I originally told you about the problems we were having with snacks at school here. The school had changed the way they were doing snacks and H was no longer getting his snack every day for one reason or another. I did write to the school and they replied promising things would be better.
And they were better. J has got his snack most days and whilst the new system was still a bit of a pain, it was working ok. But, now we’ve hit some more problems. J’s wallet disappeared. He claimed to have looked for it without success and he said his teacher and teaching assistant knew he was missing. He didn’t get his snack because he didn’t have his purse.
The next day I sent in the money in a little plastic bag, but by snack time it had gone missing. So no snack. The next day he had a mix of coins loose in his book bag because I only remembered at the last minute. By snack time he’d lost one of the coins. So no snack.
I had a word with the deputy head the next morning as she was on playground duty. She said she’d look into it and make sure that day’s money was safe. That seemed to happen. J had his snack and his purse turned up – it had been in his pump bag. I had asked the first day if it was there, but he’d told me not to be silly: it wouldn’t be there.
So it certainly seems J is a bit absentminded and disorganised about his snack money. I’m not sure if there is anything more sinister at play like another child stealing. At the moment I don’t think so. I guess we’ll have to hope J gets more organised about his money.
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