anyone else's school say no babies at the school xmas play??

[sparklygothkat]

recieved a letter today saying no babies or small children at the key stage 1 play and at the key stage 2 carol concert. I can't leave callum with anyone as he is BF and will not take a bottle, also he needs topups after feeding. I thought I would feed and topup just before the play and concert and he should sleep for a few hours.

Sorry, just realised that my post reads as if I had taken my little one to an event she was banned from. Little ones are not welcome at school events in church but there are no rules on events at the school.

Our nursery asked parents whom had lo's with them to kindly remove them if they became unsettled, as it put the children off ( I was quite shocked)

Ah another thread about this..

I think they often say no to babies and toddlers because some people don't take them out if they become noisy.

Go ahead and take them along anyway though regardless...that's what happened at ours and no-one said a dickie bird about it .

Our school asks at the beginning of each performance, there are two, that if younger siblings get fussy to take them out. Our school doesn't offer a creche as it's only small and all infant staff are involved in the performance.

I went to both performances this year once with my 2 pre school children, 3 yrs and 15 mths, and once without them.

I found the children who went were quiet and the main distraction in one performance was a father sat in the audience who's mobile phone started ringing and spent ages trying to get it out of his back pocket whilst sat down then decided after about 30 seconds to get up and still hadn't gotten the phone out yet which was still ringing and only managed to stop it once he'd gotten out of the hall. Then you could also hear him talking just outside the hall entrance!
He distracted the audience, the teachers and all the children performing the nativity.

You'd think he'd have the brains as an adult to turn it off or at least put it on silent.

If a creche is provided during the performance, who staffs it? Our school has no spare staff and not enough PTA parents.