£5 gift for a 15 year old girl

Luckystar

Tesco are selling gift sets half price at the moment, this looks suitable for nails varnish set
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=279335758

Valli

Another vote for Boots 17; Soap and Glory or a Lynx set!

daisiegg

craftysarah wrote: »

Am I the only one that feels uneasy about a teacher buying a 15 year old a present? I'm sure it's something that's always been done in your school and not thought too much about but having done a lot of safeguarding training I'm wondering if it's a good idea? Sorry to put a downer on a thread with lots of helpful advice

Oh for heaven's sake. It is an anonymous whole form secret Santa that both I and the other teacher I share the form with are involved in. I am going to be buying a generic gift set from Boots, not a bottle of wine or a copy of 50 Shades of Grey! I also give the whole form something chocolate each and a card for Christmas. I give each member of the form a cupcake on their birthday. I also give them something at Easter. Should I stop? (Actually as this is MSE and there are 33 in the form....yes I probably should!)

I totally get safeguarding and my safeguarding training is completely up to date, thank you. I can see absolutely no risk in participating in a whole form secret Santa like this. Many of my colleagues do the same with their forms (including male teachers). The students ask us to be involved....how would they react if I said 'no I am not taking part in your secret Santa although you have asked me to and want me to, because of....er...safeguarding!!' ?!?!

Thanks for your concern but really, it is fine.

daisiegg

Spendless wrote: »

They won't know which out of their form has got the present from teacher. It's anonymous. Someone must have got diasiegg though if she participates. Think she's very brave with that and a bunch of teens. :rotfl:

Ahh no they are very good and usually buy sensible things! I think I got a scented candle last year.

You're right, they won't know who I bought a gift for. That is one of the reasons why I don't intend to do anything remotely homemade or hamper-ish, or indeed wrap in any fancy way, so as to avoid the gift being identifiable as having come from me. Tbh when I have bought fancy notebooks in previous years it has probably been fairly obvious that it was from the teacher. I just thought they are a bit old for notebooks now.

craftysarah

Fair enough, I really didn't mean to insult you daisiegg or mean to imply you didn't have/understand safeguarding training, it's just something that I've never come across before in any of our local schools and I honestly think it would be frowned on around here where teachers can't even put an arm round a child to comfort them (which BTW I think is totally over the top).

daisiegg

craftysarah wrote: »

Fair enough, I really didn't mean to insult you daisiegg or mean to imply you didn't have/understand safeguarding training, it's just something that I've never come across before in any of our local schools and I honestly think it would be frowned on around here where teachers can't even put an arm round a child to comfort them (which BTW I think is totally over the top).

I would not touch a child in any way to comfort them or for any other reason.

But I genuinely don't see why it could be frowned upon to participate in an anonymous whole class secret Santa. I am as careful as the next person about never being alone in a room with a child, making sure any email communication is also copied to my head of department, no touching at all even if someone is hurt or upset etc....but I genuinely don't see how there could be a problem with this. The kids organise the secret Santa, do all the names etc, and just ask me to pull a name out one day. I buy a very generic present and write the label in block capitals with my left hand. It is not even as though the teacher could be accused of engineering it so they get a particular student to buy for or anything. I just....don't see how it could be frowned upon!

Thanks for commenting though, I know you weren't trying to insult me.

LEJC

craftysarah wrote: »

it's just something that I've never come across before in any of our local schools and I honestly think it would be frowned on around here.

secret santa is in a lot of schools nowadays, certainly in the secondary school my child goes to...only difference being its a £10 gift!!!!!!..and yes the tutor taks part too...the gifts are all quite generic and usually a bottle or 2 for the tutor.

Its certainly been a a challenge to think of things to get these kids you hardly know especially when son comes home from school on a friday and announces the name of someone in the class that he needs to take a present for on Monday!...and actually I find it easier to come up with things for the girls rather than the boys

Personally if given the choice I would much rather donate £10 to a charity of the schools choice but hey ho its their choice to get involved with secret santa...

...and then hubby comes home and announces that they too are doing secret santa at work so off I trot for another gift of nominal value,and slightly less generic because its for an adult..

Ive actually got a box of random things that as a family we've "collected" over the years varying from suduko toilet paper through to obscure shaped stress balls,so infact something as generic as a tin of sweets or bottle of bubble bath is always welcome as at least it will get used!

Glad youve got a present sorted Daisie!

Engagedtobaz

http://www.superdrug.com/make-up/accessorize-nail-wardrobe/invt/506152&bklist=?utm_source=affiliatewindow

Saw this and thought it might be useful

[Deleted User]

http://www.superdrug.com/make-up/accessorize-rock-star-set/invt/530650&bklist=

How about this set from Superdrug, I've gone for it this year for a family member this year (14yrs old)?

It contains:
Body Wash
Body Butter
Mascara
Blusher
3 x Nail Polish
Bronzer

We are on a tight budget this year and this gift costs £5. A good sized gift as well.
Hope this helps x

LE3

No7 nailvarnish kit would be perfectly fine, especially if it's in funky colours like blue & purple - pink, pink & beige would be a bit of a no at age 15!