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What's the strangest call you've ever had from your child's school

522 replies

listsandbudgets · 17/02/2021 13:52

Pancake day always makes me remember this one.

You know that cold feeling when the phone goes and its school? Is my child ill, hurt, in trouble etc. etc.

A few years ago mine went on pancake day. The school receptionist said "we're sorry about this Lists but Lists-junior has been hit over the head with a frying pan"

(turned out thankfully it was only a very light, one and they'd been having a pancake race when he tripped, the boy behind him tripped and somehow in the tangle the frying pan whacked him on the head!)

Has anyone had a stranger call than that?

OP posts:
steppemum · 18/02/2021 09:04

When I went ot pick dd2 up from reception.

Very worried and embarrassed teacher. I ma so sorry dd2 has cut her hair. They had kept the hair in an envelope. (why?)

I said not to worry, it wasn't the first time and it won't be the last, (she had a penchant for chopping hair with scissors) and she'll soon learn that her hair looks silly with a self chopped fringe.
But the teacher was so worried and so apologetic. It slowly dawned on me that the reason was, that most parents would have been cross.

Honestly? It's only hair, it will grow back!

sashh · 18/02/2021 09:45

sadpapercourtesan

Is he now a professional food critic?

TheDrsDocMartens · 18/02/2021 11:04

Some fantastic kids on here 😂😂😂

Snowball426 · 18/02/2021 11:07

Many years ago I received a call at work to let me know my DS4 had LOST his two front teeth.
That he'd need to be taken to dentist immediately!
He was crying as the tooth fairy wouldn't be coming as a little girl hit him in the face with a bat.

However all the children were out in the playground doing a treasure hunt to find the teeth!

Pellewsmate · 18/02/2021 11:10

DS2 who has a speech impediment took his cuddly mouse, Nibbles, with him to preschool. One afternoon the manager told me that 'Nipples' was an inappropriate name for a teddy.

KarmaNoMore · 18/02/2021 11:32

However all the children were out in the playground doing a treasure hunt to find the teeth!

I can relate to that, my sister accidentally took one of my front teeth off when I was 5. She just had a rummage around the gravel and handed me one little stone saying “here’s your teeth, all sorted!” Grin

sueelleker · 18/02/2021 11:34

@KarmaNoMore

-Mrs Karma, your son here says he needs to go home because he feels unwell
  • Is he ok?
  • I’m sure he is faking it but we have him in the office for you to pick him up.

Got there 20 minutes later to find a very pale and ill looking little Karma, who proceeded to vomit on the feet of the nasty woman who made the call just as we were leaving the office.

Karma indeed!
Natsku · 18/02/2021 12:01

@Whiskeylover45

Not a phone call but an announcement to all the parents waiting to pick up at DS nursery (3)

There has NOT been a fire.

Turned out they had a practice fire drill and all the children were talking about going outside because of the fire.

Never will forget it 😂

Just reminded me of a school-wide message sent out from DD's school a couple of years ago to let us parents know, just in case our children came home panicked, that they had had a fire drill that day but to make things more realistic they didn't tell the children it was a drill and set off fake smoke in the corridors so that they would have to find alternate routes out of the school!
BlowDryRat · 18/02/2021 14:27

"Hello Mrs BlowDryRat, it's Miss X from school. I have a note here from you excusing miniRat from lessons this afternoon because you're taking her to the doctor. She told me not to ask you about it... No, I didn't think it was real either but she did take excellent care with her handwriting." - phonecall from 6yo DD's class teacher. The handwriting was indeed the best she's ever done, before or since, the little madam.

I was taken aside by 9yo DS' teacher at pickup one afternoon so she could talk to me about the 'inappropriate and violent' picture he'd drawn. It was of one stick man firing using a bow to fire an arrow into another stick man's buttock. I thought it was hilarious. The teacher was unimpressed.

shinynewapple21 · 18/02/2021 15:46

@cultkid

My sons nursery called and grilled me on broken blood vessels on his stomach, blood bruising.

I said. Have you cleaned it to check it's not raspberries from breakfast? He ate naked.

Few minutes on hold

Fake laughter oh yes ha ha fruit. I was really insulted

Sorry - but why were you insulted ?

That the nursery raises a legitimate concern when they thought your son was injured , or because they found it amusing that he has eaten his breakfast with no clothes on ?

KisstheTeapot14 · 18/02/2021 16:32

What an excellent thread.

Particularly liking the boy who said he had eaten an acorn and 'is she allergic to catterpillars?'

Cheered up a rainy afternoon, giggling about these.

