WTF? It’s 7.40pm and a teacher has just randomly turned up at my house

[birmanbaby]

To give me new starter forms for DD who is starting reception in September

I already have a DD at the school so if they’re trying to save on postage she could have given them to her.

It’s a bit weird no?

If she was teacher at your daughters primary school then why didn't she know you? Why did she have to ask if this was x's house? Are you sure she is a teacher?

Did you recognise her? I would have thought a member of office staff might have been asked to do that. Hope she got overtime if so.

Lots of schools do home visits before reception- it's not about checking where you live- it's about meeting parents and child and having the opportunity to discuss any issues one to one before school starts in an informal way, and helping the children to feel happier about starting school. My school does this.

Did she say she was a teacher?
More likely surely to be admin staff?

Sounds really suspicious

Very strange.
In my working life I often visited parents at home, but always sent a letter first to say when I was coming and was that OK?.
Even so, I was often greeted at the door by a barking german shepherd dog .

I don’t understand the address check. Surely they can only be checking you haven’t used a total strangers house as your address for school!? hello is Mrs Smith there? No sorry no one lives here by that name. I’m Mrs Jones and I’m 87. Ah ha! School frauster! Really?

I mean how would you get the post etc?

If you’d used someone else’s address with permission they’d just keep up the pretence wouldn’t they?

We also had a home visit prior to dd starting nursery attached to school but it was by bloody appointment not a random knock on the door!!!

I know locally people were having visits from teachers before the kids started but seems v odd at that time of night!

I’m betting that someone forgot to send them home with your other dc. They know that the teacher lives on the same street so asked her to drop them off on the way home.
She got there and then wasn’t 100% on the house number so knocked to check.

Very strange, particularly if you already have a child at the school, as it’s usual for younger siblings to go to the same school. So I can’t see why they would need to check that you live at your address.

Visits to see child in the home environment are also common, but in my experience always pre arranged and not in the evening!

I would ask in the school office tomorrow and if it’s a genuine visit, say you would prefer not to be disturbed in the evenings again.

I do home visits as a teacher. It’s nothing at all to do with checking where people live. Schools themselves don’t allocate/deny places so I’d imagine if anyone would be checking addresses it would be the LEA not the school. Also home visits are a) optional and b) arranged in advance with the parent.

This sounds very odd - how do you know she was a teacher? Probably it was just that a member of staff lived local and was asked to drop them off, but I can’t think why it was so important they had to be placed directly in your hands this evening. If they’d forgotten to send the forms with your DD today they could have just sent them tomorrow?

7.40 isn't late at this time of year. I think I would feel differently in the winter as I don't like answering the door after dark, but it's not sunset until almost 9 at the moment.

It’s not late at all but certainly seems late for any school related things.

Ah yes I bet it was an address check!!

It’s a village school but they’ve just built a housing estate between us and the school. DD possibly got in on sibling priority and not distance to the school although it’s really close!

I couldn’t tell you what DDs teacher looks like. I never go to the school. Drop off outside and she’s picked up by older siblings. It was definitely a teacher as DD told me it was when she walked past the window

In was in a A4 envelope with my name and address on but no stamp. Maybe they were just saving on postage and forgot to give it to DD!

It’s definitely from the school. Same forms I filled in for DD previously

Could they be checking that you live there? I.e not using an old address or grand parents etc?

You don't know what your child's teacher looks like? That's shocking! No wonder the school made a point of calling round- they probably want to make sure you actually exist! Have you never been to parent's evening or met them on an open day etc?

Never been a celebration assembly, Christmas concert or school fayre?

Do teachers care enough to do this with their evening?

Never been a celebration assembly, Christmas concert or school fayre?
Says someone who has a lot of free time.

My DPs best friend has been registered at her Mothers for this reason, despite friend living between 2-5 miles away at times. Eldest is 17 now, youngest just started juniors, and she's been doing this for that long. She has over five kids and been doing this for that long.

It could be.
Fiesta some parents work and can’t always attend. DH didn’t go to any as he was always away. My dad went to a gym display once the only time he ever went to any of the six schools I went to. He was always away at sea. I even went to register myself at a new school because he had broke his arm on the move and mum and my much younger siblings were still at the old house.

Limekiwi it is just to see the children in there own environment as they are more relaxed in their own home. Usually the parents are too and can ask questions with more confidence. Some parents that had a bad experience at school find it difficult to be in that environment.

OP it might be she forgot to give it and I would do that if I was living nearby. I have dropped off a lunch box before now.

Was it Miss Honey from Matilda?

Probably an address check, as others have said.

She might well have been doing a couple a day on her way home from work-I doubt she'd go home and then come back out!