Teacher's presents - the other side

Rainey_LB

The last few years we have had collections at Christmas at the end of year for the teachers/teaching assistant, one parent will collect £5 from each parent that wishes to participate, most do so could be up to 30 parents (£150), we then use this money to buy them a card each and purchase local shopping centre vouchers (which can be used in any shop there) with the remaining money and split between them.

As a parent its great as by the time you've bought a card, gift, wrapping you have more than likely spent £5 plus, and you haven't got the hassle of finding something.

The teacher's seem to like, one TA burst into tears when she opened her card with £50 in vouchers in.

We get all the participating children to sign the card or stick a label in from them so the teacher/TA knows who its from.

oligeo

My 4yo is leaving nursery to start school in September, for the nursery I have got Oxfam Unwrapped 'Teach a Teacher', as a gift from the family, as both of my sons have been there and had such a wonderful time. For his actual Key Worker I'm taking him to a pottery painting place to paint a plant pot for her.
My 5yo has got his teacher & TA Oxfam Unwrapped gifts too, 'School equipment'

Sarah

thifty

MrsTine wrote: »

Yes they get paid for what they do... but by no stretch of the imagination do they get paid enough! I know several teachers and the dedication they have to other peoples children is amazing! My next door neighbour will spend almost every evening and most weekends (and a large amount of her holidays too!) preparing and doing either paper work, or preparing crafts for them or correcting their home work. It's not a 9-5... it's more like a 7am till 10pm!
What always shocks me is when she spends HOURS preparing for parent teacher evenings and the parents often don't bother turning up!!! They are not HER kids but she cares more than their own parents... Not saying this is the norm, but I know she has to put up with some horrid parents!
So even if you don't want to or can't afford a little pressie then trust me... a little letter from the kids or a card really truely is enough to bring a tear to her eye and she displays them proudly at home... it takes what? 10 minutes? And it really means the world! Although if I know her then a bottle of wine wouldn't go amiss either :rotfl:
Seriously she wouldn't expect anything, but something from the kids would be so appreciated...
However... £50??? :eek: bit over the top me thinks!!!

I am a secondary school teacher and rarely get any presents. I got one card from someone from my GCSE group this year which said some lovely things inside, made me cry!
In the ten years I have been teaching I have received wine, chocs, smellies, a mug, a picture frame and some candles. All were very much appreciated. I also got a home made lavender bag which I still have. It's lovely.

I don't expect anything but a thank you card is always nice. If I were to receive a present than I would love a covered mug that I could take on break duty. Home made stuff is the best though (even if the parent has had a very big helping hand!)

I do love my job and often am like the woman described above. I buy a lot of things out of my own money for the kids and always buy chocs at christmas and easter for them.

The age-group of kids I teach means that a smile and a grunt of "thanks miss, have a nice holiday" is still cool enough for them not to be teased by their mates or be accused of being a suck up!:rotfl:

sethsgran

My daughter made simple homemade chocolates for my 4yr old grandson to give to his nursery teschers. She used Ikea ice cube shaped trays, melted some chocolate and put a bit in each tray. When that had set she added a filling, eg, honeycomb/raisins/caramel stuff from the tin. They then topped them off with more chocolate and left them to set. They then put them into cellophane cones and he took a couple of cones to school for the staff to share.

wannabe_moneysaver

Hi, I'm a long time lurker on these boards and have found this great thread. My 4 year old leaves nursery at the end of the month to go to nursery school (attached to the primary school he will attend) and I would like to help him make some homemade thank you cards/gifts.

In particular, I really want to thank the cook. Besides being a great cook she is so jolly and friendly. My child has tried and liked lots of new meals thanks to her.

Can any of you clever people help me out with an appropriate poem or even a couple of lines he could add to a drawing or card?

Thanks in advance :beer:

PS Her name is Eileen, if that helps/can be incorporated!

benbenandme

M&S have some lovely packets of seeds in their food shops, they're in the flowers area on one of those plastic hanging strips, and they're marked 99p but scan at 49p, and they are really pretty

tattoed_bum

I made these for my ds teachers and for the 2 brilliant ladies in the office who help him every day .
I put them in nice little boxes ,they didnt cost much to make about a £1 each but they did take about an hour each to make
they seemed to really appreciate them ds said he was embarrassed as they all kept hugging him and saying thanks

Kit1

tattoed_bum wrote: »

I made these for my ds teachers and for the 2 brilliant ladies in the office who help him every day .
I put them in nice little boxes ,they didnt cost much to make about a £1 each but they did take about an hour each to make
they seemed to really appreciate them ds said he was embarrassed as they all kept hugging him and saying thanks

Hi

These are great would it be really rude of me to ask how you made them

tattoed_bum

Kit1 wrote: »

Hi

These are great would it be really rude of me to ask how you made them

hi not at all ,the book marks I bought from ebay ,i then attached a bit of chain to each bookmark ,I added the beads to some headpins and then added them to the chains ,they are pretty easy to make .

you will only need some cutting pliers and some round nose pliers for them .If you pop over to the jewellery making thread some of the girls on there have blogs which describe how to make things a bit easier than I can