To call or not to call?

[Bathsheba]

We wrote very detailed accounts of each child's day in their communication books (which took almost an hour a day to do for 10 books...in between patting children to sleep etc... we did it while they napped...each child often got up to a page of a standard exercise book..... usually half a page per day). We also invited parents to write questions or queries in it and we would reply in written form underneath. When done well it can be a great tool for staying informed A much better method than having 10 parents ringing during the day every day (Eeeek!) Personally I never minded if a parent rang to pass on important info or asking a specific one-off question that couldn't wait until collection time.... but if every parent rang just to have a chat it would have made our working day quite challenging. That's not to put you off if you are genuinely concerned though If you are worried about something then they ought to be open to that.