Following the recent 'communication with schools thread(s), can anyone tell me what is unclear about this letter?

[PartridgeinaRustyBearTree]

29th October 2007

Dear Parents,

In November we will be running a school craft club, making hand-made cards, for Year 3 and Year 4 pupils after school for four weeks as follows:-

Wednesday 7th November
Wednesday 14th November
Wednesday 21st November
Wednesday 28th November

There will be 12 places and if there are more than 12 applications by morning registration on Friday November 2nd names will be drawn out of a hat.

The club will start at 3.15pm and will finish at 4.15 pm, when children can be picked up from reception.

Yours sincerely

Mrs R Miss P

ART CLUB

I give permission for (Name)--- (Class) ----- to join the Craft Club for 4 weeks starting on 7th November.

Signed: ___

dunno?!

Looks fine to me, are you the author or the recipient?

Seems fine to me.
Is this like one of those comprehension tests though, as I'm pants at those!

Looks fine to me!

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Did they give it to you today?
bit behind the times.....

I was the author - I thought it covered everything so I'm wondering why we had three (out of 12) coming to the office after school yesterday to say 'Can you ring my mum, she thinks I'm staying for the Art Club'

lol they probably didn't realise the 4 weeks were up was the club fun anyway?

I sympathise with the parents. Unless you keep all the original bits of paper or make notes on calendars actually, even if you DO keep the original notes and make a note it's really easy to lose track of what's happening, especially withshort-term activities, when you have 3 different DC doing temporary stuff, the schedule never settles down, then the activity gets canceled one week with little notice, etc.

Oh yes. That could well be my ds

They all seemed to enjoy it & got some good results from whst I saw -I wasn't running the club,I just work in the office one day a week which is why I was writing the letter. It was just after I'd been reading a thread about letters from school being patronising & telling parents the obvious - maybe this illustrates why!

I've written many similar letters (and received a few as a parent too) and so know the form now. However clear you make it, even with copious amounts of underlining and bold print and capitals etc... there will always be some people who don't take on board the message. In fact, I reckon only to have 3 kids at the office was quite good. But did their parents really think there was art club that day? Or did the kids concerned just wonder if they knew because they didn't recall a specific conversation about pick-up that day? Either way, it goes with the turf in primary schools.