KisstheTeapot14 · 18/02/2021 16:34

OMG Nipples the Mouse. Love it.

honeyharris · 18/02/2021 17:25

Asked to pick my 6 year old DS up because he'd eaten mud for a dare and been sick

Tumblebugsjump · 18/02/2021 17:37

Hi, your Tumblebugsjump junior has eaten some of the bird seed we were using to make bird feeders, sure they'll be ok, just wanted to let you knowGrin

Ihatefish · 18/02/2021 17:38

Phone call from school, ihatefish jnr crying hysterically because a girl told him she loved him (age 6). Apparently, when he calmed down he professed he was too young to get married and have babies😂

Wills · 18/02/2021 17:38

I've 2 to add

The first was a phone call from DD1's school, "umm Mrs Wills we're sure how but DD1 has lost her knickers". She'd been swimming!

The second was during DD2's year 2 parent's evening. I walked in heaving pregnant with DD3 (we'd also got a DS at this point). "Oh wow Mrs Wills, DD2 never told me she was going to have a sibling - oh how wonderful that she's not going to be an only child any more" She'd been at the school for 3 years! I was so floored I couldn't even point out that some people might chose/be capable to only have 1 etc etc.

Seahorsemama · 18/02/2021 17:44

I got a telling off call from the reception teachers saying that ds4 had pretended to lick another boys coat.... yup I was gobsmacked to say the least.

BlueThursday · 18/02/2021 17:48

DD has been stung on the tongue by a wasp but not to worry, we’ve removed it from the tongue with a credit card

caspersmagicaljourney · 18/02/2021 17:54

@Svrider

The school called whilst I was at work, and told the receptionist the NEEDED to speak to me ASAP

DS aged 5, had joined the wrong lunch queue

He had taken sandwiches, but had joined the dinner queue with his friends, and had had a school dinner. 😱

That made me laugh out loud, 🤣 and I work in a school. Thanks for making me smile today🎉
mylifestory · 18/02/2021 18:01

The school called the council who called me saying my daughter had come in to school injured. Yes, a very grazed knee. She did it the day before at school at a netball match I had been at. I thought they wouldve known instead of immediately reporting to SS! 1 up to me 😆

UnicornMadeOfPinkGlitter · 18/02/2021 18:01

@MargaretThursday

"Could you come up the the school quickly as X has had an accident?"

In my head I was packing for an overnight stay in hospital.

Reality was: she had wet herself and needed a change of clothes. Grin
I did speak to them about the way they told me.

I had the reverse of this. Ds2 in yr4 at the time. Can you come as he’s had an accident. I stop on my way there to collect clean pants and trousers. Thinking he can have a wash’s be change and go back to class. No he’d fallen against a chain link fence in the playground that had a spiky bush behind it and he had a large gouge taken out of his hip!! Required cleaning and stitches. Still don’t know why they didn’t take him to a&e.
Bookworm1988 · 18/02/2021 18:02

@Prufrocks

“Good afternoon Ms Frocks, we need to have a chat about little Pru. We’ve had new security cameras installed in the playground and he’s taken to flashing his willy at them.”
Grin actually howling at this it’s something my ds would do
puddleduckmummy · 18/02/2021 18:12

In reception, Good afternoon Mrs Puddleduck, I just needed to tell that you that Puddleduck Jnr has wee’d in another little boy 🙈 I was mortified. Head teacher was lovely, said it wasn’t malicious, he was just talking to the other boy at the urinal and forgot what he was doing and turned round mid stream and wee’d on him.

Snowymcsnowsony · 18/02/2021 18:16

In secondary school ds's teacher rang to say there had been an incident
. Tuned up and ds was holding a wet paper towel to his head. Apparently no teacher qualified in first aid in today. Split open across one side. Went straight to hospital.. They stapled it when he was awake. I fainted.
Turns out some pupils had been throwing bricks through classroom doors and one went through the glass and hit ds.
One of the boys df's came into my workplace to apologise on behalf of his ds. He was disgusted to tell me the lads had been issued with invoices for replacement glass and were excluded for a week. No punishment for assaulting ds though.

LisaD76 · 18/02/2021 18:22

My DD was in reception when I got a call from the school office telling me excitedly that “she was winning the race” It turned out that her whole class had decided to race at break, my dd who was the smallest was winning when someone’s toe caught the back of her foot, the result was that she smashed her head on a pole and needed taking to a&e to be glued. Fortunately her school were the type that would treat the children, so by the time I got there they had changed her clothes ( hers were drenched in blood ) and she had been comforted so she was no longer crying.... the cut was about half an inch on the brow line, you would have thought she’d opened a vein with the amount of blood