This is an important source of information for parents of younger age groups. Notice boards are used a great deal at nurseries or the early years of primary school and they enable parents to keep track of events at the school. They work because parents can read them when they are picking up their children at the end of the day. However, some parents complain that they are not kept up to date. Nurseries / pre-school establishments tend to be better at using this form of communication and use their notice boards as bulletin boards, updating them daily with a short list of the activities that the children have undertaken that day, or which are intended for the week ahead. These provide some of the important clues that parents need to be able to talk to their children about what they have been doing.