stuff that comes her way. You know how it is when you get a present you don't like.

BudaBabeInAManger · 01/12/2005 11:07

We do presents but do a collection and just get one present. Am still on the receiving end of the present MIL used to get when she was teaching!!

Avalon · 01/12/2005 11:10

Nothing.

brightstar1 · 01/12/2005 11:17

I ask Ds's if they want to, last year we bought poinsettia,or they make own christmas card,which i think is much nicer and makes them feel good.
Would be interesting to see what teachers think.
Come on don't be shy!

ENIDeepMidwinter · 01/12/2005 11:25

wine

wilbur · 01/12/2005 11:25

Oh dear, maybe I've gone a bit ott - I've bought teacher and teaching assistant small but pretty bags from Accessorize thinking that if they hate them it will be easy to take them back and swap them for something they like. We did the club together for ds1's nursery teachers last year and the mum in charge bought them a cut crystal bowl each for £120!!!!! I thought this was really crap (what young woman really wants that kind of money spent on a crystal bowl????), so if you're clubbing together make sure the buyer is going to get something decent. Most of the teachers I know would prefer a case of wine or HMV tokens.

motherinfurrierfestivehat · 01/12/2005 11:27

Wilbur, that sounds quite lovely.

I'll probably give DD1's teacher a bottle of wine, she's nice and I'd like her to have a boozy Christmas.

Epiffany · 01/12/2005 11:29

I always assumed that the joy of teaching my child was present enough?
NO?
Oooops

Bozza · 01/12/2005 11:31

I think wine is probably quite a good one because I assume that they get inundated with chocs but something consumable is probably better.

BudaBabeInAManger · 01/12/2005 11:32

We're thinking of a nice hamper for the teaching assistant and a voucher for a facial or something for the teacher.

dejinglejags · 01/12/2005 11:34

Yes,

Pretty Christmas Mugs for the teacher and teaching assistant and choccies for the school secretary.

Cards for all.

This is the norm in South Africa - I remember my friends mum was a teacher, when we were little, the last day of terms was fantastic as used to help her open all the pressies.

Easy · 01/12/2005 11:42

I don't remember presents ever for my teachers

sinclair · 01/12/2005 11:59

Most teachers I know like wine, chocs, something consumable, esp if they are lucky enough to get 30 gifts! But we bought LSA a voucher for a pedicure at local salon at end of term and that was a huge success - so second that as an idea if folk are clubbing together.

homemama · 01/12/2005 12:02

I used to teach in a very affluent home counties village school and the parents there turned it into a bit of a competition which was very awkward. They'd present you with gifts at the door and insist you opened them in front of all the other mums. I got bottles of bolly and Harrod's hampers. All very nice but equally as nice to be presented with a small box of choccies at the end of the last day and a card with a few words of thanks in it.

Of course Dh was always appreciative of a bottle of red!

REINDEERPOOtlepod · 01/12/2005 12:08

I don't expect a present but really appreciate a home made card.

Best present I ever got was homemade double chocolate Brownies presented in a glass vase. I also liked wine and flowers/plants.

skinnycow · 01/12/2005 12:09

my ds's teacher is a man about 45ish married with children - obviously quite middle class - am stuck for an idea

spruceylucy5 · 01/12/2005 12:14

Wine and chocs. I used to get loads and share them out with the forgotten members of staff, e.g TAs ,language assitants etc.

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Creole · 01/12/2005 12:29

Somebody suggested something from bodyshop - I think that's a great idea and the wine too!

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myrrhthamoo · 01/12/2005 12:30

I'm stopping this year. Ds1 is in year 4 and I don't like her (bah humbug).

spruceylucy5 · 01/12/2005 13:09

why dont you give her something horrible to piss her off. I got some dreadful soap free in M and S, lavendar, violet etc would love to give it someone I dont like but cant really think of anyone, hehehehhehe

slug · 01/12/2005 15:04

Madam's teachers are very important people in her life (she's 4 and in nursery). She is also extremly fond of 'cooking' and painting. Therefore her teachers will get some lovingly made pictures and some decorated biscuits all made by her grubby little paws.

Bozza · 01/12/2005 15:30

skinnycow I would have thought he was an obvious candidate for a nice bottle of wine.

Easy · 01/12/2005 16:37

But just occasionally you find people who don't drink !!!

How awful, to give a good bottle of wine to someone, to find out some time later that they don't, and they gave it away to someone else, or worse to find it on the bottle stall at the next school fayre

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