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i always get my sons teacher an end of year present but as DS1 gets lots of help it gets expensive!!! He has 2 teachers, 2 TA's and his escourt on the bus who is lovely! Then i have my younger sons teachers too, so altogether i buy for seven people!

Do you all get your childrens teacher an end of year present too, or is just us northerners!!!

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Hiya - I usually sort J out with thank you teacher pressies...this year he had several diff teachers for specific subjects as well as his form teacher and LSU teacher.

 

His form teacher and LSU teacher were dead certs for a pressie each - then asked him to choose if he had any fav teachers from the others.

 

Did 4 pressies altogether each with a card - but have cut back on the size and brand of the choccies!! :)

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I never got my teachers presents when I was at school except once. I had a teacher who was always losing her red pen, so all the class clubbed together and bought a red biro each, we attached them to string so she could wear them all around her neck :lol: My mum is a teacher and she normally gets one or two gifts, but not from every student. Last year a student bought her an enormous bunch of flowers!

 

But I think it's different now. At work we have a big stand of "thank you teacher" cards, and all the shops have special teacher presents in them. Perhaps there are some people who could share a gift like a box of chocolates.

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I buy for ds#1's teacher (who's leaving the school) and his 2 support workers and this year as we are leaving I feel that I should buy for the general classroom assistant too (only occured to me after I saw him shouting at her the other day! She's leaving next week too)

 

Ds#2 has a nursery teacher (leaving! I don't know what's going on at our current school but all the staff are leaving or have left!) and a nursery nurse who have had him for the last 2 years and have tried their absolute best with him and been kicked and hit many times so they deserve something nice.

 

Then the 2 receptionists are leaving too (!) and I'd like to get them something for the many phone calls, one in particular is lovely. I din't think I can afford much for them tbh but will definately do a card.

 

And another classroom assistant is leaving (!!!!) who was so lovely to G when he first started the school (she used to take him off to do jobs when he was upset) is leaving so I'll get her a card.

 

I'm also doing a little party bag for ds#1's class for him leaving and also will let ds#2 take some sweets into nursery as he'll starting a different school to everyone else in September (the mainstream bit of where ds#1 is going).

 

Let me see.....5 gifts and cards and another 4 cards. And lots of sweets!

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We do his teacher and his language unit teacher and the headteacher (who is brilliant so deserves it!), then ben takes one prezzie for whichever TA he feels has been about most/most helpful... If the school keep chopping and changing TA's that's their problem, not ben's or mine, and four prezzies is enough!

This year is ben's last priomary year, so the prezzie for the head will be a biggy and i'll also send something in for the senco...

Insane isn't it? The only present my teachers got from me when i was at school was the pleasure of my company. They get paid HANDSOMELY for crissake :whistle::devil:;) - why should we send em prezzies too?

 

 

Right, I'm orf before bard etc get here :D

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My little girl's teach isn't getting a present 'cos I don't like her, she's done dd no good, and she's an old bat.

 

son's got loads to buy for, 4 teaching assistants, senco, teacher and head..who have all been brilliant and thay deserve something, (s**nsbury's have got a 1/2 price jewellry sale)

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My little girl's teach isn't getting a present 'cos I don't like her, she's done dd no good, and she's an old bat.

 

:lol::lol:

 

Same here. I usually get prezzies for the two boys' LSAs, classroom assistants and teachers, which did get veeery expensive last year. This year I'm just doing the main LSAs, so just three people. The teachers have been a waste of space this year. :whistle:

 

edited to amend incoherence!!!

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I'm going to make some cakes and a card with DS and let the teachers and TAs share them. It's so much cheaper and I'm hoping they will appreciate something that he's helped to make :)

 

Or maybe I'm just a cheapskate? :rolleyes:

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im going to buy 4 little pressies and 4 cards,oh and theres an volunteer helper at katies school whose lovely

for steven he is leaving his unit so getting a new key worker :crying: his key worker is lovely and im gutted,shes going to get something spesh,dont know what but she deserves every penny!!

