sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
(joke)
Question for teachers
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sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
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Zorra
Suburban lazarus
Guineveretoo said:I want a gingerbread house!
I will make you one
Seriously, they looked like this
but with less iceing on the roof. Great fun to make, great present to give and costs about £1.50 a pop (assuming you don't eat all the sweets whilst you're waiting for the gingerbread to cool and have to go and buy more, ahem...)
zenie
>^^<
sheothebudworths said:
I never bought anything for my secondary lot but I do remember giving teachers a present in first and middle school cos we spent all our time with one teacher.
My Mum was a single parent on benefits but she managed to scrape the money together for a bubble bath or a bottle of shower gel
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
treefrog said:listening to that just now actually, after the day I've had it seems apposite
I don't know what that means.
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_angel_
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Guineveretoo said:One is supposed to buy presents for one's children's teachers?
Since when?
I don't think I approve of this. What about those children whose parents can't afford to buy presents for the teachers? I was on benefits for most of the time my daughter was at school, and she got free school meals, and the school bursary fund paid for her to go on school trips, and even paid for her to get some new shoes when a school bully stole one of hers and threw it onto a rubbish cart. I also had some charity or other, sent by social services, coming round every year to give a present to my daughter (like, one of those ones you see in shopping centres, where you buy a present and attach it to a tree for kids who "less well off" or whatever). It would have been really awful if my daughter had been one of the only ones not to give her teacher a present
I'm on benefits but still buy choccies. It's not compulsory though. I just know how hard it must be working with them! And yeah J and J have had prezzies off social services, other classmates and even the school transport people.
Fortunately they're not likely to be bullied on the grounds of giving/ not giving a present in their classes and circumstances. Shit that anyone would be.
Stobart Stopper
Well-Known Member
When Kevin was at primary school, we used to spend about £20 on the teacher's christmas present, bottle of good quality wine and some smellies from Body Shop. If I'd had two teachers to buy for I'd have spent alot less.
It was a toeken of our gratitude for all the hard work they did. And they do work really hard IMO>
It was a toeken of our gratitude for all the hard work they did. And they do work really hard IMO>
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
oi! is my name being taken in vain?milly molly said:
I usually get chocolate - for some reason, often after dinner mints.
wine is welcome too. Personally, i'm reaally fussy about toiletries, so i've rarely used anything like that that i've been given - but they are really nice to receive - it's unexpected (in no way do the majority do it) and really makes you feel appreciated. But then so do little notes and pictures the kids give you.
Message - it's nice to feel appreciated.
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
i still use a mug a kid gave me with favourite teacher on it - she was a lovely kid - it was v cheap mug but i think of her when i use it. even though its really tacky teachers are hardly ever thanked enough for the actual output so presents or a nice word in a card or a picture feels good.
one four year old gave me her own cheap plastic beads wrapped up in pink toilet roll in a smarty tube - that was 10 years ago so it obviously made an impression on me - no money spent - all her own idea = great.
i used to work in a school that had quite a few children from Latvian families in it and we all used to get a big bunch of flowers on the first day of the school year - that was really nice.
zorra - you do great presents
one four year old gave me her own cheap plastic beads wrapped up in pink toilet roll in a smarty tube - that was 10 years ago so it obviously made an impression on me - no money spent - all her own idea = great.
i used to work in a school that had quite a few children from Latvian families in it and we all used to get a big bunch of flowers on the first day of the school year - that was really nice.
zorra - you do great presents
spanglechick said:oi! is my name being taken in vain?
I usually get chocolate - for some reason, often after dinner mints.
wine is welcome too. Personally, i'm reaally fussy about toiletries, so i've rarely used anything like that that i've been given - but they are really nice to receive - it's unexpected (in no way do the majority do it) and really makes you feel appreciated. But then so do little notes and pictures the kids give you.
Message - it's nice to feel appreciated.
