Teachers end of year gifts

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We used to do class collections in prep and it worked great. Unfortunately that's not the case anymore with secondary, everyone makes own arrangements.

What kind of end‑of‑year gifts do people usually buy for teachers, and what’s the typical budget per gift?

It's a London day school if this makes any difference.

To make it a bit more complicated, teacher is male and child will give the gift, so no alcohol.

My DD will pick a couple of teachers she wants to buy for and that’s it.

I'm not sure I care, given how much I'm paying. Chocolates, bath salts, room diffusers, some sort of neutral present around the £20 mark.

Both DH and I are secondary teachers/form/house tutors and we have had bottles of wine (both) beer (him), chocolate (both) flowers (me) a coffee voucher (me - the student in particular had seen me in this cafe with the dog).

I don’t understand? We don’t give secondary teachers gifts generally in Scotland. There's too many. Maybe a card for a favourite teacher. Primary teachers either get a voucher from class, sweets, Prosecco, hand decorated gift etc

Wine would be a great option I think, but is this acceptable for a child to give to teacher?

this all would work great for a female teacher though. I also know that tutor doesn't have sweet tooth so not sure about chocolates.

What will she buy?

It's only DC's tutor for us.

I wouldn't bother. A voucher if you must, for somewhere like m&s then they can chose to spend on alcohol, clothes, food, flowers, bath stuff or whatever.

Of course!
I knew a teacher come home with 8 bottles one year.
Always the risk you won’t know what the teacher likes but it’s the thought that counts.

I don’t buy for teachers but do treat ds’ amazing sna.

And what about tee total teachers? Or those with an alcohol free lifestyle? The thought then if you give them alcohol is there absolutely was none. So you may as well just get a voucher. No thought there either.

I keep all of my cards and messages from my pupils. Any gift is always appreciated but I treasure the cards the most. This year it's been mainly wine and chocolates, but also a lovely book on a craft that I run a lunchtime club in. A voucher is a safe option.

A student has no way of knowing that the teacher is tee total. My friend is. He would thank the student for thinking of him enough to buy him a present and then gift it to someone.

Although that is rare - children tend to turn teachers to drink 🤣🤣🤣

£5 Costa coffee gift cards!

Cards are the most treasured things!

This is secondary school. I see the teacher once a year and my teen DC has no idea about their preferences. I bought nice chocolates last two years, but it's getting repetitive.

ETA: of course there will be a card, usually be all sign it, DC and family

😂I can well imagine

Maybe a costa giftcard or similar?

Nothing it is then!

My DC just give a gift voucher to their respective House Parent, Matron and Tutor.

We stopped doing gifts in secondary as instead of one or two teachers it was now five or six or more. Unless they had gone above and beyond we didn’t bother.

I used to give every subject teacher a very decent bottle of champagne. Then as the Dcs got older I would only give to his form teacher, maybe one other teacher and the school Matron that. DS was always with Matron because he falls apart with anxiety and she deserved multiple bottles tbh

Now- probably his form teacher and one other teacher. And still champagne. If they don't drink (they do) then they can pass it on.

I will say also- one of his form teachers was once given by a student a beautifully hand embroidered cushion with her name on it. I sat on it once when I was in the staff room one time 3 years after she had both retired and moved to Spain......

It never occurred to me to give secondary school teachers , even form tutors, gifts. I taught in a state school and never got so much as a card. I know from a friend who taught at my son’s private school that they could be given cases of wine and offered use of holiday accommodations. DS is a teacher and loves receiving cards from the pupils. He has a drawer full of vouchers.

I had no idea giving gifts to secondary teachers was a thing. I would put into the collection at primary and occasionally I would help my kids buy an individual present for a teacher they especially liked, if they expressed an interest in doing so. We'd also send in a tin of quality street and some pens and glue sticks each Christmas.

Have never done anything for secondary. Recall when I was at secondary there would be collections if a staff member was leaving. The form captain would organise and we'd all chip in a bit from pocket/lunch money. Parents weren't involved.