Does anyone have any words of advice for helping a 10yo mentally recover from being bullied at school please?
As soon as we found out what was going on - verbal bullying - we contacted the school and it was dealt with immediately and effectively (the children involved have stopped).
DS(10) is a sensitive soul and this has hit him like a ton of bricks. All of his confidence and resilience has pretty much gone, he hates going to school and his emotional state is all over the place - think tantrums and screaming over the smallest thing. He can go for days when he is OK and then it starts again. He cries a lot and he is so negative about himself. The real kicker as well is that his (former) best friend dropped him a while ago and is now good friends with the bullies (but he wasn’t one of the ones who bullied him).
He is terrified that the bullying will start again, particularly when he moves to y6 and has a new teacher who he is convinced won’t know about the situation, nor will handle it as well as his current teacher. The teacher and Senco have agreed that they need to be careful what class he is put in for y6 (3-form entry) to ensure the bullies are not with him.
The school have him on a waiting list for a counselling service that visit the school, he is seeing a nurture TA each week for 20-30 mins (but from what he tells me he clams up and doesn’t tell her how he’s really feeling), and we are waiting for a local child counsellor to contact us next week when she is back from holiday who is highly recommended.
So, what can we do in the meantime to help support him? All the reassurance and love we can provide isn’t enough 😢.