Name changed as outing. The week before half term I got a call from school to say my son had fallen and possibly broken his arm. I took him to hospital and contacted the school as I could tell I wasn’t getting the whole story from my son. They told me as far as they knew he had fallen and their concern was getting his arm attended to.
I took him to hospital and he had snapped the bone ja shad a fracture and was lucky not to need surgery. The following day I had a call from the head of year asking if I knew what had happened. I told her I was told he’d fallen but didn’t believe it. She then went on to tell me that an older boy had come over to my sons friendship group on the school field at break time and bet them they couldn’t push one of the others over. The teachers story is my son agreed which he insists he didn’t but was pushed over. This resulted in the broken arm. They had taken statements from his friends and agreed it was more rough play than anything serious and more stupidity than maliciousness.
My son has come home today and told me that one of his friends has gone to hospital with a suspected broken arm as someone had slide tackled him on the field at break ‘as a joke’.
I really feel like I want to contact the school again and raise concerns about this as how can two children break their arms in a few weeks as a ‘joke’.
My son doesn’t want me to ‘be a Karen’ but surely this needs addressing? I don’t know what the answer is but it sounds like no one is supervising anything as no teachers/staff saw this happen to my son or this boy.