Incident at school - come and give me your thoughts.

Safeguarding children is everyone’s concern. The school need to address this issue pronto

It was just before Easter, maybe the Ist , April Fool's Day .

There's only 1 or 2 criticising, everyone else is supporting the OP & saying that response from school is NOT enough.

Is it as a well known prank? Never heard of it and I went to a comprehensive in a city as did my son.

Don't be ridiculous, you know exactly why Jamie was mentioned. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise.

Sorry but all the mentions of James Bulger are crass and distasteful

By all means get to the bottom of what happened but likening this to the murder of a toddler is outrageous

Very strange behaviour. I’d escalate with HOY or deputy head. All sorts of wrong things here.

I'd want to know a lot more about the dutustion

• why my DD?
• why were they out of class?
• is it normal for y9 to run the errands (when genuine)
• how should the supply teacher have handled it?
• what they are doing to keep my DD safe

Oh the tutor is busy? Well thats alright then.

I have worked as a TA for thirteen years and I can’t imagine any teacher or member of staff that wouldn’t want to know about a situation like this and that wouldn’t class this as the utmost importance.
Teachers receive many petty emails from parents but this isn’t one of them.

A pp mentioned James Bulger and that was my first thought too. I wouldn’t settle for, ‘the girls have been spoken to’.

The school I work in and the school my children go to have children on a rotating basis from year 7-9 that do community service in the office. It is for 2 hours in the morning for a week at a time, prob once a term.

They absolutely do deliver messages to other children but it is also accompanied by a note.

I know we would take this seriously at my school but I’m also certain this would have been done as a bad joke and fortunately very unlikely to be anything as horrific as the case mentioned above. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be dealt with of course.

So adding a few more words would make people happy?
Tutor is probably busy. Tutor time is a small part of the day. They have quickly got back to the parent to say it's been dealt with. I don't think they as a class teacher have the power to say that safeguarding policies will be looked at or given anything to that extent of wording.
If anything maybe just asking the tutor if DD seems happy at school, and if they have noticed any reason for her to be targeted would be more relevant.

I would want to know why they asked her to go the office? No point just having a word!

Has your dd got a common name. I mean it could be that if they went to a classroom and asked for 'Olivia' or 'Grace' or 'Izzy' for example, they would be likely to strike lucky!
Sending littler kids to tge office is a prank as old as time

Correct, id be asking WHY these girls done this, what was their reason.

I imagine people (i.e. the OP) wants an explanation of wtf these kids were intending to do with her DC. It's hardly data protection to reveal what they were up to and whether they will be apologising to DC as one of the consequences. Some reassurance of what steps will be taken so it can't happen again would be good too. I don't really think it's asking too much. 'Spoken to' doesn't cut it at all.

OP isn’t asking for details of the girls backgrounds. But staff should be sharing much more detail on what actually happened, how they will review safeguarding practices etc. Being reassuring not dismissive

ok. Glad you made it sound urgent!

I am so confused about why the girls picked your daughter in particular. This is what would worry me.
however after Easter holidays this won’t be what is the first on the list for the schools safeguarding lead, there will be children that have gone into care, or been arrested, or been raped, or run away from home, or come back with cuts all over their arms or no mediation after a long holiday. This is what their diary will be full of this week, not a mean prank at school that could have, but didn’t, cause any harm,

There is no mention of school procedures being looked at, safeguarding of all pupils in school, how they ensure this doesn't happen again.

It very much hasn't been dealt with!

I am not one for going up to a school unless absolutely necessary but this sounds like it could have been serious and I would be doing the same as the OP. Don’t know why people are criticising this one.

Yes that’s quite nefarious. Makes you question what they were going to do to her. I’m glad the TA helped however I’d hope she’d have reported it as a safeguarding issue.

You need urgent answers to this. Your DD sounds as though she's being targeted for bullying or a planned attack for some reason. It's potentially very serious and I'd be wanting to know exactly what has been done about punishing the girls already and what is going to be done to safeguard your DD in future.

The form tutor sounds a bit nervous to me like they know the school has stuffed up . But as others have said ., let her know that you are not dropping this and are waiting for others to do as you have requested.

Don't bother staff??

say what?

it's no longer 1950 & silly japes.