we moved 300 miles from up north to the south coast and moved the kids schools obviously.
ds ( now 15) had already sarted 1st year of senior school up north.
when we moved down. he started school and i was worried about him making friends as everyone would have formed their little groups.
the catalyst for my son who was bullied by girls on our street in oldham - he was so not for fighting - was a lad from the school tried to do something nasty to his bike. my son then ended up in a barney and his school cred grew from their.
hopefully it wont come to this for your child, but i hold a firm belief that boys cope with these things better than girls - who tend to suffer more at senior school with more psychological bullying - whereas a lad can join in a game of footy.
my favourite saying is that kids are more resiliant than we give them credit for.
it may be worth speaking to the school and asking about their anti bullying policy and ask how your son can join in after school activities to get him more involved.
things will be fine, its a terribly worrying time though. i never moved schools as a kid but was horribly bullied and feared that and also feared the other end of the spectrum that any of my children will turn into bullies.
must say after the incident happened - we were phoned up by school who said that ds's behaviour that day was unacceptable. we were so astounded that he fought back - we could do nowt else than tell him not to make it a regular occurance but as he didnt start the trouble we were quite proud he stuck up for himself - and told him so
it helped that this lad was a year above him too!