Child came with a cut

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My 5yo came home yesterday with a cut. He said he had been pushed by another child whilst playing as the other child wanted the ball. DS is is too polite and I believe he told him not to do it again nicely.

we haven’t been informed by the school although DS did say that he told his teacher. What are school policies regarding this? He also fell and hurt his knee yesterday and apparently the teacher couldn’t see because they couldn’t pull his trousers up.

i pick him up from after school club so I hardly have direct contact with his class teacher.

How bad was the cut? Was it a cut or just a scratch and how big?

My recollection from primary is you normally only hear from the school if they have banged their heads.

The school
should be informing you to this. Call tomorrow and ask why they have not. This is not acceptable

Only need to tell a parent if there’s been a head bang although is good practise to do an accident form for anything requiring first aid

Most playground scrapes do not require a letter home as the child is perfectly capable of explaining how they hurt themselves. If it was a serious injury then yes, but a cut knee or whatever then no.

It depends how bad it is. If he needed first aid you should be told.

I would email school and report the incident and ask if any first aid was given. It is worth letting them know he was pushed so they can bear that in mind.

What sort of a cut. If it needed any sort of treatment you should have been informed. If you dont have contact with the teacher are you just basing the details in your post on your DS version. I would say dont sweat the small stuff or you will be very stressed by the time he has finished Primary school.

How bad was the injury? Schools don't inform for every tiny cut and scrape. Banged heads and nasty injuries are a different matter.

First year of school DS would come home with a first aid sticker. After that, only notified if it’s a head injury.

We only inform of banged heads or significant injury.

Kids scrape their knees/elbows/hips every single day. Some are regular offenders.

We only get bump notes for head injuries. It would have to be a serious injury to be notified if it was anywhere else a cut that required stitches or a suspected break for example. The only phone call home I had for my DS was a deep head injury that needed glue and stitches.

That’s fine. Seems like standard practise then. It’s just that another child pushed him and he keeps saying this child is always doing it. Not sure if anything is being done behind the scenes.

@Wibbly1008 if a teacher had to inform parents about every little bump or scrape a 5 year old has, they'd be filling in forms all day long

At my school we would fill in a first aid form for a cut but many schools have now lost their TAs and so the teachers just wouldn't have time for that.

He also fell and hurt his knee yesterday and apparently the teacher couldn’t see because they couldn’t pull his trousers up.

If a child can't pull their trouser leg up, the only way for an adult to see the knee would be to have the child pull their trousers down. That's not very nice for the child, and also requires (in our school at least) a second adult to be present for safeguarding reasons.

Normal practice would be to have the child go into the toilets themselves, have a look and then report back to the teacher on whether there was any blood etc. If a child was finding it difficult to weight-bear or had obvious signs of bleeding through their clothing then we'd want to take a closer look. If it seems minor then there's not that much that we can do.

If your child is telling you that they are being hurt by someone, you should talk to the teacher and let them know what's been said so that they can look into it.

If this child is always pushing your son then that’s needs raising with the teacher. Maybe mention it at drop off.