For sports day each class splits into random teams who practice together and then vote for which member they want to compete in each activity. Everyone in the team gets a prize if they win so you vote for the person most likely to. For one race another boy (B) said he thinks he should do it but when they practised dd was faster, all his friends voted for him anyway but dd got the most votes. DD is already doing another activity which no one else in her team wanted to do it and she has been picked to do this race for the last 4 years. B and his friends were really angry that dd was picked and have been really nasty to her since. Lots of saying she was cheating, 'but shes going to run like a girl/girls can't run', they all pointed and laughed at her legs saying they were too skinny for her to be able to run fast. When practising B grabbed both of dds plaits from behind and pulled her to the ground, he immediately started apologising and saying it was an accident (it clearly wasn't) so he was just told to sit out for the rest of the lesson.
Also since then B has just generally been a lot more bother in class so more stress for the teacher, constantly complain that its not fair he didn't get to do a game, He told dd that his mum was going to come in a complain, I don't know if she has but the teacher told dd today that its up to her what she decides but she wants to her to go home tonight and think about if she thinks it fair Or if she should give the boy a chance! DD doesn't want to let him do it but feels the teacher basically just told her she should (it sounds like that to me too).