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I buy for the teacher, the head n the secretary cos she is so good with ds n runs her backside off after him bless her.

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This year:

 

Class teacher - 4 bottles of real ale and some chocolate. He's been amazing for J and I'd like to give him the moon on a stick but they don't sell them in Sainsbo's.

 

Two other teachers who do other lessons, and the Head - chox.

 

Lollipop lady who always has a little chat with J on the way to school each morning - wine gums.

 

I've got a box of chox for the secretaries because the place would grind to a halt without them so they deserve it.

 

J also has private piano lessons with an ace teacher who comes to the house - real ale for her too.

 

Home made chocolate chip cookies for the guitar tutor.

 

Christmas is cheaper - I bake sackfuls of cranberry and orange muffins and mince pies and everyone gets some.

 

Karen

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Where on earth did this buying teachers present spring from? Do you buy your work mate a present when you go on holiday?

 

Nope I buy nothing, they are doing their jobs. If a teacher is leaving and I feel they are deserving of my contribution I will put money in the pot.

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All the mums in R's class put �3.00 in and buy vouchers (BHS, Debenhams, M&S, Next - depending on the teacher) and bunch of flowers for teacher and TA.

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I think it's always nice to say 'thank you' for a job well done, whether someone is paid to do that job or not :)

 

I think professionals who try hard for our kids deserve some positive feedback.

 

Bid :)

 

Also wanted to add that at Christmas there are always one or two parents at the residesi school where I work who give the care staff presents (usually a huge tin of sweets or biccies). Of course we are paid to do our job, but it is just so nice to feel appreciated, because the vast majority of us do try to do our jobs the very best we can because we are all very aware that we are looking after the most important people in the parents' lives.

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I have that problem to. I have lost count the amount of TA's my girl has had this year. On top of this my youngest son has TA support as well. I think I am going to buy various bars of chocolate and biscuits and they can share it out. It's nice to say thank you, but I would be broke if I had to buy something individual for them all!!

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Normally I buy for my sons teacher and his LSA. My son has a full time LSA

 

But this year he is leaving his junior school and so I would like to buy his LSA a nice present.

 

They have been together for four years, but I don't know what to buy.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

lyn

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Hi

 

I was going to buy pressies for my son's teachers on their last day at school, until ...

 

I passed his learning assistant who was sauntering along the road several miles from school, whilst I was driving to work. She clearly wasn't going into school. Given that I had difficulty getting my son to school and once I did I could hear how chaotic and noisy things were in class (I believed Rs LA was present!), only to discover he was basically unsupported, I soon changed my mind about pressies.

 

R will be going into P3 after the holidays and I'd been told he had been receiving 1-2-1 full-time support since P1 which was to continue, yet at a recent review meeting had to challenge the HT because that will be changing to part-time shared support, I feel utterfly misled. Staff have been economical with the truth bearing in mind I've specially mentioned 1-2-1 full-time support and no-one's mentioned otherwise. I probably sound like I'm being harsh, but I felt given recent events I'd be being two-faced.

 

In previous years, during sale times (even if it's months in advance!) I've tended to buy a few bits and pieces eg compact mirrors, letter opener sets, and the like for end of year pressires.

 

Caroline

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Normally I buy for my sons teacher and his LSA. My son has a full time LSA

 

But this year he is leaving his junior school and so I would like to buy his LSA a nice present.

 

They have been together for four years, but I don't know what to buy.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

lyn

 

Lynne, we're in a similar position -one of ds#1's support workers has had him since he was 5. My idea is to give her a little photo album of him - photos of the years she has known him so 5 to 8. I was going to get a photo book from Truprint but some of the photo's wouldn't load properly and I've now left it too late so it'll have to be photos in an album.

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L wont let me buy anything to give to his teacher! It's kind of strange. He shy's away from anything that is kind of personnal! It freaks him out!

