Nursery World - School issues potty threat for parents

A Liverpool primary school has written to parents warning them that their foundation-stage children may have to be kept at home if they are not properly toilet-trained.

Trinity Catholic Primary, which has a nursery attached, sent out the letter after noting that staff were becoming increasingly concerned that children at the school were unable to go the toilet alone.

Headteacher Patricia Deus told parents that staff were having to take time out to help children go to the toilet at the expense of teaching. She said that potty training was not the school's job.

The letter said, 'We have a number of children entering foundation stage who are not properly toilet-trained. Staff are spending a considerable amount of time dealing with this. Unless your child has been diagnosed with a medical condition, it is not our job to toilet-train them. This is a parent's responsibility and you may be asked to keep your child at home until they are fully toilet-trained.'

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