Ask most people who inspired them to pursue their career and they'll name a teacher.
The one who saw something in them before they saw it in themselves. The one who made a subject make sense when nothing else could. The one whose classroom felt like the safest place in a school that didn't always feel safe. Teachers shape the people who go on to become doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects, every career in the Graduation 2026 collection traces back, somewhere, to a teacher who believed in someone first.
And yet when it comes to personalised graduation gifts, teaching is consistently the most overlooked profession. The market is flooded with stethoscope jewellery and legal motif pieces. For the PGCE graduate, the newly qualified teacher, the education studies graduate, almost nothing that feels worthy of what they committed to. That gap was too obvious to ignore.
The design and the story behind it
The Teachers' Necklace has a book on the left, a pencil on the right, both as fine outlines framing the design, and a solid banner running across the centre. That banner is the engraveable area and it belongs entirely to the person wearing it. A name, a title, a school, a year, a message, a dedication, anything in any language, in any script, on the front, the back or both at no extra cost.
The design was deliberate in its balance. The book and pencil are the two most universal symbols of education, present in every classroom, in every culture, in every generation of learning. But they sit as outlines rather than solid shapes, framing the banner rather than dominating it, because the name is always the hero. The piece reads as scholarly without being old-fashioned. It feels like something a modern teacher would actually want to wear, not something that looks like a school prize from 1987.
For every path into teaching
The Teachers' Necklace was designed for newly qualified teachers completing their PGCE but it belongs to anyone whose career is built around education. Primary teachers, secondary teachers, early years practitioners, special educational needs coordinators, teaching assistants, tutors, higher education lecturers, education studies graduates, anyone who chose a career dedicated to shaping other people's futures.
It's also one of the most gifted pieces in the collection from families, because a parent watching their child qualify as a teacher knows exactly what it took. The placements, the lesson planning, the behaviour management, the emotional weight of being responsible for thirty children at once. They want to give something that reflects that. The engraveable banner means they can put the graduate's name on the front and their own message on the back, a private dedication that sits against the skin every time it's worn.
Personalised in any language, any script
Every piece is engraved in any language and any script, English, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam and more. A name in Urdu script engraved on a book and pencil banner necklace is something that exists nowhere else in the world except around the neck of the person it was made for. That specificity, the name, the language, the career, all in one piece, is what makes this a gift worth keeping for a lifetime rather than something that ends up in a drawer.
Available in 18ct gold plating, polished silver stainless steel or real rose gold plating on a 50cm fine trace chain. Waterproof, tarnish-resistant and hypoallergenic, made for the staffroom, the classroom, the parents evening, the school run and everywhere in between.
Orders placed between 1 May and 31 July 2026 come in our exclusive graduation cap gift box, the lid shaped like a graduation cap, the piece inside in its velvet pouch, ready to give with no wrapping needed.
For the one who is about to change everything
Every child in every classroom this September will be taught by someone who qualified this summer. Someone who chose teaching not because it was easy or because it paid well but because they believed they could make a difference to the children who sat in front of them. That belief, and the years of training it took to act on it, deserves to be celebrated properly.
For the newly qualified teacher walking into their first classroom. For the PGCE graduate who nearly quit in year two and didn't. For the one who chose education when they could have chosen something else. For the teacher who is about to become someone's reason for everything.
This piece was made for them.
Available in 18ct gold plated, polished silver stainless steel and real rose gold plated on a 50cm fine trace chain. Personalised in any language or script, front, back or both at no extra cost. Graduation packaging included on all orders 1 May – 31 July 2026.
