I'll keep this as brief as I can, but i'd really appreciate any opinions on this.
Last week my dd (8) bumped into another child at school at the corner of the playground. She 'bounced' off the other girl and hit her face on a metal railing. She then skidded, grazed her leg on the playground surface - finally ending up slicing her knee TO THE BONE on the steel baseplate (about 1cm high) of a large strut supporting an outside walkway on the first floor of the school.
She was rushed to hospital where she needed a lot of stitches to the leg, which will scar. The cut on her face is not large but is very prominent and caused 2 haemotoma (sp) which had to be drained. The whole thing has been very distressing for her and today we were told that she will, very prob, need surgeery on the facial scar when she's in her teens.
I'm now wondering if the school are at fault in any way. A friend said she thought those baseplates had to sunk below ground or 'sort of' tarmacced in. The school building is fairly old BTW. I suppose i'd just like to hear any thoughts on the matter and how you'd deal with it if it were your child.
The school have been very concerned about her ,particularly as she'd only been there 10 days! She is now getting rather down and i don't seem to be able to lift her up again. Thanks for listening.