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teachers - what would you like as an end or year present please?

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mckenzie · 01/07/2007 20:41

I remember reading a thread this time last year about this but my searches have proved fruitless.

About 7 or 8 of us mums will be clubbing together. Last year we bought M&S vouchers and a bunch of flowers.

What would you most like to receive from your pupils and their parents?

TIA

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BalletMum · 01/07/2007 21:24

What about sending in a tin of biscuits for the staffroom, some nice tea and coffee or similar? Then they can all share. No way we are spending a tenner....

FluffyMummy123 · 01/07/2007 21:24

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smellysmelly · 01/07/2007 21:24

I buy wine after putting up with mine for a year they bloody deserve it

noonar · 01/07/2007 21:26

ah, yes, home-made, presents...remind me of a story that a colleague of mine tells.

years ago, when she hadnt been teaching long, she put a picture given to her by one of the pupils in the bin. unfortunately, the girl who'd given it to her found the pic and, v upset, gave it back to the teacher. teacher at this point decided to keep the whole class behing until the culprit owned up to throwing awya her precious art work

MrsScavo · 01/07/2007 21:26

It really annoys me when other mums say 2 "Oh we've given Miss X some home made chocolates/soap/biscuits" If I made any of these they would be crap, and binned before Miss X left the school building. (or taken home and laughed at)

Ladymuck · 01/07/2007 21:26

30-odd bottles of wine is quite a lot to lug home though isn't it?!

ChipButty · 01/07/2007 21:40

A homemade thank you card. A bottle of red wine (if you insist!). Please no chocolates! A thank you from the parent at the end of the term is a very lovely thing...

RosaLuxembourg · 01/07/2007 21:43

DD1 is making her teacher a necklace. She is quite good at jewellery making - it will be nice.
I am probably giving all the teachers some nice reading books for their classroom - I gave DD1's teacher a set of Anne Fine last year and she tells me they have had quite a few read out loud to them this year . I would appreciate some thoughts from teachers about whether they would like this or not - I did this because I am really aware that in our school they don't have much of a budget to spend on books. Or would you prefer something more for you?

cece · 01/07/2007 21:43

I think I'd manage to squeeze them into my boot

Once I was given some homemade parsnip wine . Boy was it strong!

ELR · 01/07/2007 21:50

whats wrong with a sodding apple!!

Hulababy · 01/07/2007 21:51

Absolutely nothing ELR if that is what you wish to give.

Most teachers, if not all, are very grateful for any gifts they recieve, and they certainly do not expect them.

ELR · 01/07/2007 21:54

even that is too complicated, granny smith golden delish, braeburn, cox the list goes on

twinsetandpearls · 01/07/2007 21:55

RosaLuxembourg I think that is a good idea, we thought about ordering a set of books from the book people, that is what we did when we left nursery.

MrsScavo · 01/07/2007 21:57

Sometimes writting thankyou cards for teachers is so easy, and the thanks just flow... other times it's so so difficult. DS1's teacher didn't get anything last year. She was lucky we didn't write a letter of complaint to the governers.. that was her end of term pressent!

Ceolas · 01/07/2007 21:58

I often give this, this or a book token.

As an ex teacher, never give candles

MrsScavo · 01/07/2007 21:58

Oooh!, Iv'e just had a great idea, how about a big box of apples, with a note saying apple for the teacher. What do you think?

lilolilmanchester · 01/07/2007 21:59

Last couple of years I got Oxfam unwrapped vouchers for either school meals or text books for African schools. Seemed to go down quite well and makes a change from the usual.

UnConfident · 01/07/2007 21:59

I didn't get pressies this year, as dd will have the same teacher & TA next year so she wasn't saying goodbye to either of them.

I did however give her a pencil & a card each for the them. I left her alone to write To: & From: and when I came back she had written:

To: Mrs XXXXX Yoo are a greet teacher.

To: Mrs XXXXXX Thankyoo for healping me. I like you.

She does know how to spell you but I have no idea where her brain was

I almost pmsl, but I didn't rub them out & correct them, I left the spellings as they were, so the teachers could see that both statements were heartfelt

cece · 01/07/2007 22:00

I have also been given an apple too! But that was for our Victorian Day

MrsScavo · 01/07/2007 22:05

lilolil, that's a really great idea. I've never wanted to give other people Oxfam vouchers, then my sister gave me an Oxfam 'loo in Africa'. I was thrilled. (DH said, "Well, that will be usefull, if we're ever travelling through Africa")

I think I will do that this year, considering DS's teacher is so lovely, and she's getting married (and he's given her a lot of stress )

twinsetandpearls · 01/07/2007 22:06

I am a teacher who loves to get candles, this year I am asking for vouchers I can use towards my dd school fees.

MrsScavo · 01/07/2007 22:06

It wouldn't look like showing off, would it, as in I've given money to charity, and you can see it?

moondog · 01/07/2007 22:07

Er..how do you put the word out then tsap???

MrsScavo · 01/07/2007 22:07

HA! so you have decided, Twinset!

twinsetandpearls · 01/07/2007 22:07

sorry I am just amusing myself at my own expense.