That bloody school is make life hard at this time of year

[Bluebluetuesday]

We're all running about, getting ready fir Christmas, blagging work for multiple periods if time off to attend school events, sending in colour coordinated gifts for the raffle, being harassed by the bloody class rep for teachers gifts etc etc etc.

Then the school send out an email and a text and a Dojo to tell us they've cancelled all the lunch bookings for next Wednesday as it's a special Christmas Lunch and we've to rebook if dc want it.
The bloody lunch on a Wednesday is a cooked dinner anyway, with exactly the same component parts as the bloody Christmas lunch.
It's just so bloody petty and annoying, they seem to be sending 20 plus comms a day at the moment and this has tipped me over the edge

@OrangeKettle the joy of arbor!

Teachers have 25 hours a week to deliver the curriculum. I can't find any reference to hat making in the NC, nor can I find any reference anywhere to PTA dictating what teachers should do in that 25 hours.

I do agree with you that if parents or the PTA want hats, they can provide them.

I'm a (single, childless) Performing Arts teacher and genuinely don't know how parents cope. The number of events we have (all the time, not just at Christmas) completely fries my brain and I'm the one organising them so I have no idea how all the parents follow my attempts at keeping everything straight! They generally seem to manage it and I think you're all heroes!

Just a couple more weeks of nativity-concert-disco-jumper-talent show-carol service-pantomime-carol singing-christmas tree decorating-musical production hell and it will all be over. Well done!!

Eh, the teachers are the ones who want the hats made.

Yanbu, December is an expensive month as it is, but we’ve also had:
school photos
christmas ptfa event
school-led fundraiser event
chritmas jumper day
christingle service
belated children in need event
odd socks day (charity contribution)
School christmas dinner (parents join)

Then we found out Friday night it’s D&T day on Monday, children to take:
seasonal vegetables
herbs
vegetable or cooking oil
apron
chopping board
knives safe for children to use
vegetable peeler

I love our school, it’s genuinely a really lovely school, but this month of all months I could have done without the extra expense let alone all the additional bits to think of / book time off for.

After endless special days at nursery and infants, we chose a Junior School that had a Sausage Sizzle, a Christmas Lunch and a Theme Week. Nothing else. It was bliss. No green day, no odd socks, no PJs, no book day dressing up.

The Christmas lunch often has to be redone because people fill in the forms for the whole term expecting Wednesday to be a certain menu then get angry that it's the Christmas lunch. Some schools greatly discourage packed lunches or even ban them on that day so they need to edit the booking system. Christmas lunch is often more expensive too so the prepaid amount needs to be adjusted accordingly. I get why they do it but I'd expect a bit more notice from your school!

Mine is allergic to parsnips. One year they gave them parsnips and told them to not be fussy. Luckily mine had the sense to say it was an allergy. Sure enough — their picture was on the wall as having an allergy. Cue kitchen meltdown. Apparently mine half expected the scene from Monsters Inc to play out. The kitchen then had a major wipe down before presenting a plate without parsnips on it. Mine didn't have the heart to tell them they could've just taken the parsnips off the original plate... Of course this meant the Christmas lunch went seriously behind schedule 😂

As the school calendar is usually publicised at the start of the year parents have ample time to make arrangements to take time off work if they are able to do so, naturally teachers are not able to attend the majority of events in their own children's lives.

genuinely don't know how parents cope.

Probably because they're not dealing with 30+ children, they'll just have a few, all that makes life easier! 40+ years of I can still recall my daughter coming home from Kindergarten looking very unhappy because she to be a donkey in their Nativity! Apparently she had got the gig because 'Your Daddy's very artistic, so he'll be able to make you a lovely donkey's head!