Is it weird to do a school tour when you already have DC there?

[ThreeArmBandit]

I have DC in a primary school I'm very happy with. Youngest DD will be starting in 2027. I've booked her and me onto a school tour, as although she's seen playgrounds and the outside at drop of and pick up, she's only ever really gone in the hall for events, so I think it will be nice for her to get to know it a bit more. The school have also done a few things since I originally toured before eldest started so I'm also interested.

DH said I'm wasting the school's time as we will definitely send DD regardless, and also the teachers/ head etc on the tour will all think I'm odd for going (not a huge school so will be recognised). I thought it was a pretty normal thing to do but now DH has made me question myself!

A while back for me, but I’m pretty sure schools requested no children if possible. It’s for the parents, not the child.

Not everywhere clearly.

Teacher here. Not weird!

We even do regular tours for current parents who are interested in seeing a regular school day to sign up to.

I did it with my youngest. I wanted them to be able to look around the school and I wanted to see different parts of the school again (you don't get to see much of the school buildings as a current parent). It wasn't confusing for them. It didn't seem weird to the school and they were happy that I was able to chat to prospective parents. Our school specifically say that they welcome dcs on school visits, but I've seen other schools state that they don't like parents to being children, so that depends on the school.

I don't worry too much about wasting a school's time; I've gone on plenty of school open days even if I was fairly certain we wouldn't choose it. It doesn't make a big difference to the school as they would be doing the same preparation for it anyway.

It is for the child in your case not you. I remember people bringing children on the tour to show them the school when I was looking around. We will do the secondary open day for our 2nd child even though we have chosen the school so she can see it.

I don’t think it’s weird.

But I am very much planning to go to the open day of the school my infants-aged child currently attends when deciding which preferences to put down for my younger child.

There has been a lot of change at the school since we listed our preferences for the older child. I’d like the chance to revisit it, and am also considering putting another local school as our top choice.

Mine are adults now. I’ve done everything twice, schools, colleges, unis - because it’s for them, not me.