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sandyballs · 07/10/2010 14:39

...... what a mistake to have on a school website. It's put me right off!

Due to unprecidented demand we have been forced to hold antoher open morning ....

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mnistooaddictive · 07/10/2010 14:50

Remember the website will be updated by a member of support staff and not a teacher as theyare busy teaching! Unfortunate but it happens.

bigfootbeliever · 07/10/2010 16:27

Good Lord - mnistoo... you don't mean a thick school admin assistant do you?

webwiz · 07/10/2010 16:38

I'm surprised no one has pointed it out - I update a primary school website and people practically run across the playground to point out anything I have done wrong Hmm

tethersend · 07/10/2010 16:42

...we have run out of dictionaries.

bigfootbeliever · 07/10/2010 17:07

In case anyone missed the irony in my earlier post, I AM a school admin asst.

At my schoolthe Head of IT, who is also the Assistant Head Teacher, updates the school website.

He doesn't have a dictionary either.

mnistooaddictive · 07/10/2010 21:04

There are some very thick school administrators as well as lots of very intelligent ones! You get what you pay for and as many are very poorly paid, they are not the smartest.

onceamai · 08/10/2010 05:15

Ultimately the head is responsible for what goes on the website. No headteacher can possibly expect parental respect when they can't be bothered to ensure that communications with parents are accurately written when they are responsible for literacy in their school. Why blame the school administrator or support staff - weren't they taught by teachers once upon a time!!

toodles · 08/10/2010 07:02

I agree with onceamai. Any communications leaving the school should be checked for spelling and grammar mistakes. We send our children to school to be taught how to spell and write properly. It's a disgrace if they then send out anything with spelling mistakes.

ontherock · 08/10/2010 10:23

@ElbowFan

Thank you for helping me to improve my second language: Englisch!

Was the message okay, at least?

ontherock

ElbowFan · 08/10/2010 13:26

Sorry ontherock I don't understand - what have I said??? Confused

Have noticed though that my second link has corrected their headline!!!

ontherock · 08/10/2010 14:50

@ElbowFan

?and after correcting it I thanked you!

By the way, my language mixed grammatical understanding would make your sentence "Have noticed though that my second link has corrected their headline!" into "I have noticed though that my second link has corrected its headline!", may be even including a comma.

Would that be wrong in reference to British English?

All the best from Loch Ness.

Christian

ElbowFan · 08/10/2010 15:46

Grin Phew, thought I'd caused offence!!

Ontherock - You are absolutely right and my abysmal use of my mother tongue should be displayed on Pedants' Corner for me to be publicly flogged!!

Blush

I will try and post in proper sentences in future

Sorry Op we did not mean to hijack your thread

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