To think you just don't do this to a child

[Notanotherone8765]

My daughter's whole class go swimming every Friday. They get the bus to the swimming pool which is about 15 minutes away.
On Friday they were finishing up their swimming (it's the last thing of the day) and the teacher then said that everyone had to stay in the pool except my daughter. Turns out one of the girls was having her birthday party at the pool straight after. My daughter then had to get in the bus with the teacher and they came back to the school. I was there for the bus getting back and asked why my daughter was the only one on the bus and that's when the teacher told me. I understand not everyone is invited to everyone's party but would there not have been a better way of doing this? My daughter and I am very upset and I want to know if you think I'm being unreasonable. All opinions will be considered. Thank you
Oh and my daughter is 6 for context

This absolutely outrageous!!! I would be devastated

I've messaged the OP and she's replied and she's really upset and she's not coming back to the thread.

So put that in your it's not halloween week or half term anywhere this week pipes and smoke it.

Disgraceful.

The UK is more than England you know. Our term dates are different. Our school systems are different. So is Scotland (I don't know about Wales, I'm sorry).

Some of you need to see further than the end of your English-centric noses.

So so so so many issues here. The school should absolutely not have done this/allowed this to happen.
my kids are off right now for a week if that helps at all to credit your claims.
Your poor daughter. I think I’d be looking to move schools

What on earth is the issue here? It's half term in plenty of schools. It's extremely common for half term to include Hallowe'en. If they describe it as Hallowe'en week in NI, or off for Hallowe'en, what's the big deal?

This

This just wouldn't happen in a state school. You couldn't just leave a class of children and hand over to a party. 🤣

I bet this is not the case.

Im not in the North...but all schools in the Republic are off for the week. And to blow people's minds further it is also a Bank Holiday here.
There were some mums at the primary school my kids attended who would have attempted this sort of thing.

I didn’t accuse you of troll hunting again… and I didn’t reported you either. I don’t apologise for reporting the thread on the first page as it sounded quite unbelievable, which literally everyone else at that point thought too, which mumsnet agreed with as they looked into it, it’s the correct procedure to follow on this site. Since it’s been put back up I’ve given advice to the OP, unlike you. So calm down dear, nobody’s trying to get anybody banned.

What is going on 😆 why have you name changed to post this?

Out of interest - is it a catholic school
Op?

My sons incident who h was similar was in a small state catholic school - the thinking seemed very old - I raised a complaint (the Xmas card incident )

i really think there should be harsher penalties for troll hunting. It wrecks threads.

im in England and on half term
now. my friend is in northern ireland and is also on half term and she referred to it as halloween holidays when i spoke to her at the weekend.

@Notanotherone8765
I'm n.ireland, and schools finished on Friday for a week, they also finish around 2 o'clock on Friday, I would really complain to the school in email about this, teachers should not facilitie this and allow one child to be left outso sorry this happened to your d.d x

This is your third reply (that I’ve seen) purely questioning/obsessing over the ‘off for Halloween’. Op (& others have explained this multiple times). Why so obsessive? If you don’t believe, move on?

Or do you just like the pile on? Like nitpicking? Op won’t come back because of bitchy replies like yours. Witch hunt.

This place used to be a supportive safe space .
Now it's just full of absolutely atrocious people who can't think outside of their own reality.

It needs addressing.

Why are posters who aren't from Northern Ireland saying that the Northern Irish posters and the OP are essentially lying about getting a week off for Halloween? [Hmm]

I'm also front NI, and yes, we absolutely DO get a week off for the Halloween break, and that's what we call it Halloween break. Why are people saying this is lies when plenty of Northern Irish posters have confirmed it to be true?

Just because something is done a certain way in England doesn't mean the rest of the UK does it that way.

Now you all know that schools in NI get a week off for Halloween... can we stop with the "absolutely no school gets a WHOLE WEEK off for Halloween, OP is a liar!!😱" and actually give the op some useful advice.

Knowing how tiny N Ireland primary classes are, I think this is disgusting and most likely breaks many policies including the bullying one.

i can imagine why this has happened - probably a popular mum with the teachers asking a ‘favour’. What I absolutely cannot fathom is that someone at the school thought it would be a good idea and not one of them considered your daughters feelings.

you absolutely must complain and take it all the way through.

Not defending the nay sayers, but I think they were expressing doubt as it SO BAD. Just how fucking rude of the parents. And I would bet that the school has some kindness type policy/mantra or whatever, I would point that out and tell them they've effectively taught an entire class that unkindness is fine. Also exclusion is a form of bullying and I would how ofsted would view this?!
I'm glad she's in the last year (think I'm right), it'll be better next year. Grrrr.

Schools legally have to hand children off to their parents, they can't just leave them somewhere.

Oh dear. Better warn all those schools that are happily letting childminders and nannies pick up children, or sending them off to after school care.

OP I'd take the fact that people find this so unbelievable as a sign of just how terrible it was.

To those saying kids don't get Halloween off, most of the schools round where we are in Birmingham are off for half term this week ...

OP - I'm so sorry your daughter is having to go through with this, it definitely could have been handled a lot better by everyone involved starting with the school refusing to leave the children at the pool for the party.

Terrible

I think OP said her DD was 6, not in Year 6, @Passepartoute

One of mine is off all this week and next Monday lol 😱 Yes it’s half term, but yes everyone calls it Halloween holidays. Can’t believe that’s what’s being picked out on this thread.
What the op’s child has been through is awful. The parents are awful but that can’t be helped, but the school, I would be going mad!!
For those talking about swimming supervision. One teacher taking a child is not abnormal, as it’s actually the pool staff who teach/supervise. Parents would have had to take over when the teacher stopped and probably needed a ratio of parents/kids. My child started school swimming lessons at 7 in p4 but another school in my town start at age 6, p3.

Loads of us in England are off also.