TinyTinker
04-02-2015, 12:39 PM
I thought the roads/pavements weren't to bad this morning, but when we actually go out there I soon found the pavements and roads were all like sheet ice!
I had a triple pushchair (not all side by side) and also had 3 x 5 year olds and an 9 year old to walk to school. So I have a strap (set of reins) that I get the walking 5 year olds to hold onto in a line behind me - our pavements are only wide enough for the double width pushchair and not much space beside for children holding on or walking beside me! I have my 9 year old walk behind the line.
So we were walking up the road and I was finding the big heavy mountain style pushchair was sliding and not gripping as good and I was also not able to grip with my feet good enough to counteract it....so precariously we continued. We then had to cross a minor road, about half way across one of the 5yo slipped over and I looked back to see them in the middle of the road on all fours! I obviously couldn't let go of my large pushchair to go fetch him so was calling for him to get up and out of the road etc - he looked like bambi on ice bless him, every time he went to get up he slipped over again. The rest of the children were safe on the pavement by this time - my 9 year old grabbed him and helped him up by the coat and managed to get him to the side of the road - in this time a car had come along and we had waved him down to stop - as he didn't seem to be slowing down for the situation in front of him:panic:
Anyway - I felt that this incident was enough to prove it was too dangerous in these kind of conditions = Am I in my rights to send letters out to parents stating if conditions are bad (even if schools feels it's safe to open) I may not do the morning school run or children would be late! I was also going to contact the school regarding this. My husband (assistant) gets back around 9am and could then take them all in his 4x4 land rover so they would be like 20-30 minutes late for school.
I had a triple pushchair (not all side by side) and also had 3 x 5 year olds and an 9 year old to walk to school. So I have a strap (set of reins) that I get the walking 5 year olds to hold onto in a line behind me - our pavements are only wide enough for the double width pushchair and not much space beside for children holding on or walking beside me! I have my 9 year old walk behind the line.
So we were walking up the road and I was finding the big heavy mountain style pushchair was sliding and not gripping as good and I was also not able to grip with my feet good enough to counteract it....so precariously we continued. We then had to cross a minor road, about half way across one of the 5yo slipped over and I looked back to see them in the middle of the road on all fours! I obviously couldn't let go of my large pushchair to go fetch him so was calling for him to get up and out of the road etc - he looked like bambi on ice bless him, every time he went to get up he slipped over again. The rest of the children were safe on the pavement by this time - my 9 year old grabbed him and helped him up by the coat and managed to get him to the side of the road - in this time a car had come along and we had waved him down to stop - as he didn't seem to be slowing down for the situation in front of him:panic:
Anyway - I felt that this incident was enough to prove it was too dangerous in these kind of conditions = Am I in my rights to send letters out to parents stating if conditions are bad (even if schools feels it's safe to open) I may not do the morning school run or children would be late! I was also going to contact the school regarding this. My husband (assistant) gets back around 9am and could then take them all in his 4x4 land rover so they would be like 20-30 minutes late for school.