What present are you wrapping up for teacher this Christmas?

Mary Buscombe, 15, is in year 11 at St Michael's small school in Truro

I live on a farm outside Newquay, and for the last few years I've always given the teachers a turkey at Christmas. We've got about 50 turkeys on the farm; most of them are killed in the runup to Christmas, although we always keep one alive for Easter.

People think you get attached to the turkeys, or that it's difficult to see them die, but it's not like that – when you live on a farm, you understand that's the point of it. Usually, I help kill the teachers' turkey the day before they're going to eat it – I might hold it while someone wrings its neck. They die quickly and easily, and then we'll hang it up and pluck its feathers.

My mum will cook the turkey here on the farm because they haven't got an oven big enough at school, and then we'll take it in one day next week. My school is tiny – there are only 31 pupils, and 10 teachers – so although the turkey is my present to the teachers, we'll all get some of it for our lunch that day because it's the sort of school where we're like one big family.

Everyone always says how delicious the turkey is – there's no comparison between a home-reared turkey and the sort you buy in the shops. It's a really nice treat before we break up for the Christmas holidays.

India Diment, nine, is in year 5 at Holy Ghost primary school in Balham, London

I'm giving my teacher, Miss Wood, some bath stuff. Last year I gave Miss Ruff, my year 4 teacher, the most brilliant present ever – a chocolate pizza! She really loves chocolate, so I thought it would be perfect for her. She opened all her presents in front of the class and when she saw the pizza box I think she thought it was a prank – and then when she saw the pizza she couldn't believe what a huge slab of chocolate it was! She took it off to try some in the staff room at break and said it was delicious.

Beth Frost, nine, is a year 4 pupil at Bamford primary in Brough, Derbyshire

I've done crochet club every Monday this term, and I've really enjoyed it. My grandma encouraged me to do it – she's brilliant at knitting, and she lives in the village and helps run the crochet club at my school. So when I thought about a present for my teacher, Mr Friend, I thought: why not crochet one? So I'm crocheting him a decoration for his Christmas tree. It's going to be a cute little animal with baubles attached. It's nearly finished.

Mr Friend is a brilliant teacher. He's really kind and helpful, and he loves computers – and computing is my favourite subject. I don't think he knows how good I am at crocheting, so I think he'll be surprised when he sees this. I hope he'll put it on his tree and have a wonderful Christmas holiday.

Matthew Pickering, Jamie Thrippleton and Tom Davies, all 17, year 13 pupils at Queen Elizabeth school, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria

Matthew: Mr Davies, our computing teacher, has been going on and on about the Raspberry Pi. It's a new computer coming on the market very soon, and he says it's going to revolutionise the teaching of computing in schools. It's tiny and it will cost £15.

Jamie: We know he can't wait to get one, so we're clubbing together and trying to get him one for Christmas. It hasn't been released yet, but we've signed up on the supplier's website in the hope of getting one of the first batch.

Tom: We're all planning to do computing at university, and it's down to Mr Davies – his enthusiasm is infectious. Fingers crossed we'll be lucky and manage to get one before Christmas.

Molly Farrow, five, is in year 1 at Busbridge infant school in Godalming, Surrey

I'm making a big star for my teacher, Miss Browning, to hang from her window at home – it's a sun-catcher. She gives me lots of sticker stars for getting things right at school, so I thought I'd give her a big star for being such a good teacher all year round. My mum is very good at making things, and she's helped me. We made the frame out of willow and then decorated it with lots of coloured sequins. I found some little sequin robins in the box, and robins are Miss Browning's favourite bird, so I got lots of them out to stick on the star. I really hope she likes it.