littleelm
30-11-2011, 08:12 PM
Hello Everyone,
I don't really know whether to be concerned or not, so I thought I'd get some opinions off you lovely folk!
I was walking past my local pre-school this afternoon at about 3.40pm. It is attached to the local primary school, but the primary school was closed today because of the strike. The pres-school remained open. I have never been in the school or the pre-school as haven't lived here that long.
There was a little boy who was four or five in the outside 'garden' area attached to the preschool and he was on top of a small climbing frame. There was NOBODY with him at all and there is no way into that garden area aside from going through the pre-school.
I know the pre-school was in session today as I saw two staff and presumably their own children (of a variety of ages... who i'm assuming they took into the pre-school for the day as the school was closed) walking away from the building about 20 minutes later when I walked past again on my way back from the corner shop.
Before i'd come on these boards, I would probably have thought nothing of it. But it really did send off alarm bells for me. Namely that he could have fallen off that equipement and really hurt himself. He was at least 4 feet up on the climbing frame.
What would you do? If I were to report it, who do I report it too? I don't know if the school is in charge of the pre-school or if it's a seperate entity that just runs on the same site. So I don't know if reporting it to the school would be the right thing? Can I/should I report it to OFSTED?
Many thanks and sorry it's a bit of a rant!
xxx
I don't really know whether to be concerned or not, so I thought I'd get some opinions off you lovely folk!
I was walking past my local pre-school this afternoon at about 3.40pm. It is attached to the local primary school, but the primary school was closed today because of the strike. The pres-school remained open. I have never been in the school or the pre-school as haven't lived here that long.
There was a little boy who was four or five in the outside 'garden' area attached to the preschool and he was on top of a small climbing frame. There was NOBODY with him at all and there is no way into that garden area aside from going through the pre-school.
I know the pre-school was in session today as I saw two staff and presumably their own children (of a variety of ages... who i'm assuming they took into the pre-school for the day as the school was closed) walking away from the building about 20 minutes later when I walked past again on my way back from the corner shop.
Before i'd come on these boards, I would probably have thought nothing of it. But it really did send off alarm bells for me. Namely that he could have fallen off that equipement and really hurt himself. He was at least 4 feet up on the climbing frame.
What would you do? If I were to report it, who do I report it too? I don't know if the school is in charge of the pre-school or if it's a seperate entity that just runs on the same site. So I don't know if reporting it to the school would be the right thing? Can I/should I report it to OFSTED?
Many thanks and sorry it's a bit of a rant!
xxx