Is this normal? My son's school is stalking me!

[OrdinaryGirl]

We filled out every imaginable form - like, 14 forms - before DS1 started school, and were anticipating the usual odd letter home, but it turns out this was a fairly epic underestimation.

We've just finished Week 1 of him attending full-time and over the course of the week, the communications from school have really ramped up.

Wednesday was 3 messages from the school app, one message in the book bag, yesterday was lulling us into a false sense of security with just the 2 messages in the book bag, and today I received 3 emails, 3 messages from the school app and a letter in the book bag! ALL ON DIFFERENT SUBJECTS.

I have bought a whiteboard and new notebook but this isn't going to be enough to organise me is it? Is this just a normal thing these days? I was at primary school in the 80s and remember we had about 4 letters home per term.
What fresh hell can I expect them to unleash next week?

I don't know whether I'll feel better if you tell me it's standard practice or whether it's just me, my kid has been inducted into the education equivalent of a pyramid selling scheme and the end of term fayre will involve a massive vat of Kool Aid.

Pse halp. 😳

It’s the multiple sources that I find hard. I am very organised with anything that comes to me electronically. Anything that is told to DH, granny, grandad, au pair etc at pick up tends to get missed as I don’t get told. Same for random crumpled pieces of paper in the bookbag, unless I get an email telling me to dig for them.

To be honest you're just going to have to get into the routine of doing a crumpled paper retrieval mission every evening anyway as there's usually paper stuff alongside the electronic stuff regardless of how paperless the school tries to be.

Take a picture and load it to cloud storage for everything

DS just started reception and it definitely feels like they've asked us for all information at least 4 times. The school apparently has a policy of trying to only send letters home on a Friday though (although there's been a few random midweek texts as well) which makes life easier as we can dredge his book bag over the weekend and return the next 19 forms

DS2's school is like this recently! But I know from previous years that it will die down a bit once the teachers start forgetting/don't have time to send out weekly newsletters/homework challenges/spelling sheets/maths updates stuff. Then it will just be emails about trips and the whole school newsletter. It will ramp up again around Christmas though as lots going on then.

Yup we get bombarded, I have two at primary school a sim dreading my youngest joining them.

I don't mind all the communication, it's better than not getting any, but I wish they would choose one set of dates and stick to them.

I thought I was losing my marbles last week when I realised I had my reception class child down in my diary for a school event which was on the newsletter for year 1...

So tonight I double checked all dates against the three newsletters we have had so far, and turns out that on newsletter 1, the school event in question was listed for reception, but for year 1 on newsletters 2 and 3.... argh!

Good luck, I think the organisational skills required to juggle a very deadline orientated job and two kids at primary school is giving me an ulcer!