DD's school have said they can bring in colouring books word searches etc to sit and do quietly in the shade at lunchtime if they want to, so i bought DD(8) a colouring book, and put her name on with a sticky label, she came home today and in her bag is her colouring book but with her name scribbled out and another child's, lets call her A written above it, A is in the same class but not one of DD's friends.
I spoke to DD and she says A tried taking her book at break but DD told the teacher, who looked at it and said no, that is clearly DD's name and made A apologise and give it back and talked to her about not taking other peoples things, DD put her book in the box (where they are supposed to be kept). At lunchtime DD couldn't find her book, a year 6 helped her look and found it in the cloakroom with her name scribbled out and A's name written above.
A has previously crossed out year 3 on DD's lunch box and written year 1, DD also tells me that A takes her homework out her bag and hides her PE kit and that A isn't allowed to sit with DD at lunch anymore as the staff got fed up of telling her off for taking food out of DD's lunchbox, her mum has returned quite a few bits she's found in A's bag (although we had thought they got there by accident, their bags are next to each other) and at the school fair she took one of DD's sweets, but i had put that down to a bit of greediness rather than anything serious.
I'm not worried about the book itself by the way, it's a poundland one deliberately because DD is always losing things at school (although I'm starting to wonder about how much of it she is actually losing) but DD hadn't told me about most of this until I asked about the book.