Do you get the nursery nurses a xmas presant?

[bogie]

Is this the done thing?
Ds has bee going to the nursery about 6 months all the nursery nurses are lovley and he really likes it there so i don't begrudge doing it but i wanted to know if anyone else does

Last year I bought DS's key worker something extra and gave a huge tin of chocolates for everyone else to share

don't think you need to go OTT, but a little something is nice IMO

Oh yes, a little something is a must / lovely /appropriate.

I normally buy chocolates as well, thinking about home made fudge or something this year.

For my ds3 nursery and ds2 school as his sn and has loads of teachers and assistants i have brought them highland shortbread biscuits from m&s. Come in alovely tin and are 7.99 each but bogof at the moment. bit of a change to choccie

At my last nursery unless the gift had our name on then they all went into the office and were shared out amongst all the staff across the nursery.

dynamicnanny (and any other (ex) nursery workers) - what would you have preferred? Personal present for keyworker only, shareable present (biscuits, choccies, etc), both, or something else entirely? I never know what is best....

wine
box biscuits to share
box chocolates to share

I think it depends on the nursery nurse if your keyworker does alot for your child or your child is close to their keyworker it is nice to get a little something for them - wine, biscuits, chocolate, toiletries eg lush etc but if they have an all round approach where everybody loves and cares for our child and your child has no main attachment to the keycarer then a boc of chocolates to share between the room staff with all their names on

I was really touched when a couple of the parents got me personally a little something for Xmas as well as stuff for all the staff in the room. It wasn't the present that mattered, it the feeling that they appreciated me and what I did for their child. One of them I wasn't even the child's key-worker but she'd formed a really strong bond with me.

Personal cards are a really lovely thing to get too.

So wine OK then? I wish I knew more about what they are planning for staff - for example, if they are having a party then I could get 1 or 2 bottles of something fizzy for them to share, but if not then it leaves them (presumably) raffling or dividing by some other system to decide who takes what home...

[sigh] it's so hard - DD has a keyworker whom she adores, but she is also v. fond of a couple of other carers - so where do you stop?!