DD goes to a very small village school where there are only a handful of girls in her year. She has had problems integrating with the other girls on and off for some years, but it has got more difficult in the last year, and I think the dynamics have become quite unpleasant. To be fair she is quite immature and oversensitive, so I've always assumed she's part of the problem really (as have her teachers in the past), but she's now become really quite unhappy, and I really don't know how to help her as I think her own relatively poor social skills are being made worse in a rather claustrophobic and difficult environment (I know several other girls are also very unhappy). I've talked to the teacher several times but she hasn't been helpful, and to be fair, I'm not sure what she could do.
I'm thinking of moving her to a much larger school where she would be in a class of around 30, but am worried she'll struggle there and be even unhappier- it's really difficult to get to the bottom of what is a result of her own social skills and what is the environment she's in. She very sociable and finds making friends easy, but can be quite intense and is not so great at maintaining longer term relationships / coping with fallings out etc. She's quite keen to look into moving schools. Half of me thinks I really need to give her the benefit of the doubt and even if she struggles at least she has some opportunity to meet children she may gel with and develop her skills. She's going to have to earn to be in a larger class anyway when she goes to secondary school in a few years, so again this may enable us to get a heads up as to whether she's likely to be able to cope. I don't want to try another small village school as I think the same thing could just happen again.
Has anyone been in the same situation, or have any advice?
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Moving DD from a smaller to a larger school due to friendship issues?
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diplodocus · 04/07/2016 12:05
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