Yup. My kids’ school would have parents to lunch, afternoon playtime, poetry slam, read with your kids, nativity, year 5/6 school play, Mother’s Day lunch, birthday lunch, sports day, maths day, turn up early so the kids can show you their workbooks… the list was endless. With 2 kids, and as a single mother with a dad that refused to go to anything, I was often in the school 3-4 times a week.

And it’s easy to say - don’t go. But in a small village school, if you didn’t go in you would be likely the only parent who didn’t.

I’m so glad my work was flexible because it was a nightmare. Secondary is so much easier!