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All the crappy correspondence...

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handlemecarefully · 14/09/2006 23:03

Now dd has started Reception I've noticed that she comes home virtually every day with some sort of correspondence. Tbh it contains a fair amount of bollox...I've taken to cursory skim reading and binning....

Is this the same for you? Oodles of letters and notes? Do they think we've got nothing else to do??

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Gobbledigook · 14/09/2006 23:04

Ahah - there you are. Was thinkign about you while driving to Tesco the other day - was thinking of starting a thread 'where is hmc?'

Er, yes, lots of paper but I'm a bit sad and I like getting 'post'

southeastastra · 14/09/2006 23:04

do the government think the school have nothing else to do?

Gobbledigook · 14/09/2006 23:04

And I like filling out forms which people think is odd. I took great pleasure in filling out umpteen forms for ds2 going into nursery today!

Clary · 14/09/2006 23:05

HMC the way to deal with this is to read it at once (ie as you unpack the schoolbag), note down any dates in diary/on calendar) and then recycle. I use it for shopping lists/to do lists etc (she preens greenly).

We don't have as much as you tho by the sound of it.

SherlockLGJ · 14/09/2006 23:05

And if they didn't send it, they would be accused of not keeping the parents informed.

moondog · 14/09/2006 23:06

I leave it all for dh.
Forms are pet hate.

Have left all boring bumph about my impending MSc on his desk to digest.
By this time tomorrow I expect him to tell me where to register,where lectures are,best place to park,how to set up e mail account and so on.

ZZZZZZZZ

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handlemecarefully · 14/09/2006 23:08

Gdg - one of my favourite people!

I've just binned a 5 page document on 'Fair processing notice, DfES suggested text, schools with primary age pupils' - didn't get past first paragraph on that

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Bluebear · 14/09/2006 23:09

We get loads of stuff, mainly school-wide newsletters...beware the trap I fell into - believing them to be mainly a list of who scored goals at football matches that i didn't care about (yr6) and the reg numbers of cars which have 'despite repeated reminders, parked on the raised area outside the school', I stopped taking much notice of them.

Luckily a friend rang the night before the first non-uniform day to check that I knew about it (I didn't, of course) - tiny mention on the newsletter the friday before. Ds would have been the only reception child turning up in uniform if I hadn't been warned!

Gobbledigook · 14/09/2006 23:10

Eh? oooh, I don't remember anything like that when ds1 started! Yeah, bin it!

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handlemecarefully · 14/09/2006 23:11

Oh lordy bluebear - so I had better not skim read then for fear of missing something. Damnation!

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Gobbledigook · 14/09/2006 23:12

Oh yes, very, very serious if you forget 'own clothes day'!!!! I'm usually the one reminding people - I'm far too anal about knowing exactly what's going on and when. I need to get a life!

Clary · 14/09/2006 23:18

just wait till your kids are at juniors - I gather (DS1 just started yr 3) that instead of notes we will get verbal messages - gahhhhh, he will never remember and I will be walking in to school and all the other children will be dressed as dinoaurs and DS1 will say, oh yes, I forgot to tell you I'm supposed to be a stegosaurus today.....

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handlemecarefully · 14/09/2006 23:20

Verbal messages? - ummm perhaps I'll be thankful for the written notes - as bloody numerous as they are.

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TinyGang · 14/09/2006 23:25

It's like a ministerial red box (x3) coming home to be worked through. Enough paperwork for a part time secretary.

wakeupandsmellthecoffee · 15/09/2006 20:24

gobbledigook ,you think your bad I am your twin and I carry spare trackys and tops plus socks for my DS in the car,I have lent these out many a time .

julienetmum · 15/09/2006 22:36

I have enjoyed reading the little missives that have appeared in the book bag. I am quite disapointed on the days when there has been nothing there!!

Feenie · 15/09/2006 22:45

Yep, of course, as teachers we sit there writing reams of irrelevant bollocks because we think parents have nothing else to do but read it.
Ffs, ruin my Friday why don't you!

milward · 15/09/2006 22:46

Have 3 kids at school so get all the info & forms three times

rustybear · 16/09/2006 09:25

Milward -at our school we have a'first & only child' list so that anything that doesn't need an individual response for each child only goes to the eldest child. It saves a lot of photocopying costs - why don't you suggest it to your school?

curiosity · 16/09/2006 09:31

Our school used to do that, but found that the older children often didn't pass the information on, so they've reverted back to copy for everyone. (Smaller school, so not THAT much difference on photocopying costs).

I often produce PTA stuff though, and it's really funny when the children come in with a copy each of a document I've produced and show it to me as if I've never seen it before.

rustybear · 16/09/2006 09:41

We do have a little judicious editing of our list sometimes when we know who's not too reliable! Ours actually cuts out around 30 kids from a school of 220, so if it's things like policies or governors' reports it adds up.

Our PTA letter always used to be on yellow paper, and one day one a new member of staff did the school letter on yellow by mistake. It happened to be quite an important one about an event and it was amazing how many parents said - oh I always throw away the yellow letters because they're from the PTA!

milward · 16/09/2006 09:44

wish it could all go on the website - then I wouldn't lose the info!

rustybear · 16/09/2006 09:54

Actually ours do go on the website - it's me that puts them there - have just remembered that I forgot to put Friday's letter on before I left

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