What are general mn opinions on the school giving the children a souvenir of the jubilee

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I don't want to influence results with my opinion. yet

We have been asked to cough up. I dont like the royals and object to paying for a coin which will be promptly lost by ds.

what if the school were paying?

I'm not a fan of the royals really, but always appreciate an extra day off work, so weddings and jubilees are all good!

If the school wanted to pay to give my DD something, I would have no objections at all, but if I was expected to pay, I would be saying, no thanks!

We have the cost put on the bill (indie school) and have to write in if we opt out. I will probably end up buying the damned thing due to apathy.

If the school were paying, I'd still object. spend the money on something useful. (before the royal wedding, my dcs all got given a coin in a presentation case. They were unimpressed and now they have been lost!)

We got given stuff at the SIlver Jubilee, and I think it's nice to commemorate a significant historic time. You don't have to be wildly royalist to acknowledge the Queen has served her country with incredidible diligence and sense of duty over 60 years doing the same job.

Re the paying / not - I guess even if you aren't asked to pay, then you could still think "that money could have been spent on x,y, or z instead".
If, however, you normally give the children some kind of gift (? I dunno, some PTAs give the children a gift at Christmas ?) then, why not something to commemorate the year.

Goes off to pick splinters out of bum

Presume coin is legal tender - if you don't like it you could just go shopping with it. Does it cost more than it's worth?

I'm a republican, but if the school was paying, I would have no objection. There's no ignoring that the woman's been on the throne for 60 years! It's historically significant.

We would quite like it, I think DH and I both still have a mug and spoon from the silver jubilee.

[meh] if I didn't have to pay for it it would be OK, if I did, I would refuse.
I already pay £4 a month to the diocese, if it comes out of that, fair dos.

I think it's nice although I still have my silver jubilee coin/mug etc so it gives me a warm glow. Am meh about the royals, don't care either way.

Depends on how it is being paid for. School resources are already over stretched and I would not want to see PTA money used on it. So, I guess that whilst I don't have problem with it in principle, unless parents are going to pay for it themselves, would rather not.

I had a 1977 Jubilee crown, in fact think it is upstairs somewhere. It doesn't happen often.

I would like it. Our town does a parade, fun fair and lots of other things and all primary schools are involved. So DD will get all exited, I mean she will be nearly 5 then and Kings, Queens, princesses etc are very much en vogue with her at the moment.

I think I will buy one if DD doesn't get one from her school.

I had a "Charles&Diana announcing the birth of their first child" mug, my mum still uses it for cooking :-) so I bought her one of William&Kate wedding mugs and had her in stitches.

I think it's a lovely idea.

I think it's stupid. Why not buy something useful for the school instead? Even if the souvenir only costs a quid per child, that's hundreds of pounds that could be spent on education. Will be furious if our school wastes money on this, frankly.

Bah humbug to the nay sayers!

I like the idea. I think just because we have a royal family most people ignore it or take it for granted. It isn't until you go abroad that you realise how much other people from countries like our royal family. When we visited the US for the first time in 1986 the first words uttered by immigration was "You'll miss the wedding" (Prince Andrew and Fergie - as if we had a personal invitation!). On the day they got married there was a huge TV screen in the hotel lobby and it was packed with all the hotel guests.

However, it is a historical event and I think it is nice to have something to commemorate it. Only one other monarch has managed to reach a diamond jubilee and that was Queen Victoria who reigned for 63 years in total.

I'd rather they got something for the school, such as a bench with the date carved into it, or repaved the dodgy pathway and put a plaque on one of the stones.

Stupid idea. The are much better things to do with the money.

I'm fine with it.
I have had chats to DS2 about the street parties we had and have shown him the mementoes we got. I was about his age so it is a nice thing and whether or not you like the Queen or the Royal Family it will be part of history of our country.

I still have the spoons my school gave me for the Silver Jubilee and the 1981 Royal Wedding. They are nice things to have. I have wondered where the money came from though,as I remember there been a shortage of paper, books and pencils in my 1970s primary school. I always assumed they were donated TBH. I don't think I 'd want to be asked to pay for one, or for it to come out of the school budget.

I'm interested in this thread because I am on the committee of our school PTA and I would like the children to receive a memento from us. They all got a bookmark when the school celebrated it's 50th birthday and will receive a mug when the first and middle school amalgamate. The Jubilee is an event of unique historical significance and like the London Olympics it would be nice for our children to look back on these events with fondness and be able to tell their children/grandchildren, I was there and this is how we celebrated!
I won the painting competition at my street party in 1976 aged 4 with an amazing splodge of red & black paint which was a royal guardsman! My mum still has it framed on the wall and I still have the commemorative coin! Memories are what makes our childhoods special, lets impose our cynical adult nature on them.
Come on you old humbugs, lets celebrate!

Tinytlker- you might find it encouraging that I was in a minority of one on our PTA committee when we voted on spending an insane amount of money on Jubilee mugs!

I'm expecting this to be raised at our PTA meeting next week, and I'm expecting the same reaction as when someone suggested we pay for commemorative medals to mark the royal wedding. There was a stunned slilence followed by everyone bursting into laughter. We then all admitted to still having our silver jubilee/royal wedding mugs (depending on age) but still voted no. I'd think it a very poor use of very limited resources.

Up to then I think I'd probably thought that the jubilee mug I had was a gift from the queen. She can afford it. My children's school can't.

I'd be happy with it as i remember getting a commemorative coin for the Silver Jubilee. I'd even be happy to contribute as i think it's something my DCs would like (though i'm not particularly a Royalist).

I think it would be nice for the children to have something but I would object to the cost being met from school funds. Money is tight enough as it is. If it's paid for by the PTA then that's different.