Child injury at school

[jodie08]

My DS in Y4 came out of school yesterday hobbling. He said during indoor PE he heard his toe crack and so did his teacher. He was asked to miss afternoon play and rest it but no medical intervention took place. Nothing was mentioned by his teacher after school, no phone call, and no accident report.

We had to walk home 25 minutes, but if I’d have known DS was in so much pain I would have taken the car.
Last night and this morning he can barely walk so off to have it checked as I suspect a possible fracture.
Does anyone know what the procedure is for this type of injury at school because I would have thought it’s serious enough to mention to a parent.
AIBU to be annoyed at the school didn’t let me know?

Why did you make him walk home then when he told you? 😖 It doesn't matter if school didn't tell you if he did! Christ.

It's not good that you weren't informed if it was causing mobility issues. What I will say is I can fully understand (though not excuse) how it might've been an oversight to mention it at pick up (I must admit I am also quite astounded at Y4s still getting an afternoon playtime - sounds idyllic)!

Sadly, my experience of first aid in schools, both as an employee and as a parent is that it's not taken all that seriously and protocol isn't robust. Personally I would mention it and see what the response is before deciding how to progress. I would ignore the comments about hypocrisy. You may well have thought it just a sore knock at pick up and it may well not be a fracture. Doesn't excuse school not writing it down and notifying a parent though.

I'm finding first aid in schools weird at the moment. On the one hand, schools seem pretty keen to cover their backs with certain things and so inform parents on the phone. In other ways, they seem so concerned with attendance that certain things will not get as much attention as I think they deserve... And I do wonder if calling a parent to take the child and have them checked over might be more likely to happen after the afternoon mark. It's all bonkers and I will say, it's making it feel more and more like kids are just numbers by the day... The irony that they're trying to encourage attendance by withdrawing trust, understanding and empathy is not lost on me.

Nice to see things have improved since I was at primary School… Obviously not!

When I was in year three or four, a piece of equipment in PE got dropped on my foot my toe immediately swelled massively huge amount of bruising lots of pain, no one was called to collect me either and I was also just instructed to sit on the side for the rest of the session. Same as him I had to walk home, my mum had to half carry me, then had to call my grandparents to drive over and take me to the hospital as my dad had the car – all of this could’ve been sorted in a quick phone call from school but instead it took most of the evening to get sorted after school. It was broken and I lost the nail, had to buy me a new pair of trainers as well because my foot wouldn’t fit in any of the shoes that I had- And of course, only one foot fitted in it! 😂

I am really disappointed that this sort of thing is still happening in schools though

A lot of A&E 's will not x-ray a toe because the treatment is exactly the same whether it is broken or not. It gets strapped to the toe next to it. Although I do agree that the school should have probably mentioned it

That happened to me when I was 6. I fell in PE and told the teacher I’d hurt my ankle and she just brushed me off and said it would be fine.
I walked on it all day because she’d told me it was fine so I just hobbled about thinking that ‘if an adult says it’s fine it must be’. Mum took one look at my black, swollen ankle after school and took me straight to A+E and it was broken. When mum rang school the next day to tell them I’d broken my ankle and I’d be off for a day while I adjusted to using my crutches, the teacher denied I’d told her.
Ive never forgotten the injustice of it and I remember being shocked that a teacher would lie 😂

I was a teacher and a kid fell over during running. Just knew she wasn’t right. Called the actual first aider who said she was fine. I wasn’t happy. Called the parents to collect as I didn’t want responsibility. Turns out she had a fractured collar bone!! Parents spent the night in A&E

got burned before as parent sent their kid into school. He had SEND and behaviour was off the scale. This day he sat in the corner of classroom just crying his head hurt. Mum wouldn’t collect. Turns out he had concussion as he had run into a concrete bollard with mum and banged head. He was then in hospital on machines for a few days as it was bad. Mum tried to blame me!!
she also gave him chocolate after he had thrown a chair at me and fractured my finger! As he wasn’t that bad!

definitely follow up with school as it needs to be reported properly if it is a fracture as an accident at school.

oh yes, I remember the ‘wet paper towel’… the mother of all cures!!