What will happen if this carries on? He's in year one now and it happened several times in reception - sometimes biting, sometimes hitting or stone throwing. Always unacceptable aggression. It always has a reason behind it, if a spurious one - he was sitting in my place, or he wouldn't let me hold the rope. It's happened three or four times this year.
The teachers come across as helpful and lovely. He's got good friends at school. He attends a "feelings group" at lunchtime. He knows it isn't okay. But he can't seem to control himself in that moment.
Generally he's happy at school and home is happy and peaceful except for normal 5 year old exasperations and his 2 year old assertive attention-stealing sister, which is an issue. Sometimes he is aggressive towards her and vice versa. We respond firmly and immediately to both of them, I think.
I'm really sad about it and not sure how to respond. I feel that we're handling it in all the right ways and being consistent and clear that it is unacceptable. But it keeps happening.
Will they just end up excluding him? I'm so sad that he is hurting his friends and I feel completely out of control and unable to change anything. But scared that this is really serious bad behaviour.