Is it too early to have the "what shall we buy the teacher?" thread yet

[ladymuck]

Though actually my real question is if there is a teacher and a TA in ds's class, I assume there are 2 gifts - are they the same? I think that the TA spends part of her time with another class too.

I can confirm that. I love the home made stuff (Asian kids, bags of samosas yum!!). The sluglet presented her nursery teachers at the end of last year a bag with 6 muffins, made with her grubby little hands (and some help from me) and a card made from some of her more spectacular efforts with glitter glue.

PTA asks for donations from parents (usually around £ 5 per family) and buys flowers for the teachers - easy peasey!

homemade presents

oh and wine

We are going to make some cookies or brownies, a nice box and wrap them for the teachers and TAs. Money is tight this year (ain't it always - I hope they like them as much as my DD likes making them.

wine, wine, always wine.....

I prefer not chocolate as dh eats

I am fairly large and parents assume I eat a lot of chocs I think, which is not the case at all.

However, I am also quite mumsy so they don't seem to think of buying me wine

btw I don't want to sound ungrateful but I would prefer it if the kids listened to my hints.....

LOL

My ds1 barely tells me anything about his day other than "I had lunch" - there's NO chance of him bringing home hints from his teacher subtle or otherwise

Haven't read all this thread but this is my take. Dd's teacher is absolutely fabbity-fab and jolly well deserves a present!! The support staff are brilliant as well and it's good to be able to say thank you to them, as well. So I get something like a really special Xmas decoration for dd's main teacher, something she can put away for 50wks of the year! And I get nice edibles for the rest of the staff, to have with their coffees at break time.

I have, in the past, given them a big arrangement of hyacinths etc in a basket, which stays at school and just comes into bloom as they go back in January, cheering up a miserable time of year.

Because ours is a small school the staff have the time to write individual thank you letters to the children, telling them about their Xmas and looking forward to seeing the child again in January.

So should I just get a nice couple of bottles of wine, and leave it there?

I like DD1's teacher and would like her to have a rollickingly good Christmas.

I get some cheap, but noce smelling candles from Ikea......4 for a £1 last year. Dd has about 10 different teachers (but is still in Primary). We npught a box of Heros and some nice green celophane. We put the cancle with some sweeeta dn warpped it in the celophane and dd made a green labels to go on to each. Whole thing cost less than £10 and that was for lots of teachers. If you only had one to do it would be less than a pound. They kids make the effort to make them look noce. The teacher gets a nice smelly candle, which is soon used up and 4-5 sweets....easility eaten!

NOTHING FOR CHRISTMAS BUT A PRESENT AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.

sorry didn't mean to shout

Round here hardly anyone gives presents, I always do as we like to recieve at my school I usually give a tin of chocs or similar to share amoungst class staff /or staff room as they can be put away until next term.I would give plants rather than flowers as plants live longer!
If you give individual give to TAs and check how many as inmy school often 1 gets missed.

I always get the teacher a bottle of Chablis or something similar and it always seems appreciated.

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I know a few teachers and all of them steer well clear of the homemade edible items and either donate them to the raffle or charity or even throw them out as they jsut would not eat something prepared in someone elses kitchen when thye don't know that person or there hygiene standards. Shocking I know, but I can kind of understand it.

Bottles of wine and a card made by DS all round me thinks

yes, it is too early ;)

Sorry I haven't read the whole thread, but dh is a teacher and while he really appreciates a gift at Christmas or end of the school year, he equally appreciates a well written thank you note (or in a Christmas card).

He gets a LOT of chocolate (fine by us!) and wine (again, fine by me!) and always a few pens, mugs and ties. Similarly his TA always gets smellies, but by far the best present he ever had was a bucket, sponge and biottle of car wash off a child because his was such a state!