Tell me what random requests you've been sent by school this term

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About an hour ago I got a notification there was a new message on the school app so as I had time I checked it.

DS is apparently doing a play IN FRENCH tomorrow and with apologies for the short notice school would like us to practise their lines with them (fine for us DP's French is almost fluent)

And please could we send DS in with :

A toy dog (probably got one somewhere in the loft)
Some Euro notes and coins (luckily we went to France in the holidays)

And best of all .......

An inflatable hammer

We knew about the play but until now we had no idea about props and DS certainly hadn't mentioned them. Anyone know how I can acquire an inflatable hammer by 8am tomorrow?

I once made a little Japanese knot bag with some chocolates in it for a teacher present. School asked if I could make 30 more for something they wanted to do with the kids. That was a hard no, as a full time working parent of 3 children

My favourite one (state school) was a chick costume with 6 days notice. Private was to make something Alice in Wonderland related over half term with (again) a week's notice and we were going away for the whole time to a wedding. When they had the "exhibition" the parents had clearly made the majority of the craft anyway.

Chick costume was a yellow baseball cap and someone made a feathery wrist band. The following year, I joined the PTA and insisted that the roles for nativity were given out a few weeks in advance.

I think the Alice in Wonderland craft was a few roses in that green stuff (which I forgotten the name of) and put in a pot that DD drew a spade on. We abandoned that school fairly quickly anyway and the new school was much more organised, but just as demanding. ie please can your daughter bring in a costume - she is a Christmas bauble, but we had a month notice and they always had the proviso that you could ask school if stuck.

We have to somehow send them to school in victorian dress but not fancy dress so no pickpockets, chimney sweeps, artful dodgers or anything in a fancy dress shop. Also we shouldn't buy anything to save money. So school uniform or claim we would have been in the workhouse and take the day off?

Please feel free to send your child in traditional Chinese dress to celebrate”. On a Wednesday, for Friday. We both work full time, and don’t, surprisingly, as English and Australian parents, have a whole load of Chinese embroidered robes tucked away in a cupboard.

Oh this made me laugh @Bambooshoot

A collection of twigs which should be between 6-10cm long

My favourite is always 'we are having a cake sale, so please send your child in with some cakes to sell, and also some spare change to buy a cake' 🤔

Ah yes. The cake sale. Beats competitive fancy dress, aka “I don’t think parents have enough to do of an evening managing three homework apps as well as little Johnny, do you? Let’s put “Homemade Is Fine And Positively Encouraged” in the email, shall we?”

I did take a very deep breath at the cake sale to raise money for diabetes awareness. It’s bad enough buying/making and sending in cake then having to buy said cake back. But for diabetes awareness? Really? All occasions require a cake sale at our school though.

My favourite one was Greek day. The letter said something along the lines of:

"Please send your child in an Ancient Greek outfit. Use your imagination and research different Greek outfits they might have worn. What about teacher, philosopher, or maybe even an athlete..."

Apparently my email thanking them for the suggestion of the easy costume of (nude) athlete, but asking if it was okay if he wore shoes as long as he took them off at the door was facetious. 😁 The teacher even told me that with a straight face. I think they were the teacher who failed to research before writing the letter.

😄I see your KitKat and raise you a chocolate digestive

An orange tie
A potato
A home baked dog treat for a to-be-raffled dog hamper

@bighair32 would that be a chocolate mcvities? Are you sure you wouldn’t prefer a dried apricot or some well-handled-by-little- boys blueberries? 😀

Tempting...😁

A scientific but non-programmable calculator from a list of four for an exam THE NEXT DAY at around 5pm

Haha, a friend of mine told me that when she was new to both teaching and Scotland she asked her class to do this.

Apparently the majority went with "ally bally bee" which for the uninitiated is a song about sweets. Via some excellent joined up trolling on the P1 WhatsApp, the mums all sent their kids with bags of haribo with "coulters candy" written over the labels. It was carnage.

She is a mum now and is much more sensible in her requests to parents!

Have you checked Aldi middle aisle for inflatable canoes??

We will be learning about the Industrial Revolution so all children will (obviously,) require a jam jar and a tea towel.

These are making me chuckle. DS' need for a potato 'suitable for turning into Supertato now seems quite tame!

I'm narked with DD's nursery at the mo though. She's there 8-5.30 five days a week and they've said.... we'll be having a pumpkin completion on Halloween.... please bring in photos of pumpkins you e carved and decorated at home for us to judge.

FUCK OFF. When? I'm at work and she's with you all of the bloody time. But of course I'm going to spend one of my evenings doing it because I don't want her to be left out.

I'm not sure it was. I definitely remember last minute panics to try and find an orange for christingle, or fashioning a doctor's costume for a play. Or a papier mache boar's head for the "tudor Christmas"...

“Please send you child (6yo Dd) into school with a suitable costume. Their role is…”Samuel Pepys” (about 3 days notice)

because everyone has Samuel Pepys dress up at home!

“Please can the children come to school wearing yellow trousers tomorrow” Who on earth has yellow trousers?!

Current project is a treasure box containing 3 of their most special, valued items, but something they won't mind if it gets lost.

We were cheerfully invited to ‘decorate your hatch’ ready for bonfire night this week. I have no idea what this means 😂

I put a message on my local facebook group. by some miracle a lovely lady had a surplus inflatable hammer. DP went and collected it earlier. she even says we can keep it as she doesn't think she'll have any further use for it. it's huge about 3 foot long.

I can't see the issue with this?

Yes cake sales are a PITA, as mine always really wanted homemade & as a single mother, working full time, it was the last thing I needed.

But the kids love the cake sale, picking out their cakes, spotting the ones they brought in. It's a nice event.

we'll be having a pumpkin completion on Halloween.... please bring in photos of pumpkins you e carved and decorated at home for us to judge.

Oh that's brilliant - what were they thinking? 😂