What does this mean to you and where do you live?

[Thistledew]

"As of next week Mrs X will be coming back for Outdoor Learning and Art sessions for each class... Class 1 will have their session on a Friday morning."

Would this mean to you that:

A) Mrs X will be coming on one specific Friday.
B) Mrs X will come on every Friday henceforth.

And where in the country do you live?

I misinterpreted a message from DS's school and am wondering if I am just a muppet or if this is a dialect issue, as we have very recently moved to a new part of the country (UK).

B, South East

It's nowt to do with dialect, you just misunderstood!

Utterly normal phrasing. PE restarts next week. Year 4 will do PE on a Tuesday. Yep, normal.

Not dialect as such but my parents were country folk and they would have said 'of a Friday'.
I was brought up in a town and I would have said 'on Fridays'.

If you have not heard people using 'of a Friday' then it is reasonable to think that it meant singular. To me it is something an older generation would use, or you would read in a book.

South.

As others have said, it's the 'As of' that's key to It being B.

B (Scotland, city dweller)

B. Although I would have said 'on Friday mornings.' And I'm from London.

B
Scotland/Yorkshire

I got caught out with something similar. My child’s teacher sent a sign up link that said the school district had to provide an hour of hands on instruction in the subject and to sign up. They had 3 dates to sign up. I picked a date and took my child (otherwise in virtual school) didn’t think about it the next week. The following week read another email that mentioned attendance at the hands in session was required and formed a major grade. Turns out it’s one hour weekly!

B. From London

I've lived in quite a few different parts of the UK, and I think it would mean every Friday in all of them. I don't think it's a dialect thing at all tbh - just fairly standard English!

B. South London guy.

Every Friday

Sussex, via London, York &. Durham & it would mean the same in all of those places

*As of next week" is the giveaway. Definitely every Friday. It's really not a dialect issue.

B. As previous posters has said because it says a Friday. North West - but south Wales originally

B, I can't read it any other way. I'm in the NE

Yes, I thought it was a one off event as nowhere in the letter did it say "every" Friday.

But surely "as of next week" clearly indicates it will be a weekly event during termite?

Argh, termtime, not termite.

And I forgot to say I'm in Greater London.

I know you've answered now but wherever you live it's B. Maybe to be extra clear the writer could have sai every Friday but I wouldnt have expected that to be necessary

Option C: Mrs X will be in every day. All classes will have a lesson every week. Class one will have lessons on Friday mornings. I agree with you that the 'a' means that the lessons will be repeated.

Other classes will have them on other days of the week.

south east (but originally south west)

B. Northumberland

B - London

B. Wales.

B - Northwest

B - every Friday. From Midlands, now South West.

I’m with everyone else. B. I think you just misread it in a hurry. I did that earlier this week and turned up to something on the wrong bloody day!