Absolutely. One of my favourite things (apart from the Henry VIII ring) is a card a girl got me for my birthday in summer that says 'You're different, you're special' and on the inside 'let's face it, you're weird'. I've still got the envelope after six months because she put stickers on it and wrote 'To the best teacher in the world' and it made me really really happy after a rough few days.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
so when did you refer her to the Ed Psych?milly molly said:
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
How about buying something for the caretakers, cleaners, dinner ladies, technicians, secretarys at your kids school. They're also working hard to help your kid get an education and and on worse wages than the teachers.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
i always buy stuff for them - as a teacher, i'm their service user, as it were.
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
I always keep the dinner ladies happy, that way I always get given 3 sausages at lunch while everyone else gets 2.
Ich bin ein Mod
does his make up in his room
I'd be really freaked out if I got a christmas pressie from any of my pupils
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
spanglechick said:
Although............
....as a pupil, I remember our school secretary really fondly too!
As a work colleague, it doesn't really address the OP (or the post you were responding to)!
However, I think your pictures/notes idea is spot on!
I'm wondering though if this is really a broader question of Christmas spirit/misery
....and how it explodes once you have children who may also want to give presents!The bastards!
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
i was thinking about getting a box of chocs for the office staff because im always in there pestering them but i thought that might be a bit much.DJ Squelch said:How about buying something for the caretakers, cleaners, dinner ladies, technicians, secretarys at your kids school. They're also working hard to help your kid get an education and and on worse wages than the teachers.
im really fussy about toiletries too so i wouldnt buy them for someone else unles i KNEW that they liked it. ive been on the receiving end of too many useless presents and i know how it feels to get something really crap but stil have to say thank you
when my son started nursery(school nursery) the teacher was AMAZING she was kind and patient and when i had problems she really put herself out to chase them up even though it wasnt really her domain and she couldnt resolve it herself. ShiftyJunior really enjoyed it and had no problem settling in and i think a lot of that had to do with the teacher he had. Anyway, I wrote a letter to the school to thank the teacher and say how marvellous she was. Sadly i wasnt able to do that last year because the teacher was not so great
i want gingerbread now
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
Also spangles, iirc you teach secondary which is imo, a completely different kettle of fish - driven entirely by the the kids wanting to show their appreciation, rather than parents feeling they ought to, iyswim.
_angel_
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DJ Squelch said:How about buying something for the caretakers, cleaners, dinner ladies, technicians, secretarys at your kids school. They're also working hard to help your kid get an education and and on worse wages than the teachers.
I always send a box of chocs for the class's support staff. Being a special school there are q a few of them. I know it prob doesn't go that far...
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
I will be quite shocked if I get any presents. I brought Turkish Delight back for my lot after half term. Out of my entire form group not one student said thank you. Many, however, spat out their sweet. Amazingly, and untrue to form, they didn't just spit it directly onto the floor!!
Whereas most days I do have to pick up semi-regurgitated food from my classroom floor.
All that being said, when they see me in the morning they seem genuinely happy to see me and thus I can start each day feeling positive.
I think I'd settle for just once, not having to practically beg them to be quiet so I can take the register...
Whereas most days I do have to pick up semi-regurgitated food from my classroom floor.
All that being said, when they see me in the morning they seem genuinely happy to see me and thus I can start each day feeling positive.
I think I'd settle for just once, not having to practically beg them to be quiet so I can take the register...
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I get loads!
I'm not a teacher though but I work in a school
I'm not a teacher though but I work in a school
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
DJ Squelch said:How about buying something for the caretakers, cleaners, dinner ladies, technicians, secretarys at your kids school. They're also working hard to help your kid get an education and and on worse wages than the teachers.
But Christmas presents you generally buy for someone you have a relationship and affection for, rather than as a gesture for people who help you but who you don't know, I'd have thought.
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
milly molly said:
thats the whole nub of it - although teachers and educators do get paid for it, for most, especially in the earlier years of education, without a warm and responsive relationship its hard for children to thrive.
Miss-Shelf said:
Not sure if I misunderstand you or vice versa. All I was saying is that I think the reason teachers get presents rather than support staff is that they have a relationship with the kids more, even though suppor staff do, of course, deserve thanks. I agree that warm and responsive relationship is really important between teachers and kids. I'm secondary but I think it is just as important as younger, especially, I think as our lot are often from unstable dysfunctional homes.
