When I dropped my 6 year old DD off at school yesterday morning she was fine. I picked her up at 3 and could see whilst she was waiting in the line at the classroom door that she looked very white and unwell. When she got over to me she burst into tears and said she'd had a headache and bad earache since morning break (10am) and had told 3 staff members, including her class teacher whom she told repeatedly, and although they'd agreed she looked white and felt hot, no one had called me.
I feel quite upset that DD had to spend an entire day feeling rubbish and clearly unwell, at school, when I was at home only 2 minutes away from the school all day and would happily have gone to collect her. I know some children do play on feeling ill but DD isn't like this and is usually very accurate and sensible with what she says, and in any case even if she did normally play on it, it was just so obvious that she was ill, she just looked so white. Her class teacher seems to be off sick at the drop of a hat so clearly doesn't want to be in school herself when ill, so I can't see why she would expect a 6 year old to just carry on.
I phoned the school, who said it seemed as though there had been a breakdown in communications, and that all the staff members thought that another would phone me. I said that I was cross about this and that I also felt sad for DD having to get through the day feeling so ill. She said at one point she just couldn't stop shivering, and she told the teacher on duty at lunch break who said "go and run round the playground". In addition to the teacher at lunchbreak and her class teacher, she also told the teacher that her class have for non-contact time during the afternoon.
Just to add that I'm normally very happy with the school and DD loves going, so in the grand scheme of things this is a very minor thing but I can't help feeling annoyed.