Xmas cards/gifts for nursery staff

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MeadowHay · 29/10/2019 08:41

Hi, what is the etiquette for this? And if you work in a nursery would you actually like a card/gift and if so what kind of gifts? I don't know whether to buy something addressed to the nursery staff, or addressed to the staff in DD's room, or just for DD's keyworker? I feel like just for her keyworker would be a bit unfair because she is close to a few members of staff in the room and we only get marginally more input from her key worker than those others (key worker is fab btw just so are the others!). This is her first Xmas period in nursery and she's my first DC so idk what is the norm here.

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1Lollypop · 29/10/2019 08:59

Hi, normally what i do is cards for kids and staff, and something small for each for teachers like box of chocolates from poundshop, do some good ones this time of year or new diary, and as my sons class is small this year.. only 8 pupils and 4 teachers, iv baught a pack of 10 xmas book bundle for 10 pounds from the works so he can give them out before they break up for the holidays, my daughters class is bigger so she will be giving out cards, and poundshop presants for her 3 teachers :) hope this helps in some way x

nevernotstruggling · 29/10/2019 09:06

I used to buy the posh marks chocolate biscuit boxes that are 3 for 2 and send a stack into nursery. They always lookedhappy with that

Inthemoment38 · 29/10/2019 10:07

This exact thread was on here about a week ago. People said a huge range of things- from a box of Quality Street for the staff room to bottles of champagne and £25 vouchers for every single member of staff!!

The consensus I took from it was personal gifts to named staff was a bit weird, something nice to eat to share in the staff room was best.

SheChoseDown · 29/10/2019 10:16

A posh panettone? Comes in a box.
Our child minder will be getting fizz and chocs. My mum has received vouchers for local garden centre which were great! My friend was gifted two tickets to a show. Depends how much you wanna spend. Our teacher will get a nice bottle of red.

missyB1 · 29/10/2019 10:21

Something to share amongst the staff would be nice (I work in a nursery). A box of nice biscuits or even better a cake (we all love cake!) pp’s idea of a panettone is a good one. An alternative to edibles would be a couple of tubes of good hand cream, we have to wash our hands a million times a day so we all have very dry hands.

HugoSpritz · 29/10/2019 10:34

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MeadowHay · 29/10/2019 13:41

Hugo aw that's such a nice idea. I didn't even think of the chef and you're right, he does such an important job! And my DD loves his food as she eats so well at nursery. She's only 16m btw.

We are a low income family so definitely not planning to spend much, I just want them to know their hard work is appreciated. I was thinking chocs/biscuits type thing but didn't know if in reality the nursery workers get too many and aren't bothered. We gave them a big box of fancy biscuits in the summer for a different religious celebration of ours which they seemed quite confused about but did thank us. But I confess partly an ulterior motive there, was trying to get our events on the map and it worked as the next one they did special stuff for it at nursery .

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NWQM · 29/10/2019 14:20

Personally I think it's nice to thank the whole team with biscuits or chocolates and a little something for the key worker. The other staff in the room will be key workers for other children. If you can the a Christmas card from you thanking each one would be lovely... and people like the chef would be made up with getting a card and positive feedback. I honestly think that this is one of those 'it's the thought that counts' moments.

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