To have bought ds's teacher a giant kestrel?

[SilverLining17]

I mean at least she won't get a duplicate and it make a change from 'best teacher' mugs?!

Asked ds what she liked - gardening apparently. DS's class is kestrel class so aha I thought. A little kestrel ornament for the garden. Except it is not little. No no. It is a gigantic genetically modified kestrel. Maybe she can put it at the bottom of the garden so it looks smaller?!

Love it...and it could have different outfits for each occassion - Christmas Jumper, Pumpkin, Mortar Board for OFSTED...

That is amazing - where is it from?

Omg. PLEASE let this become part of 'Classics'

My mum is a retired teacher and she'd have loved a Kenneth 😂

I think he should be trained to glare irascibly at Ofsted inspectors.

I am howling at this thread. Sir Kittering Windfucker (obviously correctly addressed as Sir Kit which sounds like "suck it" for added snort) will be such a favourite with the new kestrels. I'm jel actually because DCs' school is single-form entry so the classes are called, erm, Year Four, etc. I think there's something delightfully whimsical about nature names for children's classes.

Actually I remember DC1 being in the Ladybird room at nursery. Naaaaaawwwh.

I think it's an excellent gift and the alternative you considered is not nearly enigmatic enough. She might have thought you meant it.

Teachers all over the country petitioning SLT to rename the classes "gin" "merlot" "prosecco" etc to make Christmas more fun.

My husband and I are both teachers and we love it. I hate getting shit wine that I have to try and palm off on people at parties. One kid gave me Lambrini one year. The kestrel is good!

Will it be an avian version of the 'Elf on the shelf'?
It's definitely got a baleful glare......

Awesome!

I'd have loved this as a present!

All I have ever got that was memorable was a can of lager and a couple of cheap snow globes.

(It was Heineken though)

Teachers all over the country petitioning SLT to rename the classes "gin" "merlot" "prosecco" etc to make Christmas more fun.

This thread just keeps giving.

I was in a school once that had sea side creatures.

I can list them as that would be outing.

Such a present would have been slimy and smelly for me.

*cant

*can't

Ffs.

You're going to have to call him Keith.

Are you in the West Country?

Nope. Not West Country.

However KoD is proving useful. He eyed ds this morning round the bedroom door when he wouldn't get up and he pecked dh for putting a dirty plate in a clean dishwasher that needed emptying.

He's just threatening enough with a slight undertone of judgementalness.

I think it's awesome SilverLining, great idea

Now I am wondering if you are local to me, because my dd2 is in Kestrels and will be in Kestrels again next year...
But I do think it is a great present. I will now be on the lookout on the last day of term.

Placemark- I need to know how the teacher reacts. It's brilliant

THIS!
THIS is why I love MumsNet

I really like the resin kestral.

I think TKoD is an excellent present.

I love this. Wish my pupils would be so original!

I'm giraffes class this year and next, maybe I should start dropping hints!!

Imagine a giraffe that was twice as big as an actual giraffe.

He's wonderful Silver. How can teacher possibly not love him?

That origami hat looks very complicated. might be easier if your crafting skills are nearer to my level!

He is marvellous!

I am not a teacher, but I want one