My daughter has displayed a new behaviour. The past week and a half, she has not been wearing shoes. In school, she will not wear them, if she goes offsite, depending where she's going, she will just slip them on so they aren't fully on or won't wear them if it's a short distance from the car to the building where she won't need to wear shoes, eg, flip out or ice skating.
We aren't sure what is going on and the school have no clue because she wears shoes fine at home so it's only school. Hopefully someone can help us find an answer, so I will explain her day:
Staff picked her up from home, she slipped her shoes on and straight away took them off in the car.
Drove to her Sport lesson, had no shoes on, when they arrived, she ran out the car onto the wet floor to go ice skating. Put skates on with help from staff with no problem. After her lesson she ran out the building, no shoes on and jumped in a massive puddle, started spinning round in circles so had wet feet and the bottom of her joggers were wet to but managed to persuade her to put clean dry socks on, no problem there.
When they arrived back to school, she ran out the car, overwhelmed, not sure why yet because she was fine all morning. She ran out the car, no shoes on or coat, and it was raining and she is a quick runner so took them about 5 minutes to find her. When they found her she was dysregulated so they hugged her to calm her down, she tried running into the road so had to hold her so then she laid down on the road, next to the pavement so they moved her quickly. She was then banging her head on the wall and punching herself. She calmed down and she was shivering, soaked so staff got out the emergency foil blanket. She went back to school with staff, using staff shoes, and was wrapped up in blankets, hot chocolate, and a change of clothes. She then slept until it was time to go home.
Don't know what happened today but she is refusing to wear shoes so school are buying some slippers so it's safe. The shoes aren't too big, too small, too tight but something isn't right but she hasn't said what. She is verbal so we do ask her.
And one more thing, she keeps walking outside in the school garden when it's wet, which is basically everyday, with no shoes on, sits down or lies down. If anyone can have a guess with what's going on we appreciate it.
Thank you for reading all this, she's never done this before and we want to help and understand. Sorry for the long post and rant. The school have emailed me everyday about this because it is worrying them and it isn't too safe for her to not wear shoes. It's only in school which is just confusing for everyone.