We moved to France in July and decided to put our 4 year old into local french school. He has been attending playgroup and nursery in the UK, without any reports of bad behaviour before. However, upon starting local school here (he speaks only a very few words of french) he returned home saying that bigger boys had hit him and one day returned with broken glasses which he said had been done by another boy in his class.
We have spoken to the teacher and their response is 'it's just school'. He has been learning more french and we thought he was settling in ok since the above incidents
However, during this half term, we were invited to another child's house to play. My son was very naughty, boistererous and loud and I eventually had to bring him home. I then invited them to play at our house in the hope that we could demonstrate that this was an isolated incident. However, I received a phone call the night before to say that their little boy didn't want to come and play with our son as he had hit their little boy at school and caused a big bruise.
They explained that they appreciate that our son has had a lot to content with ( new school, house, country, language etc) and we are all trying to make concessions for this. However, I am really unsure how to deal with this behaviour change.
We know we need to give it some more time but I wonder whether we should we remove him from the school at Xmas if there is no improvement and put him into an English international school if he's really not coping.
The teachers are very understanding and advise us if he is unruly etc and don't seem overly concerned at the moment. I am concerned this change may be proving too much and I don't want our son to become known as a bully who can only communicate physically. All I really wanted, was for him and us to integrate into the local community.
I really don't know what to do and wondered if anyone has had a similar situation or if anyone could give some advise