Occasion HandbookHolidays 19 examples

Christmas Card Messages for a Teacher

Name what the teacher actually did. They get thirty cards in a week and the ones they keep are the ones that mention a specific child doing a specific thing.

Season’s Greetings Merry Christmas, and thankyou. Ilya has gone fromdreading reading to hiding a… PRINTED YOURS

From a parent

  1. 1 Merry Christmas, and thank you. Ilya has gone from dreading reading to hiding a torch under the duvet.
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  2. 2 Happy Christmas. Thank you for a term where he has finally settled. We know that was your doing.
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  3. 3 Merry Christmas. Thank you for your patience this term — there was a lot required and you never showed it.
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  4. 4 Wishing you a very happy Christmas, with our thanks for everything this term.
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From a child

  1. 5 Merry Christmas. Thank you for teaching me this year.
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  2. 6 Happy Christmas! You are my favourite teacher and Fridays are the best day.
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  3. 7 Merry Christmas. Thank you for helping me with fractions until I got it.
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  4. 8 Happy Christmas. Have a good holiday!
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For a teaching assistant or support staff

The people who least often get a card, and who most often did the hard part.

  1. 9 Merry Christmas. Thank you for sitting with her every morning until she was ready to go in.
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  2. 10 Happy Christmas, and thank you — you are the reason this term worked.
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  3. 11 With thanks for all you have done this term, and every good wish for Christmas.
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For a head teacher, or at the end of a hard year

  1. 12 Wishing you a restful Christmas after a demanding year.
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  2. 13 Merry Christmas. Thank you for holding the whole school together this term.
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  3. 14 Happy Christmas. We see how much of it lands on you. Rest.
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For a music, sport or drama teacher

  1. 15 Merry Christmas. Thank you for the concert — the practice was audible from our kitchen and it was worth every minute.
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  2. 16 Happy Christmas. She has found the one hour of the week she genuinely looks forward to.
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  3. 17 Merry Christmas. Thank you for every Saturday morning in the rain.
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When the card comes with a small gift

  1. 18 A small thank-you for a big term. Merry Christmas.
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  2. 19 Merry Christmas. Not much, but the thanks behind it is not small.
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Questions people actually ask

What do you write in a Christmas card for a teacher?

Thank them for one specific thing that changed for your child this term, and name the child. That single sentence is what separates it from the other thirty cards.

What should a child write in a teacher’s Christmas card?

Their own words, in their own handwriting, however short. "Thank you for teaching me this year" from a seven-year-old beats anything a parent could draft for them.

Is a card enough, or should there be a gift?

A card with a specific line in it is genuinely enough, and many schools cap or discourage gifts. If you do send something small, the card is still the part that gets kept.