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Nursery - Terrible Treatment

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Locomotiveracer · 21/02/2023 20:00

So DD attended her third 'settling in' session at Nursery today. When I picked her up I could tell that she had been upset straight away. She was the only child there holding her blanket and I know she only screams for her blanket if she's tripped or trapped her finger in a toy or something at home but I took it to nursery and put it in a box just as a precautionary measure.

Her eyes looked bright red so she'd definitely been crying and she didn't look 'with it'

I asked if she had been told off and the one nursery worker said "yeah at dinner time" I asked why and another nursery worker chirped in full of attitude shouting "she wouldn't sit still to eat her dinner so she had been shouted at." At this point DD looked up and looked absolutely petrified. I asked to speak to the manager and had a meeting with the manager. I felt like my concerns were listened to but not sure whether the trust has completely gone, there's just no need to traumatise a child because they wouldn't sit in a chair, she obviously didn't want any dinner!

Not sure where to go from here, whether to pull her out or put it down to one incident and give them the benefit of the doubt. I just can't believe others would also stand by and let this happen, what an absolute bully!

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RidingMyBike · 21/02/2023 20:02

They shouldn't be shouting at the children, that's completely inappropriate behaviour from the staff. Did the manager comment on that aspect of it?

Is there a different nursery you could use instead? I know there's often a waiting list at the moment but I wouldn't want mine somewhere children are shouted at?

Moonicorn · 21/02/2023 20:02

I think ‘traumatised’ is a bit of an overreaction but they shouldn’t be shouting at the kids anyway, especially not for a non-violent incident and during a settling in session. I would change nursery.