to think someone could have given us a chair?

[thisisyesterday]

at ds1's Harvest Festival service?
Got there nearly 15 mins before it was due to start. No seats.
Have ds2 (3) and ds3 (16 months) with me. I don't really think it would have been possible to stand up with them both for an hour and a half for the service.
am really and that i've had to come home and miss his first Harvest Festival. His class were putting on a performance and singing.

aparently it wasn't possible to get me another chair, no-one else would offer me one and all the other empty seats were for pupils and staff.

so aibu to expect a chair? for reception and yr1 to sit on the floor at thr front so that parents could have seats?

to add (apologies for the drip feed), the church is attached to the school. so it owuldn't have been difficult for them to bring a few extra chairs in for the people standing at the back, even if they didn't have enough for everyone

so for next time... get there an hour early, ditch the kids, be ruthless?

DS1's school hall isn't big enough to accomodate all the parents so instead of doing a whole school harvest assembly/nativity play etc they tend to do them for each year instead.

So, for example, this year Reception did it on the Tuesday morning, Y1 did it on Thursday morning and Y2 did it on Thursday afternoon, timing it to finish just before school finished so kids could go home with their parents just before the school bell sounded, helping to ease the usual parking problems.

If your school's numbers are so out of kilter for space available vs numbers wanting them, might be worth suggesting they try something along these lines? Also it means the assembly can be a big shorter as you only have to listen to each year perform rather than everybody. I know it is nice to see the whole school thing sometimes, but if it is that with a high chance of not being able to get in to see them at all vs just your child's year and having a much better chance of seeing them, I know which I would prefer!

Even so, it was standing room only for each 'performance' - thank goodness there weren't three times the number of parents trying to get in. Partly the problem is that school numbers have expanded significantly since the school opened and the hall hasn't - there are now 3 classes in each year instead of 2 - if there had been just 2 classes in each year then there would probably be just about the right amount of space for one year's worth of parents/grandparents/little ones/assorted hangers on... But there again, would probably have meant that it would have been significantly more difficult to get into a very good school so I'm not really complaining!