to think if school want me to attend events they need to give more than a week's notice

[lisbey]

DS1's junior school always send letters about class assembly, meet the head coffee mornings etc exactly 1 week before the event.

I really do try to support everything the school does and am in the fortunate position that I can arrange my work diary to suit me, but once something is booked in, moving it means letting down a customer.

I've had a letter today that DS2's "moving up" session from Infants to Juniors is this time next week. I obviously don't want to miss it, but really a week?

Someone at work said schools do this deliberately because they don't want too many people turning up, but that may be over cynical....

I've always found that really annoying too. Could you try having a friendly word with the head about it? Maybe they just haven't thought that people need more time.

Is it definitely the school giving short notice or is it your child forgetting to give you the letters, like my 2 always do?

Mine would invis, but I check their bags every day when I take their lunch boxes out.

No, IME schools do this so that parents don't put down the letter and lose it, forget it, ignore it because the date is so far in the future. A week sounds slightly short, but we never send out letters about this sort of thing more than ten days in advance.