School injury with photo

[Sam117]

DD is in year 1. A classmate pushed her in the playground, she fell over, scraped her cheek and nose. Not sure if visible from the image but her cheek and side of nose are a bit swollen too. She's saying it's very sore and is finding it uncomfortable to sleep on the side of her face. And she feels ugly. 😔

Am I to raise this with the school? Would this leave a scar? What would help it heal quickly?

She's very brave but admitted to crying a lot all afternoon. I feel so upset that I wasn't there to console her.

Thanks again everyone for your posts.

Thankfully, DD was fine this morning. The bruise appeared smaller although still a little swollen. I've put sudocrem on.

We've also had a chat about the ugly comment. I told her that she is a beautiful girl both inside and out. We talked about all her amazing qualities - how kind and gentle she is, her gorgeous curls etc. She was very happy to be reassured and was very smiley

I praise and encourage DD regularly. But seeing how happy she was to hear the above, I will definitely need to remind her of her qualities every day.