To have a word with the nursery?

[lauraloveskitsch]

DD1 is 3.6 and in nursery five afternoons a week. We got the newsletter yesterday and this term they're learning about animals. They will have a selection of animals coming in provided by parents which the children will learn about and be able to handle.

DH was up there earlier to find the children had already met a big chocolate labrador and tomorrow will meet a ferret.

AIBU to have a word with the nursery? There have been no consent forms given, the newsletter was handed out late and the only people who knew about this are the parents who are bringing animals and are friends outside the school with the teachers.

What if there was an incident? AIBU about this? FWIW I would sign the consent form but I wish I'd been informed and had a choice.

Thread is making my afternoon. A ferret! Nooooooooooooo. Run for your lives!

I bet they dont have "show and tell" any more...

It would take three months to complete the risk assessments and get all parents to sign their consent before little Jeremy was allowed to bring in a stone he found at the beach.

I think the nursery should have you sign a consent form before they bring othe children in. Bloody dangerous, they are.

It would take three months to complete the risk assessments and get all parents to sign their consent before little Jeremy was allowed to bring in a stone he found at the beach

Yes squeakytoy - l can see it now

..and Johnny you say these are the actual scissors pulled out of daddys back when mummy had pmt and daddy left the toilet seat up ??

On a serious note, I feel really sorry for the nursery staff. I would imagine the OP isn't the only parent who's a bit uptight and that they probably will get a complaint. It's just so frustrating as a teacher to plan an activity that's educational, engaging, fun, the whole shebang only to have a parent point out one tiny totally unimportant thing (in this case, late newsletters) and complain about it. OP seriously, that activity will have taken a lot of organisation and the staff went out of their way to make the day fun for your daughter. Don't kick them in the teeth for it, please.

Lol this is so funny!! Pfb at it's best....or worst.... Not quite sure!

Our nursery had a puppy in one day - it belonged to the manager's daughter who had had an emergency and needed someone to look after it.

The children loved it and as far as I know no-one got their knickers in a twist about consent or prior warning. Presumably if any of the children had allergies they would have been kept away or the puppy wouldn't have been brought in.

I understand where you're coming from but it's unrealistic to expect them to send out a consent form for every fiddle farting thing that goes on in Nursery and this does fall under that catagory.
Don't worry. They won't put your child or any child in danger. The first I knew about my DD stroking a lizard was when I was told by her that lunchtime.

at squeaky. I just snorted in public.

TBH I'd be more worried about the safety of a tiger if it was put in a room of pre-schoolers.

Full cotton wool body suit is the only safe option here I think.

Squeaky you are so right!!! Funny but also a bit sad, the world has gone bloody mad, I swear it has.

OP, bless you but YABU!

What kind of incident can a ferret cause?? Picturing a slapstick ferret up a trouser leg scenario. People like you baffle the fuck out of me, you really do. What happens when your kid walks down the street and sees a cat, or a dog, or a fish in the sea, or a frog by a pond, or a bird on a branch?

Have you been watching too many episodes of Worlds Deadliest Animals?!

If I were you I'd quit work, stay home wrapped in bubble wrap rocking and singing to myself.

FGS Squeky it's you that's being U, tea down the nose hurts

OP get a bloody grip.

Have you been watching too many episodes of Worlds Deadliest Animals?!

I would hedge my bets with a no to that one... its is probably banned for being too gory and violent! "Worlds Fluffiest Bunnies" is possibly ok with with parental supervision though..

Ahhh hang on a moment people.... I think I have realised the issue..

it was a "CHOCOLATE" labrador..

thats the problem! the child might just potentially lick it...

@ squeaky

Ok I think the OP has the message now, this is getting a bit nasty.

I agree with all the points made about incidents occurring anyway and it all being a bit melodramatic but for the Nursery's own sake they should have carried out risk assessments (probably for each different animal), and have a policy relating to animals in the Nursery if they are going to have them in on a frequent/regular basis.

Not saying I necessarily think it's right that they have to jump through these hoops, but my work involves a lot of this sort of thing and I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't have these things in place. Our nursery decided we wouldn't have anything involving live animals on the premises as it saved us writing up yet another policy that would rarely be used!

at coraltoes and most of these programmes come to the conclusion that humans are by far the deadliest and this poor child is surrounded by about twenty of the little blighters - but dont worry there's always the most dangerous of this deadly species - an adult female - to protect her - the teacher.

Mwahahahahahahahah.

sure but it us still funny :) perhaps a bit mean but ............seriously? a risk assesment and a consent slip to look at a lab?