I had DS's (age 8, year 3) parent evening last night. His teacher said he was doing well and learning at the level he should be but raised concerns that he had become part of a group of year 3 boys that are involved in what she described as "rough play" but basically sounds like boisterous games sometimes leading to fighting at break/lunchtimes.
I had actually been planning to raise the issue anyway as DS had told me about two recent incidents. The first was that DS and a couple of friends had had to talk to the head teacher in a witness capacity after two other boys, X and Y had had a fight. The second was that X had actually been suspended from school (temporary exclusion?) after lashing out at DS and Y (X also then shouted at the teachers and has a long history of behaviour problems so the incident with DS and the other boy was probably the final straw leading to the suspension rather than the sole cause iykwim).
Anyway DS's teacher asked me/DH to talk to DS and give him a warning about not getting involved in this situation. We did, saying we were sorry to hear about it and that he should find other friends to play with if this rough stuff started happening. I don't feel like we got though though. He basically says he's there but isn't the one fighting so doesn't see what the problem is.
Is there anything else I could do? Given that this is happening at school in school time?