Can you imagine the fear of a 5-year-old new boy? Suddenly being locked in a narrow toilet, far away from the noisy playing hall, crying long time but nobody can hear him? And the staff even wasn’t aware at all, ‘he got locked just a few minutes’, looks like a common bully in UK which is normal… Really?
No, never!
I just wanted to share the terrible accidents happening on my 5-year-old boy when he attended Kings Camp this summer. Bullies can never be tolerated. Hope all parents can see this and avoid the same pain.
My 5-year-old boy attended the summer session of Kings Camp. He is just new to UK, very shy and quiet. We hope to make the little boy like UK and adapt to the coming P1 by camping, but on the first day with Kings Camp he got bullied. Some older children stamped on his clothes and maliciously pinched his face every now and then, making him too scared to speak out. We reported to the staff but they just said they ‘didn’t see that’ and all these continued happening in the following every day.
On Wet Wednesday, an event when children playing water guns, this camp just didn’t have sufficient guns so older children had guns and youngers became targets. My poor boy just stood there without any protection or place to hide, being shot by older children around him for over one hour and get overwhelmingly wet. Again, when we confront the staff he just ‘didn’t see that’. My boy now doesn’t like water fun anymore, scared that he would only become target of bullets!
The most horrible thing is that he was locked in toilet by some older children intentionally from outside, crying a long time until someone happened to go to toilet and found him. Kings Camp declared that under 8s will be supervised by staff member and have a buddy with them, but they actually didn’t follow that at all. They had a separate toilet outside the playing hall, the toilet is just normal size for adults with high and heavy doors, and they just let the wee one went alone. Again, they said they ‘didn’t see’ my boy out because they were ‘too busy’. When I complained this accident to one manager, she even didn’t care and said my boy was locked ‘just a few minutes’!
There was no CCTV so nobody can know how long he had been locked. What is so real is that my boy is so scared! Until now he doesn’t dare to go to toilet alone. We lodged formal complaint towards the institution but up until now all we got are various dodging explanations from their different staff. We haven’t even received any formal apology from them:
‘We are busy’.
‘I didn’t see it.’
‘The toilet door was locked from outside but must by someone not belonging to our camp’ but then ‘No one can enter to the building without camp’s permission’.
‘Someone locked the door but there was no CCTV so we didn’t know who did it’ but then ‘The toilet door was locked by your boy himself.’
‘He went to toilet himself. Nobody saw him out.’
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Obviously, Kings Camp doesn’t provide sufficient staff or facilities as they declared. They promised a lot on their website and Ads but they don’t really follow. Children, especially younger ones, are just surviving by themselves. And the staff at Kings Camp are neither qualified nor experienced. Some of the staff don’t care about children at all. Many of the staff looked like part-time or students. They are no more than making money – less staff, less facilities, and more children.