The kids had to do a little diary for a week as part of homework and he just wouldn't do it! He finds after christmas and summer holidays really tough cos the kids talk about what they did in the holidays and he wont contribute at all to that.

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I can't see it lasting much longer for us, tbh. I've just told J that he should be budgeting his own pocket money once he's ten and he'll be expected to contribute towards presents for teachers as well as Christmas and birthdays for family and friends. That'll make him think twice about random classroom assistants!

 

Karen

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joe and keira leave nursery ths tem - i dont really one to buy anything cos i have to pay for their nursery care and the nursery is rubbish!!! however what ive decided to do is as i run a fancy dress business is to get a fancy dress costume each from joe and keira and donate that to the nursery so im not really buying anything for the teaching staff as such as i have no respect for them!

 

ben is moving up a class and i assume his ta's going with him. will get a little bix of chocs for his teacher as she has been good to him but hes changed teacher 3 x this year as he started the school in reception an dtheyve slowly over the year moved him up so hes now in yr 1/2

 

its hard cos i know that ben has input from so many good people at school bt i cant afford tobuy for everyone!

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I HAD encouraged Jay to start a painting for the unit, which I was going to get framed as he's leaving to go to another site. I WAS going to get cards for the teacher and TA and also bake some fish and snail shaped cookies for him to share with everyone but after today I feel very bitter and angry and don't feel inclined to do anything nice for anyone there anymore. They're not even having a leaving 'do' or anything for Jay, it'll just be a question of, well, bye. I feel like they don't care, so why should I go to an effort to say thanks. :crying:

 

~ Mel ~

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I usually just give a card to the class teacher, but as my son is leaving primary this year I feel I'd like to do a bit more - maybe send in nice a box of chocs for the staff, and for the first time ever I'll probably give a card to the head who has improved the school so much since L was there. O has been really happy there.

 

I've sorted out a load of books to give to the school library - but that doesn't really count, even though they're in really good condition.

 

In year 5 O had the teacher from hell who gave L such a hard time 10 years previously. I would like to have given her something as a token of my appreciation, but I couldn't find a triffid. :ph34r:

 

 

K x

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I'm going to get a bottle of Pinot Grigio rose :devil::clap: for both my littlies' teachers as DD is going to secondary school, and DS is moving to another primary school near us so we can walk!

 

Bid :)

 

We await with anticipation the 'grooming' sets that DH invariably gets...he's had a beard for the last 10 years! :lol:

 

Christmas is always great, because we never need to buy Christmas chocs/sweets :thumbs:

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When I taught in secondary school I never got anything. :( It's not the done thing at that level, I think as the parents aren't so involved and there are too many teachers. Either that, or they all hated me. :lol:

 

I did treasure one card from a year 7 pupil in my English class saying "You are my only best teacher". :wub: I crossed out "only best" wrote "favourite" in red above it and sent it back to her.

 

 

(the card was real, the rest is a joke :o;) )

 

K x

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Present for B's form tutor, the SENCO and the assistant SENCO.

Card for the Headteacher.

Chocolates for my two TAs, the LSA and the Reading support lady.

 

 

And sweeties and crisps for the 30 in my class.

I used to buy little gifts, until a couple of years of children unwrapping them, sneering, using them as missiles and then dumping them because they were 'cheap'

Never seen a brat dump chocolate, even 'cheap' rubbish.

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Monkey makes cards for whoever he wants to - and i give him a set amount of money, so he can choose a present himself.

 

It's very interesting watching him choose - it becomes very obvious who he feels has helped him the most - and who hasn't! :ph34r:

 

:D

 

I'm always delighted to get a pressie from the kiddle-winks. But the ones that always get to me :tearful: are the hand made cards - with something lovely written in them by the parents :)

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Oh oh - Ben made a card for the headmistress, who is also retiring at the end of term. I meant to post the whole thing, 'cos he did the whole design himself on the PC one sunday arvo a couple of weeks back, but I forgot to upload it to photobucket

 

anyways, here's the pome he wrote:

 

********************

School Headteacher Poem

 

The headteacher

Top of them all,

Choosing the teacher

To teach the class

Doing all the paperwork

Then you retire

And become

A Lazy Daisy!

