Moving schools because of bullying

[Mademoiselle896]

My daughter has been bullied since February, then it was the first time she mentioned this to me, 3 boys from her year are hitting her, throwing bottles of water at her, calling her names, she has never had a strong friendship since she went to high school, friendships she made just crashed as other girls don’t like things she likes and vice versa, but this was not massive issue, she started to be anxious and trying to refuse to go to school since boys started to bully her, at the beginning I thought it’s nothing serious however I have noticed how much she hated to go to school in the morning, I forced her to do so, in the meantime I have emailed school 2 times, prior to this I rang school 3 times, no response at all, then I decided to email year tutor, he responded very quickly saying he will pass this onto head of year and they will get this sorted, nothing has been done as my daughter was still complaining that she is being chased on break time, hit and water thrown at her, last incident happened day before last day of term, emailed school again.
Half term started and on Wednesday one of those boys who bullies my daughter at school said lies about my daughter on school chat, it was an awful thing that she is a racist and she said that Islamics are as holes, she never said so, now everyone is against her and she said she will not come back to this school under any circumstances, she couldn’t eat and sleep for 2 days
I would like to move her to different school however I am worried that there won’t be any places, she refuses to go to current school and I do understand but how long will we wait for place at other school? Is there anything LA can help with? She is desperate to go to other school, she doesn’t want to stay home with no school, any advise? What should I do? I am really worried about her and her education and wellbeing, she is in Year 8

Call your Local Authority Schools Admissions Dept and ask which schools that you (she) could reasonably get to have spaces in her Year group. Then make appointments ASAP to view with her any that have space.

Talk to her current school to ask them if they can make work available for her to do at home while she awaits a school place elsewhere.

With our daughter (who luckily hasn't had any bullying issues but who does have some quirky interests), we've got her into clubs outside of school so she's no so reliant on her small number of school friends. It means if it goes pear-shaped at school, she'll still have a friend or two outside of that.

I moved my year 8 son to a new school recently due to bullying. I have not regretted it for a second. You need to ring your LA school admissions and see which schools have spaces.

MrsTWH how your sons previous school react? Did they try to stop you from moving? Did they sign the application with no issues to new school as I believe they need to sign one?
How long did it last until he was moved to new school?

Its a good time to move. I tried to move later in school and was told by my prospective school that they would have to put me back a year due to subject differences.

Your poor dd. All I had was mean names and comments. What is that school like? Why do so many of them put their heads on the sand rather than helping bullied children?