I'm worried about my daughter. She's 10 soon to be 11. It's the first week back to school after half term for her. She's been very tired - went into school late the first two days and then missed today. She's sleeping a lot and said that she feels useless. There has been a massive growth spurt for her - she's grown about 4 inches since the start of the year. She said she feels like she doesn't have any friends at school. People keep accusing her of staring at them and exclude her from their games. I've told the school, we've encountered problems like this before - her attendance is awful. As the school ring us every day - I have to find a reason for her being off. She usually claims to be ill to begin with, or to have some kind of pain, but when I tell her she's got to go to school unless she has a temperature (or vomiting/ diarrhoea) she usually starts to complain about the other kids at school. I don't know how much truth there is to it because the issues have persisted for over a year, and I get the feeling she just doesn't want to go to school every single day. I've asked her if she could move to another school or do home schooling instead, but she wants to persist in going to the same school and frankly, her mood is so awful sometimes that I don't think I would like to try and school her myself. I feel stuck here.