Spelling on letters from school

[Polkadot1974]

We've had two from school this week using practise/practice wrong. Is it just the way spelling is now? AIBU to wish they were correct? Am I feeling ill and just being retentive? Does anyone ever point this out to school? I hope I haven't made any typos here...eek!

Yes, me! I used to send them back to school with the corrections in red (I am a teacher!) I was about as popular as the plague

The Head was actually fine about it. She said it proved that I was reading the letters and she took my point that we couldn't expect children to write correctly when the example that the school set was poor.

I have the sort of brain that seems to spot errors anyway. It seems that at least one daughter has inherited it.... watch out world!

We had a there/their one on the very first newsletter of term. I didn't point it out but it was very grating. I trained as a teacher and remember during an observation the teacher getting all sorts of things wrong on the whiteboard and the kids copying it all down. I fear for my children (and like OP am now worried I've made typos here too....)!

I would mention it (I'm a parent and teacher) as it drives me nuts.
I went into a classroom once and the teacher had misspelt Cinderella on the board. Honestly

My mum is an English teacher.

She once rewrote a letter that I'd been sent home with, corrected all the mistakes, and sent it back to the teacher.

It did not go down well.

My eldest has a homework app and I had to sit on my hands when I refreshed it to find that she had been set homework marked 'HUMANATIES'.

Both our DHTs are terrible- one I think is genuinely dyslexic, by the mistakes that are made. The other, I do wonder if they learnt to read using ITA, it's that bad, and she's actually a very clever person! Her spelling is just beyond awful.

I was a governor and used to raise concerns about apostrophes or lack of them. St Chads school. Was there more than one of them? No. Then change the logo to a grammically correct version.

It annoys me too but I've never had the guts to say anything.

Misuse of apostrophes drives me mad too. "Our lent display's" was on one newsletter ahhh

I get the rage when I pass a garage that has a sign saying "mot's" - why would a sign company do that? Why?

Definitely point it out but I would also like to say all letters go out via Admin staff so, highly unlikely to be a teacher who wrote it/finalised it despite the name at the bottom.
I am forever getting frustrated at changes made to my 'letters' by Admin staff including using Yours sincerely and Yours faithfully the wrong way round. Get so frustrated and long to tell parents: it's not me!!

How do I bring it up without seeming like a pompous arse?! I've just told my son it's wrong and he asked if he should say something but I said no as I don't want him in trouble. Annoying though

Our school is dreadful and dh and I both work in jobs where attention to detail is essential and typos matter big time, so it infuriates me. I try to skim read and ignore though.

I'm an office administrator in a primary school and am absolute anal about spelling errors, grammatical errors, typos etc - I must check each letter I send out several times beforehand and I am mortified if something slips through the net. My colleague however, is less diligent. Can always tell who has sent the letter/email/text - I hope!

Kitty that used to drive me mad! It was as if they knew better in the office than the English department! I used a letter from a member of staff recently, for the same trip, a year later. I just had to change the date and my name. I had to rewrite the whole thing. You child has been chosen....
Plus sincerely instead of using faithfully, amongst other errors.

How do I bring it up without seeming like a pompous arse?

Good question! I'd do it the cowards way if there were just too many SPG issues and write an email to the school's general address!!

I think it should be correct. And if the Admin person isn't getting it right they should be informed (by the HT who should know what is going out from the school)
If Admin is sending out letters with a teacher's name on the bottom, the teacher should be checking it first.

I would be loath to send a child to a school which didn't expect high standards from all its staff.

My son started Reception this term. The letter detailing arrangements for the first 3 weeks had his teacher's name spelled incorrectly, the wrong term dates and the wrong collection times for several days.

I was unimpressed and did email the school. The odd typo? I'd probably tut and leave it. However, if it impedes the reader's ability to understand the contents then I'll definitely draw their attention to it.

I've just started my first teaching placement on my PGCE and noticed a booklet produced for the children had "license" when it meant licence. I didn't say anything as I didn't want to be "that person" on day one.

To be quite honest, it jumped out at me as I only figured out the difference in my thirties!

It's dire, isn't it? I don't think a single member of staff at our school can spell.

I think of it in the same light as a catering firm not following kitchen hygiene - everyone catches the bug.

I'm not going to say anything as it isn't kind and I would be mortified. It just annoys me. I saw a TA write saw for sore. That wasn't good. We are all different I guess but I want the children to have correct examples. That's why reading books is so important. To see words (hopefully written correctly)

If Admin is sending out letters with a teacher's name on the bottom, the teacher should be checking it first.
I agree but we are not allowed to. It has to go to the Support Staff for final checks, even if we think the letter template we have given them is correct. They change it.

This has been the case in all the schools I have worked in and it does my head in!

I'd be pissed too.