I picked dd(4) up from nursery this afternoon, and was told by one of the nursery nurses that there had been an "incident" involving her. Apparently she and "some other children" had damaged some equipment, and "the whole lot had to be thrown in the bin". The NN who told me this wasn't in the room at the time of the alleged incident, and told me that she had been told to inform me of what had happened. I established that no-one had been hurt, and asked if I was being asked to pay for the damage and was told "no".
DD says that she and 1 other girl, same age, had lifted up a ladder on a climbing frame, so they could get into a hole underneath, and the ladder broke where it was attached to the frame. She and the other girl were sent to the "thinking chair" for whatever the time out period is supposed to be.
As I drove home, I mulled this over- it wasn't clear at all whether the girls were doing something they had been told specifically NOT to do- so why was she put on the "thinking" chair (presumably a PC naughty step!)? She had already been "disciplined" so what was the point of informing me about it in front of dd as if it was some kind of major misdemeanour, and they weren't apparently trying to get me to pay for it (though that may have been the point I suppose).
As far as I'm concerned, equipment does take a bit of battering from a room full of 3, 4 and 5 year olds, and if it was easy enough for two 4 year old girls (neither of whom are thugs) to break, then it must already have been damaged, or at least badly designed or assembled.
I'm of course going to have a word with the nursery manager tomorrow (or at least a member of staff who saw the "incident"), but wondered if anyone else had encountered this sort of situation? If she had clearly defied a request not to do something, and had as a result cost the nursery a lot of money, then I might feel more inclined to offer some sort of compensation, but surely insurance would cover that sort of thing?
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tissy · 18/05/2006 15:16
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