Punching boy at school

The best option is to push away and say, “Stop it X!” so an adult can hear. Keep a diary at home of when it happens as well. This can be very helpful to the school, especially if you include what’s happened immediately before and after the child is hitting people. You say there’s no known SEN but it’s relatively rare to get a diagnosis at that age, there may well be one further down the line. There may also be consequences for the child that others aren’t aware of so it’s not certain that he’s getting away with it.
Interesting how many people are referring to the child as a bully. Bullying has a very specific definition which isn’t really being met here. The behaviour is clearly unacceptable but requires something different to the bullying policy.

As a teacher. tell him to punch back.

I punched my bully in the nose when I was in year six after she cornered me and started hitting me. She left me alone after that. Wish I had done it four years earlier.

*Teach him how to box.

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''The bully’s parents can pay for your babysitting costs''
That's a funny idea lol

I love all the posts saying for the child to hit the bully back instead of reporting it to a member of staff🤣

What a move from an 8 year old

Far more likely to fall and hit their head from being forcefully pushed which is what many are advocating as the way to deal with the bully.

A punch in the face from a young child is extremely unlikely to have enough force to floor the bully but would hopefully bust their lip or smash their nose, etc.

Primary school children are not going to kill another child by punching them

The punch is not the problem. A subsequent falling and hitting your head as a result most cetainly can.

The boy quite badly hurt another child yesterday. No doctors required but an ice pack and had to be collected from school early. After that he still had the chance to kick my son and to try and punch him

This is sounding really serious. I would be looking at forming an action group and getting a group of people in front of the head teacher. It is only a matter of time before he hits somebody that falls badly and gets seriously hurt.

Do they have facilities to get this kid on solitary confinement?

I’m the very opposite of combative and confrontational. I’m actually a bit wet and people pleasey, but the way I would blow up at the school for allowing this to continue would be one of epic proportions. This is just not okay, your child has a right to be safe in his school and it’s the schools job to safeguard their students! They’re failing at that evidently.

This child clearly isn’t going to stop so I think you’d need to really kick off or take it further. I’m unsure where you could turn to if there’s no governor’s though? That makes it very difficult. Maybe you and the other hurt child’s parents could work together to make the complaint?

After years of bullying , one of my DS's thumped the bully in the head and literally nearly killed him. It is easy to cause horrific injury by punching someone.

1. Primary school children are not going to kill another child by punching them.
2. It's a risky business being a bully. Live by the sword, etc...

DS couldn't have effectively hit back as he was a lot smaller and lighter and would not have been confident to do it. The only choice I had was to blow up at the school. It helps that I'm a confident professional able to assert myself with headteachers, I realise not everyone wants to do that.

We’ve had similar and the way to get the teachers/TA any adults notice is to touch that safeguarding butto in their heads. No need to shout but need to be a clear direct loud voice - “Stop It, Don’t touch me, I don’t like it » you need a phrase that gets the teacher to spin round and draw attention to that child. Normally children do not want an adults negative attention- but the teachers capturing the moment rather than a he said she said is so much more powerful.

My DS was punched hard on a few occasions by the same boy in year 2. DS is quite small and this other boy was a bit of a thug overall. Each time I came down hard on the school - speaking to the teacher, sending emails, demanding that my son was kept safe in school. Threatening to report to ofsted as a safeguarding concern. On one of the occasions he split my sons lip. The school took it seriously and it stopped.

No, no, no, please be very careful with this approach.
After years of bullying , one of my DS's thumped the bully in the head and literally nearly killed him. It is easy to cause horrific injury by punching someone.
I think the right thing to do is to shout loudly and push them away.

I think many PPs on this thread would disagree. Me included.

Just read your last update - if the school can’t/won’t - you honestly need to change schools.

You need to escalate this!

Teacher, Deputy Head, Head and if no joy the Board of Governors and everything else. Communicate formally in writing, get back up. Be all over it.

I don’t think telling a kid to hit back is the answer, although in self defence I wouldn’t blame you or a kid but in reality this isn’t the way to sort it. By its very nature aggression is chaotic and causes harm - so he could end up being punched back or god knows.

This happened to my son a few years ago. A boy kept kicking him on purpose when playing football. I told him next time push him to the ground. He did and it stopped immediately. They're mates now.

This happened to my son a few years ago. A boy kept kicking him on purpose when playing football. I told him next time push him to the ground. He did and it stopped immediately. They're mates now.

we practiced him pushing me away and shouting. We'll keep practicing every day

Sorry but pushing is not effective. It is neither a surprise or painful and as somebody above said can result in a scrap.