How to help child (6yo) bounce back after bullying

[Bullying]

I've posted her last week about DD (y1) being bullied by another girl at school (name calling, pushing, nudging, hair pulling, spreading gossip, all happened over a period of 3 months).

The school sort of dealt with it last Mon, spoke to the girl who admitted 'being unkind', however the school are doing nothing to keep this girl away, in fact some of the teachers are encouraging them to be friends. This girl, although stopped some of the abuse, still joins in with DD, pushes her back into her game if DD refuses to do something, tries to get some girls that DD plays with away from DD and so on, disrupts her during lessons.

DD is an emotional wreck and from a bubbly, happy child who adored her school, she cries every morning and refuses to go to school. We are devastated to see her that way.

What can we do to make her bounce back to her old, confident self? The school are giving her some emotional support but she still feels under threat from this girl. We've read a book called My Secret Bully which describes her situation to a certain extent, we talk every night about the way she feels but it doesn't seem to help much. She says she feels like she on a 'different planet' now, everybody is on Earth but she lives on Worry planet.

This is a private, all girls school.

Enrol her in a martial arts class which will increase confidence and enable her to defend herself.

Personally I'd tell her to plant this girl one as that usually puts bullies in their place.

We had this . Go back to school. They need to do more.
They also need to suggest some friendships for DD with similar like- minded kinder children and I would encourage play dates with these kids at home.
Encourage hobbies and out of school friendships
Tell DD not to play with this girl as clearly she is toxic . There is no merit to pursuing the friendship.

Tell DD that she is a super little girl to bolster her confidence.

I’m pleased to say that our situation with DS came good and 12 months later he was a happy confident child again.

School need to do more. Bully needs a proper bollocking. Good luck x

Thank you all.

We did role playing at home and I do encourage her to push back, I don't care what the school says. I told her just that, bullies need to be scared, it's the only way they'll stop. She feels confident for a bit then she crumbles again.

I wrote to the school this morning asking for adult intervention into keeping them apart, I've no heard back yet.

She's had playdates over the weekend, we are distracting her with fun stuff, but it doesn't seem to help much at the moment 😔.