Monetary gifts for teachers

[WordsAndWorlds]

Hi all I know it's ages until end of year still but have been thinking about a gift for the Year R staff as they've been so wonderful with my son. I know they're inundated with biscuits, chocolate, wine etc. But they're always saying how they wished they had more budget for resources eg books, glue sticks etc...

Is there any way I could make a donation, or gift vouchers etc that would help them specifically with that for their new classes? Would that be allowed or just confiscated by the school? And is that a good gift, or a bit naff?

I would not give cash, but a gift voucher to an office supply store, or one of the teacher supply companies, or a gift card somewhere like Booktopia.

A few years ago a parent bought me a few boxes of books from Scholastic book clubs (they usually have a few in the teacher resource book club brochure) of mixed books for the appropriate age range. They were a great addition to the classroom library.

I wouldn't give actual cash, but I do give vouchers.. for stationary supply stores, bookshops and coffee shops.

Under the school rules the staff should be declaring all gifts received, which is not a real issue when it is the likes of chocolates but as soon as you are getting to gift vouchers etc, it will need to be declared. I am sure that it will be well received but in reality it needs to be treated as a gift to the school, who can use it in any way they wish, rather than to an individual teacher.

Just ask the teacher for a list of what the class would benefit from stationery wise and shop accordingly. Nothing to declare then by the teacher as it's not a personal gift and you get to help said teacher. Win win.

A box of glue sticks, bumper pack of colour pencils, etc would be fab. Or voucher for Amazon.

I asked Baker Ross if they did gift vouchers, thinking I would give DS’s teacher one so he could buy craft stuff whenever his next class ran low. But they said they didn’t...

In the end we said we’d make a financial donation and asked the teacher to make a list of stuff he’d like to buy for the kids with the money. He came up with a bunch of things for the classroom (learning aids, games, etc).