- these are the inset days
- here are the times we will be asking you for money, and what for
- these are the "special" school lunch days
- here are the times you will be invited to the school
- here are the extra things your child will need for school on certain days
- here are the permission slips we need you to sign
Then you could just put all the money in an envelope, do 25 signatures on things with one of those millions-of-pens-taped-together contraptions that Molesworth probably used to write lines, put all the dates for the other stuff in your diary, (including "Monday 25th: prepare ptarmigan costume by end of week for BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES day; Wednesday 27th: dc's show and tell tomorrow is on Entropy, find example of entropy") and get the hell on with your life
WHY CAN WE NOT DO THIS?