10yr old dd with sprained ankle, sats,no crutches, no car!

laurel7172

I'm not saying it's impossible, but taking papers to a child's home would be fraught with difficulties, especially in the case of a monitoring visit. It's strongly recommended that there are two administrators in any room where testing is taking place, for a start.

That said, I work in Year 6, and if any parent rings up on Monday morning to say that their child is well but can't walk, I'm absolutely certain somebody will be on the doorstep with a car a few minutes later.

Thank you for worrying about it, OP. I hope your daughter is feeling better tomorrow, but if you are concerned about getting her there, please ring the school office at 8am and see what they suggest.

And...ummm..a happy SATS week to us all....:eek:

thegirlintheattic

SATS papers can be taken home in exceptional circumstances. Teacher must be there during the test - but would probably be easier to get a lift in. Ring school before 8am, and I'm sure someone will be able to sort a lift out.

pollypenny

I would say 'To hell with the SATs'. If your daughter is in pain with her ankle, she probably will not perform to her best, anyway.

I can't speak for maths and science, but we were always appalled at the standard of marking of English SATs.

sulkisu

Book a cab.

mandragora_2

They're SATs, not GCSE's. They matter more to the school than to the child. If you can get her in somehow, great, she can take them. If not, and if you and the school really feel it's important for her to go through a 'testing' process, then she can take some 'mock' papers at school when she returns. Her teachers will be able to assess her well enough for the secondary school to have the information they need.

Bigmoney2

Well for what its worth the replies so far seem very optimistic to me.

I sprained my ankle a few years back and was off work for a month.

It was a bad sprain and I couldn't drive (clutch foot). I also had to see Occupational Health on my return to ascertain what duties I could/couldn't do and to make sure I wasn't a safety risk (e.g. if building needed to be evacuated ).


I have worked with people that have requested to work with legs in plaster/on crutches and they have been restricted in duties and only allowed on the ground floor incase of fire evacuations and had someone allocated to assist in leaving the building etc.


I appreciate schools are different but would have thought that a risk assessment would be needed at the very least.

Spendless

E-mail the school today explaining the situation. I have known my youngest's HT to respond by e-mail 'out of hours', so it's possible that between you you can come up with some sort of strategy either tonight or before school starts tomorrow morning.

Hope you daughter is ok.

rachbc

Owl wrote: »

Hi,
I've taught y6 for a number of years!! See how she is on Monday!! Then if there are problems, ring schoo ASAP.... Us teachers are kindly souls and will do everything in our power to make life easy!! I have got pupils before, had one sit in a room on his own cos he panicked, had one sat on her own with the sick bowl etc etc....
Owl xx

Perhaps the kinder thing would have been to not allow children to get into such as state about a meaningless test and not put them through the anxiety in the first place...

Schools' kindliness only seems to extend to things that matter to them not the the children

pinkladyof66

I dont understand what the problem is when you have taxis you can hire. A taxi can drop her off at school and bring her home.

tyllwyd

My dd turned her foot over and hurt it quite badly for a few days - we got some walking sticks from Argos which werent really child sized but were good enough to help her while she was at the hopping around stage. And since then they've come in handy a few times so quite a good thing to have in the house anyway.