High school pupil pushed & tripped up primary pupil

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Our primary and secondary school is all one school (which I am now regretting sending mine to!).

Usually secondary and primary are taught in separate buildings but they share one school office / gym / assembly hall etc.

My 8 year old was coming back from PE today and was tripped and pushed by an older high school age kid. he’s badly scraped his arm and had to go to welfare, plus all the upset/shock of it.

My DS said he was rushing back to class through the playground where older boy was standing in a group. Older boy dickhead shouted “Run” and stuck out his foot. While at the same time, putting his hand on my DS shoulder and pushing him to the ground.

I have emailed the school as soon as I heard, but there are no witnesses so I’m not sure what they can do. Do schools have CCTV? I’m raging. WWYD, any advice on what to say to the school? I’m not sure why they weren’t supervised! I think my son was at the back of the group trying to catch up.

YABU - leave it alone

YANBU - email the school and take it further

DS needs to smash him in the mouth with his water bottle asap

Email school and ask them to investigate how it occured as there shouldn't be instances of the two schools being in the same space at the same time.

My DC attend a school like that where the two schools share one premises but it's all set up so that the high school can't get into the same areas as the middle school and visa versa. In shared areas, staff have to swipe in/out and it won't allow a key card from the other school to access that area if someone from the other school is already in there. Dinner Hall has staff supervising the door and staggered lunches to ensure the schools don't mix. When children/young people need to cross an area where the other school might be, e.g., crossing the car park to get to the sports field or going to the main office for whatever reason, then they're accompanied by a member of staff so that they're supervised.