To be really upset by this letter from dd's primary school and be considering making a complaint?

[Spero]

I don't want to get on my high horse and act like a twat but I got this letter this morning and it has upset me on so many levels.

It was dated June 16th and post marked June 18th. I received it this morning - June 20th.
It tells me to fill in slip and respond by June 19th or my dd won't have a place at the school.

It then tells me I can attend on 'Wednsday' 24th June at 3.15pm (later on in the letter it says 'Wendseday 29th June') to organise uniforms and visit class rooms etc.

I'm a single parent and work full time - unless it is an emergency I can't get the afternoon off on two days notice. As I live in Brixton and this is not 1952 I doubt I am the only parent in this position so why on earth do the school think this is acceptable?

Also reception is spelled as 'Recpeion'.

I just get the feeling that who ever wrote that letter didn't give a shit - about spell checking, about checking dates, about thinking whether it made any sense at all to send a letter on the 18th of June requiring a response by the next day!

Is this kind of thing normal? Am I over reacting? Or do you think I should make my vies known to the school?

It is Hill Mead, I'd be grateful for any inside info, one of the nursery parents says its awful, but I didn't get that impression from what I read. But I don't know anyone else who goes there.

Thank you lockets - I should have done this kind of thing months ago, I suspect I have been in denial

The spelling wouldn't bother me but I can't understand how the hell they think a working parent can just cater to anything they chuck at you. It isn't common sense and it's not fair. I wouldn't complain till your child has a place though, then you can really go for it. Dumbbells.