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End of Primary - TA farewells and gift
chookynoo
June 25, 2013 11:39
My DS is moving on to secondary this year (fingers crossed all goes as planned!). He has had the same TA for four and a half years and she has been a major part of his life, and has provided the safety and security at school that he has needed.I have 2 questions that I''m hoping you can help me with:1. What can I do to make his seperation from her easier? She is involved in his transition activities, but come the end of this term he will have to say goodbye. We will continue to see her a bit as DD is still at the primary for another year.2. Any ideas for a suitable gift for her to say thank you for all her help and support to him and me?I know she is also going to find the goodbvye difficult - it''s the first time she''s supported a single child all through school rather than being a peripatetic TA.Thanks in anticipationChooky
Flosskirk
June 25, 2013 14:10
I always give TAs etc a gift card so they can buy something they want. But our daughter made a couple of her TAs something from a pottery cafe - we met one of them in the park the other week and she mentioned that she still has the egg cup our daughter made for her and whenever she uses it she thinks of our daughter. Not sure about the separation - I am not sure you can make it easier for them.Hope it goes well
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Starlight
June 25, 2013 20:57
I am going through exactly the same at the moment so know how you are feeling. Hopefully there will be some good transition work going on for your ds, and this itself should be helping in terms of him 'moving on'. Is there a new TA at the new school who is starting to see more of him - like a handover stage between TA's?You could do things at home like making a card and buying a gift together, ask ds to think of what his TA's favourite colour might be, or if she likes any particular pop stars or types of flowers. I am sure she would appreciate a well thought out gift by your ds.Also, ask the TA to write a goodbye card/letter to your ds, and ask that she writes a letter in the first week of term in Sept to see how he is getting on. He needs to be reassured that people don't just disappear and she will still be thinking of him.
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kstar
June 25, 2013 21:09
Something to keep and preferably to use at work... As a teacher, I love it when students I have worked hard with buy me something I can carry around school with me. My comfort blanket in stressful moments is the Starbucks silver cup with a lid which I was given a couple of years - it is engraved and it reminds me when the going gets tough why I do my job!
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chookynoo
June 26, 2013 09:13
Thanks everyoneI love the idea of a mug she can use at school - with a personal message on it.And a homemade card from DS, and probably gift card from me.Also will ask her to do letters as suggested.He's off on his first link day at new school today - v apprehensive about the taxi ride! But his present TA will meet him there and start the 'handover' to the team of TAs (couldn't get them to go for a single TA, though there is a main one).cheersChooky
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