I think everyone is different but I would suggest not buying bottles of wine unless you know the person drinks.

I guess chocolate is an easy thing to gift that most people like unless it’s some horrible, cheap flavour/brand.
I’m sure they love all the handmade stuff but do they really keep them all?! They must get so many over the years.
I think something like a grocery store voucher is useful or a basket of fruit, things like coffee or tea if they drink it everyday as that would save them buying it themselves, just the little things.

Great ideas here. I’m a high school teacher in an elite independent school and gifts are hard to come by. A card with a nice message is priceless. I’ve lowered my expectations so much that if I get anything, I’m happy. Not all parents and students are thoughtful enough to give anything, unfortunately.

Apparently teachers receive a lot of chocolate at Christmas time!

I usually give my children’s a basket full of useful goodies that they’d use. This year I did a basket up for both of my son’s Kindy teachers and my daughters male teacher got a bowl with goodies in it I hope he would find useful.

This year we gave the teachers and TA’s a wee plant in a pot with a card and for some a handmade star. They loved it.

I work in a school and it’s always lovely to get something made by the kids.

Lovely idea. But my girls wanted to gift some chocolate box.

These are some great ideas but with a year of covid we didn’t get to know any of my daughters kinda class

My kids are too little for school yet but I love this perspective

I think a voucher for something local is a lovely idea

My daughter has always given chocolates. I have friends who are teachers and they always give me chocolates – I think they’re regifting because they get so many.

My boys would write in a card for their teachers and would give either a box of chocolates or a little memento they thought their teacher would like. We never had a coffee shop then, there was only the petrol stations to buy coffee from.

I like the idea of the coffee voucher, it would also help support local businesses

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  • • Ellen replied
    • 20 Dec 2020 , 8:51 am

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  Yes I think that’s a lovely idea too !

I am a teacher and I would always receive chocolates or hand made cookies. One gift from the entire class would be nice but the amount you can give has now decreased. (I think it’s $50) So you need to be careful what you give.

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  • • tessie replied
    • 11 Dec 2020 , 3:19 pm

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  Is that up to $50 a person can put in or $50 from the whole class?

First year doing this and I feel
Like all teachers could use a bottle of wine/alcohol, so that’s what I’ll be doing.

I pay for my child to go to school so only something little & some chocolates..

A group gift is a good idea, provided someone is prepared to organise it – collect money, buy the gift etc. As long as the Teacher is acknowledged in a way that shows appreciation, it shouldn’t matter what the gift ….

Always such a difficult thing to buy/organise. I love the group gift idea, but it always takes that 1 organised mum/dad and this year I’m just not it. Will have to put my thinking cap on

Gifts aren’t necessary but being grateful is a good start. AFter all, they had to handle classes of kids for a whole year. Also, if you don’t respect teachers, then you shouldn’t have kids (controversial, but in my experience, that toxic concept seeps down to children very easily)