How many events in infant school?

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Were halfway through year R and so far had quite a few events that parents are invited to.
most of these are when I’m working and so I struggle to attend!
I just wondered if year 1 and 2 have the same amount, e.g nativity, Mother’s Day event, Easter event, carols in the playground etc etc!

Depends on the school!

Some schools have lots of events, which parents complain about. Some have very few, which parents complain about!

Our infant school was always putting on parent events even writing workshops, maths fun etc as well as those you mention OP. I was a SAHM so I attended all but I often would have my child and my friend’s child for the activity ones as their parents couldn’t make many of the events. I often saw grandparents or aunties also attending. Is this an option for you?

Yes, I’d say generally it’s the same throughout. It will be different things. For example, our school only does a nativity play in KS1, but then from Y3 they do a carols service. Most things are towards the end of the day or after school, but some in the late afternoon/evening (like parents evening). I would definitely say it doesn’t decrease unfortunately.

My DD’s school do a lot of parent workshops etc, whereas my friend’s son’s school doesn’t. Depends on the school I guess!

A gazillion. I went to some, but not to others. If you work full time it’s impossible to attend everything.

Ours does, it is very focused on creating a community. There's at least one assembly a week that parents can attend, sometimes more, as well as trips/workshops/endless charity events.

Depends on the school but my opinion way too many. It's hard on a lot of parents. Not all have flexible hours.

The “creating a community” is utter nonsense. Schools generally don’t try very hard to connect with the hard to reach parents. They want the lovely middle class SAHMs to come along, preferably with a pocket full of cash. Who else can come to the 10am assembly and cake sale? To the 11am “cooking with kids” session (donations welcome) to the “have lunch with your kids” at noon (PTA will be in the hall, collecting for funds) 2pm “enterprise workshop” where the kids have stuck together some toilet roll tubes and put glitter on them, you can buy them for £1.

”community” only works if all parent groups are represented.

Oh, I 100% agree with you @BoredZelda. I should have put it in quotation marks too. It's all bollocks really and the 'community' is really just a small subset of wealthy parents who have the time and money to engage.

My DC1 is in yr 1. There's still been a few so far, but less than in reception. From looking at the school calendar it looks like it gets a lot less in the junior school, from yr 3. Me and DH hate it tbh, it's a pain around work and caring for younger siblings who are never permitted to attend

It's school dependent rather than year group. Sounds like your school does a lot so likely to be the same in following years. Ours doesn't do so much thank goodness. The school are very good at sending out messages telling us not to feel guilty if we can't make it which doesn't help in the least when you know your child is the only one without a parent there for the "drop-in zone" or whatever.

MIL covers some of them for us if we are both working which is massively appreciated.