My DD is in reception. Either myself or her dad collect her every day apart from Wednesday. On Wednesday, her nanny collects her.This has been the case ever since she started school. The school does not allow parents in the classroom so at collecting time the teacher 'posts' the child through the door one by one when she sees the collecting parent. If it isn't the parent collecting, you need to write this on the white board in the playground in the morning so the teacher knows who to hand child over to at the end of the day. All fine - background info to explain the school do know who is picking children up.
This half term, the reception class are doing a minibeast project. We were warned that we would get the minibeast bag home one night and have to find a bug, draw a picture then write an interesting fact about the beast before handing back THE NEXT DAY.
of course, DD gets the bag today, a Wednesday. She is dropped off to me after work at 7:15pm by her nanny with bag in hand telling me we have to do this project by tomorrow morning. Very upset when I say we really don't have time and she needs to go to bed. Mornings are difficult as, apart from the limited number of bugs out and about at 7:30am, she has her reading and music practice to do.
So in the end, I basically print a few pictures off google, write a paragraph about spiracles (all I could recall from a-level biology) and put her to bed late but at least happy.
AIBU to have a polite word with the teacher tomorrow to say that given she was one of only three children not going home with their parents today(according to whiteboard) it wasn't very helpful to have given her the bag tonight? And that she was sad we didn't have chance to look at the pack/use the special net/read the books? I know they have a lot of children to manage but they also have a lot to choose from and picking one who they KNOW isn't going home with a parent, who also goes home with a a parent every other night, seems really thoughtless.
Or is this just regular school crap that I have to just suck up? I'm a bit disappointed as I would have liked to do it with her. Happy to be told I am unreasonable but please, I am pregnant and emotional and feeling very sensitive.