Christmas presents for teachers - what did you do?

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There was a class collection for the teacher and TA. Suggested amounts were £10 for the teacher and £5 for the TA. Of course it was not compulsory to contribute, so I chose not to, but to buy presents instead. However I think most parents contributed to the collection, but then I saw lots bring presents in, too. Is this what normally happens? Contribute to the collection AND buy presents? What did you do in terms of presents for teachers?

I contributed to the class collection (fiver). Dd wanted to give a present, so we gave a small box of biscuits and a Christmas card with a note from dd saying what a great teacher she was.

Disclaimer: we are in Australia where it is both Christmas and the end of the school year.

DS made Christmas decorations for his teachers. Something small to hang on the tree.

Champagne and chocolate for the teachers and TAs.
Chocolate for the receptionist.
Nice mince pies for all the staff (it is a small school).

Teachers so deserve gifts at christmas they work so bloody hard. Declaring gifts?? Our world is Going mad

I can't be doing with class collections, luckily there didn't seem to be any in DS' school this year. We had lots of Prosecco left from a party so the teachers got a bottle each, usually it's chocolates or fudge.

Dd1 was switched away from the mum's that always organise the collections so we've had to go solo this year.
So her teacher will be getting a tea selection only met him a handful of times and he always has a cup of tea and a box of green biros at dd's request because he's always running out of them apparantly.
I much prefer collections!

singingismypassion unfortunately yes, at least in theory. Not a school thing, an HMRC thing I think.

iirc the rules say that 30 boxes of chocolate are fine, but one £50 voucher isn't.