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?!

All teachers should have giant kestrels.

😂😭😂😍 I want one I want one!

He needs a mini graduation hat

I am a teacher and I think it's fantastic so much better than another box of chocolates. Don't mean to sound ungrateful but it's not helping the diet

I was bought a HUGE stone duck one year, absolute dead weight.

I had no links to ducks of any kind

I cycled to work and never actually got the thing home ( though by the time I left the school the child had too).

I am a teacher of a 'bird' named class and I would LOVE him! I'd call him 'Our Kes' like Craig David from Bo' Selecta and he would definitely live in my classroom! I'm sad I'm not a kestrel now 😞

Stargirl
The giraffe possibilities are pretty much endless. You could maybe start a herd going as a subtle hint at a pretty low cost...

Pacific
I think you need to start dropping hints to patients. I get my awesome!GP book tokens/Amazon vouchers because she likes to read & Choosing New Books is fantastic. I would happily buy her a Kestrel Of Doom (& accessories - a wee stethoscope would seem appropriate...) if she made any suggestion such a thing would be welcome in her life. Am now slightly tempted to get her a Doom!Kestrel for the craic/as a Get Well Soon present, but then I'd have to explain myself. And while I can't imagine how anyone could NOT want a Doom!Kestrel (there's even the PERFECT spot where it could sit & look all judgy at patients in her consulting room) if she somehow wasn't enraptured with a Doom!Kestrel all her very own that might be...awkward

Brilliant.
Oversized avian yard art FTW.

Hairclip could be affixed with a magnet?

I'm a teacher and I was once brought a Saxophone Playing Gnome as a present by a pupil! It wasn't completely random as I do play the saxophone and had taken it in to use with the kids and then aparently one of them and seen it in the garden centre and insisted that it was a perfect gift for me. I did have it in my garden for some years until it sadly got frost damage and lost it's head! Gave me lots of smiles first though and almost 10 years on I still remember that child!!!

Ahhhh, bloody genius! You have made me go 'shiiiiit, end of year teacher presents' in a flap though

Place marks for update on teachers reaction

Zebra, how on earth would one drop subtle kestrel related hints?! It's not easy to fit in to conversation, is it?
Any help gratefully received.

I am going to have to be more creative with my teacher presents in years to come, clearly.

I'm a teacher and I'd love that
Very thoughtful x

I love kestrel. He is magnificent

Just stop buying teachers shit they don't want. Wine and chocolate are totally reasonable gifts, your child means nothing to them and some personalised piece of shit will be in the bin before next term.

Lots of naice stationery available on Amazon Prime at the moment. Nice board markers/ sticky notes/ notebooks etc.

And lots of booze on offer in the supermarkets.

We can't all be as epic as SilverLining...!

Just a thought, what if said teacher was lumbered with kestrel as her class name and in fact has no understanding of bird species or what a kestrel in fact looks like. Then you are not handing over a gift that will have meaning to her but just a terrifyingly menacing metal bird.

Just stop buying teachers shit they don't want. Wine and chocolate are totally reasonable gifts, your child means nothing to them and some personalised piece of shit will be in the bin before next term.

Kes won't end up in the bin. He wouldn't fit for a start.

OP Guess what? this thread is now a article on Aunty Beeb's news site...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/education-40503048/what-do-you-gift-a-teacher

OOOOh!...You be posh now, you be.

Can I have your autograph please -even if you make it up ?

I'm a teacher and I would love a gift like that. So thoughtful! I think it's kind of cute..

"Knock knock motherfucker."

Greenifer That cheered me right up. For most of it I thought the giant chicken had 'Clarence' painted down the side of it so felt offended on the chicken's behalf that they were renaming him. Until I zoomed in and realised it said 'Clearance'.

ZED!! Where have you BEEN?!

I'm a kestrels mum too, looking forward to seeing if this arrives in our school!