So worried about DD and school, reassurance?

Oldernotwiser

pulliptears wrote: »

Part of the issue seems to stem from the previous injury - she was banned from P.E and exercise for so long returning to full fitness has been hard for her. We did ask her P.E teacher to show her some exercises to help strengthen the muscles she has neglected over the last 12 months, this was met with a "I don't really know any" from a disinterested P.E Teacher :eek:

Actually, I think that's a very sensible and responsible reply from the PE teacher. Has your daughter seen a Physiotherapist?

seriousDFW

I'm sorry to hear of your predicament. I am a maths teacher and I fully recommend using MyMaths - especially if your child's school uses it fully, as they may have set tasks for the class to do. Ask for an individual student login if they do use it (schools pay for it so it may not be available to you). But anyway sounds like you've got it sorted.

Just curious - what was she carrying the first time this happened? I get pupils to carry lots of things so I'm worried now!

lilibet1

just wanted to let you know that my ds had a serious leg injury playing rugby at school nov last year and had pretty much the whole school year off with operations and the like. School sent in a home tutor for 5 hours a week. He is in year 11 now so missing most of year 10 was not good. However, someone said to me that school work can be caught up with...the body needs to heal. If your dd knee doesnt get sorted properly now it will cause her no end of problems for the rest of her life. My advice is to make her rest from now until they go back to school in jan.Use the internet to do work i.e maths sites. If she needs to go back in a wheelchair next year so be it. Oh and most importantly IMHO make the most of her being at home....naughty i know x x

pulliptears

seriousDFW wrote: »

I'm sorry to hear of your predicament. I am a maths teacher and I fully recommend using MyMaths - especially if your child's school uses it fully, as they may have set tasks for the class to do. Ask for an individual student login if they do use it (schools pay for it so it may not be available to you). But anyway sounds like you've got it sorted.

Just curious - what was she carrying the first time this happened? I get pupils to carry lots of things so I'm worried now!

It was something incredibly simple. Teacher had given her a pile of books, a pile so big that they stretched from under her chin and stretched her arms. They were quite heavy text books. Teacher had realised she was struggling and sent her down in the lift. The stretching caused the nerve injury so when the pile was put down the nerve tore and her arm collapsed to her side completely numb. It was an incredibly scary time, though a one in a million occurrence.

Moral is dont let the kids carry too many books lol

pulliptears

lilibet1 wrote: »

just wanted to let you know that my ds had a serious leg injury playing rugby at school nov last year and had pretty much the whole school year off with operations and the like. School sent in a home tutor for 5 hours a week. He is in year 11 now so missing most of year 10 was not good. However, someone said to me that school work can be caught up with...the body needs to heal. If your dd knee doesnt get sorted properly now it will cause her no end of problems for the rest of her life. My advice is to make her rest from now until they go back to school in jan.Use the internet to do work i.e maths sites. If she needs to go back in a wheelchair next year so be it. Oh and most importantly IMHO make the most of her being at home....naughty i know x x

Wise words. Its so hard not to go into panic mode and think 'Oh my gosh her education!' but you are so very right.

Hope your son is ok now? Aren't kids fab?!

angelil

Lots of great suggestions here already. If she does have to study at home for a time then the CGP books are brilliant for KS3 and KS4 (sounds like that's roughly how old she is; KS3 goes from age 11-14 and KS4 from 14-16). They'll help her keep up with the curriculum and also serve as great study aids once she's back in school.

Try to get her in school after Christmas in a wheelchair if possible/required though. A lot of school is the social side - in terms of interacting with adults and peers - and you could all be driven potty if you have to be with each other all the time, no matter how lovely she is

charlieann

I'm disappointed in both the response from OP's school and some of the replies.
If the school are aware a pupil is going to be absent they need to send relevent work home so they don't fall behind. obviously if it is long term then other arrangements such as home tutoring needs to be looked at but i think that is down to lea rather than school.
If it is not detrimental to the pupil's health then possible a reduced timetable and attending half days would be better than none.

As for it being the weeks leading up to Christmas the school should be still teaching the curriculum. Taking time out of the curriculum for Christmasy activities is not acceptable in my opinion. Too many students begin to see the last few weeks as winding down and if schools take the same attitude at Easter and end of summer that could be upto 6 weeks lost time.

Mojisola

Many schools are very poor at providing work for children who are ill to do at home. There's no excuse for this. Keep pushing the school until they fulfil their obligations to your daughter.

Remember that a lot of the school day is taken up with moving from place to place, settling down at the beginning of each lesson, waiting while teachers deal with bad behaviour, etc, etc. Your daughter won't have to do many hours at home to easily keep up with her peers at school.

dizziblonde

Aaah 2 pages before it descended into the usual teacher bashing...

Mojisola

dizziblonde wrote: »

Aaah 2 pages before it descended into the usual teacher bashing...

If you're referring to my post - as an ex-teacher and a long-serving governor I have a lot of respect for teachers but my own experience and that of other parents of children with ME in our area is that schools are not good at helping children with health problems.

We all had immense difficulties getting the schools to send work home. Sometimes when it was provided, it was just a photocopied series of workbook pages, not the work the class was doing, and sometimes the same work was sent home several times.

The schools were receiving money for the children who were still on roll but they just couldn't arrange to get work out for them.