For the last week of term, from the child who was in the room
The last week of the school year is a particular kind of shopping. You have a few days' notice, a child with strong opinions, and a teacher about to be handed a great deal of chocolate. So this page is ordered differently from the rest of the shop: it opens with the two that start from something already in your house, because a drawing that came home in a book bag is the one present nobody else on the class list can give.
- Your child's drawingUpload a child's drawing and it is engraved on the cover, with their name and age beneath.£17.99
- A handwritten notePhotograph a recipe card, a leaving card or a letter, and the handwriting alone is lifted off the paper and engraved.£17.99
- Best teacher everFor the teacher who earned it, with the role itself in the biggest type on the cover.£17.99
- Teacher, definedA dictionary entry for one teacher, in four typefaces, with the definition yours to rewrite.£17.99
- Best teaching assistant everFor the teaching assistant who holds the room together, said in three words and a name.£17.99
- Teaching assistant, definedA dictionary entry for a teaching assistant, with a meaning you write yourself.£17.99
- Best head teacher everBest, head teacher, ever: set large on three lines, with a name under a rule.£17.99
- Head teacher, definedA head teacher defined in four typefaces, with every line of the meaning yours to edit.£17.99
- Making it excitingA name above the subject they teach, with the subject itself written by hand.£17.99
- Teaching is my thingThe verb in handwriting and the rest in plain type, so it reads the way a teacher would say it.£17.99
- Teach, inspire, repeatThree words, each in a face of its own: a blunt sans, then handwriting, then a display serif.£17.99
- Too cool for schoolFour words and a lightning bolt, for the one the class actually listened to.£17.99
- Book of brilliant ideasA name in a display serif over a line saying what the notebook is for.£17.99
- Inspiring mindsA name and a line in one typeface at two weights, for a cover that should stay calm.£17.99
- Name and monogram£17.99
Let the child make it, and get out of the way
Two of these begin with a photograph, and no form at all. Upload the drawing that came home in the book bag and it is redrawn as line art the laser can cut, with the child's name and age set beneath it. Photograph the card the class signed, or a thank-you letter in somebody's own wobbly hand, and the handwriting alone is lifted off the paper with the letterforms left exactly as they were written, because tidying a child's writing invents a tidier child. Both are drawn onto the cover before any money changes hands.
When the class is putting in a fiver each
If the present is from the whole class and not one family, the covers that state the job outright read properly on a staffroom desk. Best teacher ever sets the role in the heaviest type we have with a name under a rule, and there are versions for the teaching assistant and the head teacher, who between them get remembered about half as often as they should. The dictionary entries take a minute longer to fill in and land harder for it: the word runs across the cover with its pronunciation and its part of speech beneath, and then somebody has to write down what it actually means. Every role here is a word you can change, so a deputy head, a cover supervisor or a nursery key worker gets the right title on it.
The subject they teach, and the ones with no title at all
Not every teacher wants a job description on a desk. Making it exciting sets a name above the subject itself, written by hand and given the largest mark on the cover. Teaching is my thing puts the handwriting on the one word that matters, and Teach, inspire, repeat sets its three words in three faces, one each. Too cool for school is four words and a lightning bolt, for the teacher the class really listened to. Book of brilliant ideas and Inspiring minds are the calm end of the page, and name and monogram never mentions the job at all: initials cut large over the full name, and nothing else.
Nothing here is waiting on a shelf for July. Each one is engraved after you order it, so the last half term is comfortable and the final week is cutting it fine. This page promises no date: term dates differ from one authority to the next, and the carriers publish their own each year. What making, dispatch and delivery take is set out on Delivery and returns.