How regular is violence by children at Primary school?

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If you have children in year 5 & 6? One child in particular physically assaulting others on a daily basis leaving injuries? I am trying to see if this is the general norm to be honest. No action by school and we are not even told about it. Unfortunately not just my child.

Depends on the child, the school and measures in place. I’d expect the school to be very much “on the case”.

No, i wouldn't have thought that's the norm at all.

I don't think that's normal.

None in my DCs class of 22

Children do kick /hit/ ect, but most schools do keep on top of it. Have you spoken to the school. Has your child said anything to a teacher? Does the child have issues. ?

My DD is in year 5 it would be extremely notable if anyone deliberately hurt someone else in class. It doesn’t really happen in her class at all.

Thank you. As I suspected....

It is common to have one, two or several very 'high profile' children such as this.
The school will be well aware of the problems that he/ she / them are posing and will be at their wits end.

We have had 2, both transfers from another school (expelled). Yr 5 horrific, every day was a problem, Yr 6 not so bad but I'm always hearing about fights or general nastiness. The parents don't seem bothered, the school have lots of plans in place. I guess it depends on luck.

Very common (daily, serious targeted at range of children by same 1-2 classmates) continually from YR - Y2 in naice village school. Probably still is but we moved our DC.

In areas with a lot of social and economic difficulties these things may be more common.

Speaking as a TA, in our school absolutely the norm all the way through. All incidents are dealt with, there are always consequences even for the children with SEN, that does not prevent it happening.
The parents of the victims are not always informed and are certainly not aware of what consequences are given.

Op you need to ask the school head what their anti bullying policy is and what they are doing to safeguard affected children. These are trigger words which should get them to act.

Are you referring to play fighting that leads to injuries or bullying? Of course both situations would need intervention but the approach needs to be different. What has your school suggested to stop these injuries before things get worse?

Thank you. I have raised safeguarding concerns with the Head. Nothing has changed.

Not at all normal. My dc is year 5 and this is unheard of and would most certainly be taken v seriously by the school.

As PP stated, it's fairly normal in more deprived areas (such as the one I'm in).

Can be pretty typical in some schools. It can be very dependent on catchment.

This is a very middle class school. No deprivation at all.

In areas with a lot of social and economic difficulties these things may be more common.

Actually I've found the opposite in some ways. I worked at two schools geographically very close. One leafy village school, on military/council house intake... the behaviour at the village school was so much worse. The children from the less advantaged backgrounds would respond so much better to praise and encouragement whereas at the village school many of the children had a very entitled attitude and weren't worried about getting into trouble at all.

There will always be exceptions and both schools had children who could lash out, though I do feel there were more incidents of low level pushing, pulling, hitting, biting etc at the village school.

You wouldn't necessarily know if any action was taken though.

Depends on the context.

Rough play that gets out of hand, very common. I don't know why year 5 and 6 kids find it so funny to pull each other around and push each other over, rugby tackle etc but no matter how much you try to stop it they are determined to carry on.

Lashing out because they are hormonal little balls of anger happens ocassionally but should be dealt with quickly and parents informed and its unusual for it to be a regular thing unless there's other issues.

Bullying/unprovoked attacks not common at all.

Victims parents should be notified of injuries but you don't tell them what consequences were given, just that it has been dealt with. If its a regular occurrence school should be telling you what they are doing to keep your child safe but not what consequences the other child is facing.

This happens in my niece’s school (very middle class, city, one of the best schools in the country), and in my DD’s small village school. They both have a violent child in the class (Y3 and Y4) who throws chairs, hits etc.

Oh but we aren’t told about it unless your child is directly attacked. Meanwhile the kids are scared of their classmate’s unpredictable behaviour.