Gifts for nursery staff?

[spiralqueen]

My DD is just about to move up from the small baby room to the under two's room at her nursery. She has had the same key worker throughout her 10 months in the first room and the other two staff in the room have been there most of the time.

My question is whether I should be giving a thankyou gift to her keyworker/other staff and what would be appropriate? We have developed a good relationship with them all and DD has been extremely settled and happy in their care.

DD and I have made a thankyou card together to send to them in her name - she scribbled, my writing was slightly more legible.

Thoughts?

dts have just moved up a room (they were two at the weekend) they have taken in today a Thorntons 'plaque' with icing writing on it saying 'Thank you love E x' & 'Thank you love J x' on them to give to their keyworkers

I did this when my ds went up a class - just gave them a pretty little scented candle each. There were 3 staff in total and they all contributed to my ds being very happy at nursery.

and we made a little card too

how kind all of you are

it is really nice to get atoken of appreciation from parents

please include all the staff in the room. Just because a certain member of staff is your child's key worker, it doesn't mean they spend their time exclusively with your child. all staff have an equal responsibility for all the children in the room.

Thanks ladies. I managed to catch the chattiest mother of my DD's classmates. Her DD went up a couple of months before my DD and also has a DS who has been all the way through nursery. She said the only time she has done anything was when DS left nursery to go to school and then she bought a humungous amount of chocolate for all of the nursery staff.

She said that it wasn't usual to mark the transition and so (with a few misgivings) we stuck to the card.

We did buy all the staff in the room a gift at Xmas which I am pleased we did.

hotcrosspurepurple when we bought gifts at Xmas we bought all the same thing - am I right in thinking that would be what you recommend? That wouldn't offend the child's key worker?

SQ
it is nice to include everyone but, really, we don't expect it
you need a thick skin to work with children and their parents