 

Love from Ben

********************

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We too have a lot of people who support dd at school and it can get very expensive. We always make presents for them (sort of pay back time for everything they send to me :lol: only joking) This year we used fimo and she made fridge magnets which I thought were brill. As dd is leaving to go to secondary she designed a cactus arrangement in a glass bowl where she used coloured sands and gravel, which was sent to all staff at school. I too think its a nice way to say thank you to people who I think have gone the extra mile so to speak, which in dds school the staff do.

 

 

Tilly

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Hi,

 

I am afraid I do not buy teachers presents. However, I have written a letter of thanks to the very supportive team who have been going out of their way with H this year.

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Feeling a bit better after yesterday's probs, so have organized cards for two members of staff, baked loads of cookies in the shape of fish and snails and iced them and decorated with hundreds and thousands and smarties for Jay to share at breaktime and he's finished a lovely painting tonight of, yep, fish and snails, as a gift to the Unit for them to put up in the office, as he's leaving to go to another site tomorrow. I'd never buy presents, I don't think, I'd always make them, I wouldn't know what to buy anyway and I'm sure they get enough chocs.

 

~ Mel ~

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I hadn't a CLUE people did this to be honest ! 'End of Year presents' ? I did wonder how my son came home with a present from some classmate this year, it didn't occur to me there was some accepted 'system' that did this ! No one ever told me.... I rarely meet any other parent.....I can't be bothering with all that frankly, its like kids parties everyone tries to outdo each other or something, I don't buy into it. I refuse to join this 'rat race'. As far as thanking the teacher for her help I do this every week, and when I attend the school too, but I don't do the other stuff.....

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I have never bothered until now, dd has just left primary school so I thought it was fitting. I had to keep the numbers down so picked the 4 members of staff who work in her class only. I felt bad that I didn't get her escort and driver, but she has only had these ones for 6 weeks and I haven't seen the old ones.

 

Anyway, I thought I'd do something other than chocs and wine so I had a look round tesco and found some pretty little notebooks, they got one each in a little gift bag, and I sent a card to the whole school to thank everyone. Her LSAs were over the moon :thumbs:

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I have never bothered until now, dd has just left primary school so I thought it was fitting. I had to keep the numbers down so picked the 4 members of staff who work in her class only. I felt bad that I didn't get her escort and driver, but she has only had these ones for 6 weeks and I haven't seen the old ones.

 

Anyway, I thought I'd do something other than chocs and wine so I had a look round tesco and found some pretty little notebooks, they got one each in a little gift bag, and I sent a card to the whole school to thank everyone. Her LSAs were over the moon :thumbs:

 

 

Just WHO started this fad ? and why ? I can understand keeping the teachers onside (!), but where does it all end ? Do we start leaving tips at the door ? persents for cleaners/janitors? what ? Is it not some form of 'moral blackmail' and one-upmanship ? ( I just tell them my name IS Jones so they should keep up with me lol)........... sit back watch 'em go :thumbs:

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To be honest, MM, as someone who sometimes gets 'thank you' presents from the parents of the kids I look after, it's just lovely to have that kind of positive feedback. I don't see it as 'moral blackmail' or anything like that :(

 

Doesn't have to be a present, it's lovely when we get a card, and the other night a parent rang to ask after their child and at the end of the conversation said 'I just wanted to say thank you for all you do for my child as I don't get a chance to see you.' That made my night! :D

 

Bid :)

 

T

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MM, I don't think it's a fad to be polite! There's nothing faddy about giving a card or a gift to say thank you to someone for being nice or helpful. It's no different from leaving a box a chocolates for the nurses after a stay in hospital, or giving the bin men a tip at christmas.

 

Flora

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