Once a week a newsletter arrives in my inbox that determines how we will be spending far too much of our time and money over the following few weeks. I talk, of course, of the school newsletter. Amidst tales of athletic prowess, parent committees and what seems to be an all consuming obsession with enrolments, there also lies a "Dates to remember" section detailing special assemblies (more often than not requiring some sort of costume), events that require a financial contribution (when do…