Gift for nursery teacher at end of term

s4mmy

I'm also a nursery teacher and am always amazed at the generosity of our parents....my favourite gifts are the pictures/cards that the children have made themselves and chocolate

cattie

I always avoided giving gifts to nursery & school teachers. Firstly I was a lone parent, struggling to bring up my son with no financial support from my ex.

I always reasoned that the teachers earned a pretty good salary & were being further rewarded with gifts just for doing their job properly.

Am I alone in thinking like this?

pretzelnut

cattie wrote: »

I always avoided giving gifts to nursery & school teachers. Firstly I was a lone parent, struggling to bring up my son with no financial support from my ex.

I always reasoned that the teachers earned a pretty good salary & were being further rewarded with gifts just for doing their job properly.

Am I alone in thinking like this?

NO you are not.

I dont gift gifts either. Its to expensive. Especially as last year my son had 4 teachers in his class, they all ended up with about 20 gifts each from mugs to choccys to flowers.

My son makes a thank you for putting up with me all year card all by himself and i help him write a poem, its free and lasts a lot longer than a bunch of flowers.

I know teachers appreciate it but i would rather make a donation to a class collection and buy 1 gift from all the children, including those who cant afford to contribute.

I think those who buy large gifts for teachers make other parents feel inadequate. Not aimed at any one here but 1 parent at school insists that anything less than expensive jewellery for a gift is being rude.

john0612

wow, some great ideas..... thanks

will bounce around some of the ideas and see what we can come up with

Penny-Pincher!!

I got DD's teacher a wooden apple with a saying on it.

Very cute off Ebay.

PP
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