We moved to the UK from overseas in December and my 9 year old started a UK school for the first time. He was supposed to start the beginning of January but due to lockdown, he joined in with the online learning provision. He has physically been in school since March.
Anyway, his teacher has done a fabulous job of helping him get settled. During lockdown with us he did regular video calls with us to make sure my son was doing ok and if we needed any more support as obviously he hadn't met my son in person at this stage. When he was able to physically go into school, again, he made great efforts to make sure he settled in as well as possible. I listened in on some of his lessons during lockdown and he is a fun, caring, and engaging teacher. In fact, some lessons made me want to go back to school!
Anyway, it is coming up to the end of the school year and I think it is common here to give the teacher I present. Obviously, I don't know this teacher well and I'm practically minded so I am sure he ends up with lots unwanted gifts.
I was thinking of putting a letter together to the headmaster asking him to pass on my thanks to the teacher and to outline all the things that he did to help my son settle in and how much I appreciate it. Starting a new school is difficult at the best of times, moving from another country makes it even more challenging and in the middle of a pandemic, even more challenging still.
As teachers, if you were the teacher in question, what would you prefer me to do? Letter, Gift or Gift and Letter