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DS3 brought home the nursery school diary today....How many mistakes do you think the 'teachers' have made in the front page.

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ladytophamhatt · 28/03/2008 20:45

It an A5 book, front page is telling us what sort of thing to write in it, why its good for the children, that the book needs to be back on monday etc etc etc.
No more then 3-4 paragraphs.

How many mistakes do you think there are??

( BTW I know this is pot caling the kettle black coming form me but....)

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Janni · 28/03/2008 21:01

!!
Come on tell us and tell us what they are! This will be good for a laugh.

JingleyJen · 28/03/2008 21:02

14

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ladytophamhatt · 28/03/2008 21:07

well, anyway...there are 23.

Half of which are spelling mistakes.

resource spelt with 2 s, nurseries instead of an 's at the end(it's not a pural either, its talking about the Nursery's diary), involvment with only 1 v.

Comma and fullstops missing and placed wrong. words completely missing...

I won't list them all but its really bad, isn't it?

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ladytophamhatt · 28/03/2008 21:08

sorry x posts

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wheresthehamster · 28/03/2008 21:11
marmadukescarlet · 28/03/2008 21:11

Dreadful

I had a letter from my LEA today which had his's in it, that is a new one!

I just think it shows a lack of regard rather than a lack of literacy?

constancereader · 28/03/2008 21:12

I normally come on to defend casual typos - but there is NO EXCUSE for sending out a document with 23 mistakes. Or indeed any mistakes at all. Are you going to point it out to them?

yogabird · 28/03/2008 21:13

yes it is bad and yes it matters but what do you do? My dd's old school had a parent's noticeboard, i always wondered which parent it was for and where mine was!

why i wonder also won't this go bold or underlined? even the machinery is against me!

Whizzz · 28/03/2008 21:14

The best one DS had when he was at nursery was a letter detailing the aims of the nursery, one of which was:

"To learn the children to respect their piers"

Whizzz · 28/03/2008 21:14

The best one DS had when he was at nursery was a letter detailing the aims of the nursery, one of which was:

"To learn the children to respect their piers"

Whizzz · 28/03/2008 21:14

oops sorry!

Kindersurprise · 28/03/2008 21:14

Is this something that gets passed around the parents? What is a school diary?

wheresthehamster · 28/03/2008 21:14

yogabird - you have to do each word

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ladytophamhatt · 28/03/2008 21:15

It is a lovely lovely nursery, really lovely. The ladies are all just like you'd wantthem to be....

Obviously none of them are good at grammer though.

Someone has already circled all the mistakes. Someone being another parent which I think is abit off TBH.

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JingleyJen · 28/03/2008 21:15

really scarey thinking these people are teaching our children!

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ladytophamhatt · 28/03/2008 21:19

If I;d had teh diary first I would have pointed out the mistakes so that they can correct them and re-print the page.

The diary is shown on monday to the children. I'm sure they don't read their own front page every time so they've probably missed it and are still none the wiser.

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constancereader · 28/03/2008 21:20

They might think it was you who circled the mistakes.

yogabird · 28/03/2008 21:38

thanks hamster (if I may abbreviate) sorry to be so personal, trying it rightnow but...nothing;s happening!

hippipotami · 28/03/2008 21:41

A note in my dd's reading diary (from her teacher, I recognize the handwriting) read ....their was no clues....

I am so tempted to correct to there were, but I won't, for fear of upsetting the lovely teacher.

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ladytophamhatt · 28/03/2008 21:46

I will point them out on monday, just because I think its embarrassing for them to sent it home again.

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wheresthehamster · 28/03/2008 21:57

Right - now listen Yogabird
asterisk/word/asterisk/space/asterisk/word/asterisk

Repeat after me....

Janni · 29/03/2008 19:50

'to learn the children to respect their piers' ??
Do the little ones prefer Wigan or Brighton?

yogabird · 30/03/2008 21:07

asterisk word asterix word i think *i've got it! thanks wthamster! - been practising all night!

yogabird · 30/03/2008 21:08

no oooooooooo! despairing emoticon wordspace *bold???!

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ladytophamhatt · 31/03/2008 10:57

I got there early this morning so that I could talk to them before the other parents arrived. I said It was wasn't me who circled all the mistakes but did they know that it had been done.

They did know but hadn't had time to correct them. I said TBH I wouldn't have noticed the puncuation errors because I'm rubbish anyway but I felt bad for them to be sending thsi book home with all the errors hi-lighted because although its not great, the long and short of it is that its a lovely lovely lovely nursery and it really doesn't matter. It really quite petty that the person has marked them out rather than just having a quiet word, like I did.

We actually found a few mistakes that hadn't been hi-lighted that made us both chuckle.

They are going to correct it all when they get a chance.

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