To think that a primary school shold not have grammatical errors on their website?

[Greythorne]

Maybe I am fussy / old-fashioned / pedantic.

But a school with a website like this would make me run a mile.

I look at a lot of school websites as part of my job.
Some are fantastic , others not so.
I do point out grammatical errors to them as I think it gives a poor impression.
Rogue apostrophes are the main problem, also plurals eg ladys instead of ladies.

I totally agree that the site needs to be checked really thoroughly, as it does give a bad (and I would say inaccurate) impression of the school. Who let's that happen?

However, I've done some supply teaching there, and it is a fabulous school from what I experienced - really organised, busy, friendly, and creative with very smiley well-behaved children who are working at high levels. Staff work very very hard. If you wrote the school off because of the typos on the web site, it would be a very short-sighted move IMO.

You know, gladbag, I think there are typos and typos.

When someone writes "poeple" instead of people, I assume it is a genuine typo / slip of the keyboard / Ipad autocorrect.

But when their / there / they're are mispelt or when apostrophes are all over the place, sadly, I assume they are lacking in education.

Ahhh - the rogue apostrophe strikes again in the pedant's thread . Can you spot it?

I totally agree Greythorne, but I doubt very much whether a teacher wrote any of the blurb on the website simply because it is usually someone else's job. Class teachers often write up their own class bit of a website, or blog, but not general stuff. It will be administrators, or volunteers, I would imagine, as that is usually the case in a busy Primary school. However, someone high up on the teaching staff should be checking the content daily, and making sure that mistakes are spotted and corrected (or ideally ensuring that who ever does the job has a firm grasp of spelling and grammar).

I spotted it, gladbag (let's) but didn't think it would be polite to point it out. But since you asked...

Thank you for your tact.

I am an old-fashioned pedant who makes mistakes sometimes.
This looks to me like the website of a lively and interesting school.
I wonder if any member of staff has responsibility as part of their job description. In my experience the school website is something that is under resourced .
Perhaps it would be possible for a well-educated and pedantic parent to keep an eye on it for them.

Featherbag. The website could be managed by some enthusiastic member of the PTA, and may not actually reflect the importance awarded to grammar by the teaching staff?

I would like my child's school to be lively, interesting and staffed by educated people.

I am amazed that some posters are suggesting that this site may not be maintained by qualified teachers....and therefore the mistakes are acceptable / understandable. I find this so odd.

I expect my children to learn basic grammar and spelling. Why do we not expect adults in a school to be able to write correct English unless they themselves are teachers?

Open Sunday's
Too for the price of One
We now do shellac Nail's
Sunbed's half Price

I am prepared to forgive our local beauty salon with the nuggets above. However a school note/letter/email/sign should not be forgiven, in my opinion. It looks awful. Bad grammar as well as random capital letters (see above) makes things ten times worse.

Tuts and returns to my pedant's pirch, checking own post for error...

I agree with LeQueen. But I don't know what we can do about it. The current crop of teachers seem to be of a generation who weren't properly taught themselves, so they pass their mistakes on. It sometimes feels as if there are only 10 people left in the entire country who know how to use the apostrophe correctly - and we're all on Mumsnet.