My son has always loved school however he has started to not want to go.
Last term my son started to get upset by a child in his class. 2 weeks before term ended a child started name calling, spreading rumours about my son and then the day before the last day of term, my son was spat at by a child - we will call this child, child "A".
Upon the spitting incident, I emailed the school, told them about the other incidents which had happened (Although my son had told me about them and told me he had told teacher) and asked them what they had done about the incident as my son told me all child "A" had happen to them was miss 5 mins break. At the time they "looked in to my sons incident" however they came back to me and basically said there was no evidence as no one had seen and there was nothing they could do. This was the response by my sons class teacher and the head teacher. Due to us being in a pandemic I was disgusted with their response but felt like I could do little more. When I spoke to the teacher at the time she tried to say my son had also not reported any incidents which had happened however he had told teachers - gave me the name of these teachers so I know this was false.
Child "A" is well known to be horrible to many of his class mates. Last term he threw someones dinner on the floor but that was an "accident". This term, a mum has told me her child is being targeted by the same child, she has told the school but again says nothing is being done. Another parent has told me that in a previous school child "A" was taken out of class due to his disruptive behaviour and nastiness towards others.
Today my son has once again come home to tell me child "A" has pushed him, stamped on his foot and told him that "he didn't want him in his life". Child "A" also did this to someone else and also hurt someone else this afternoon which required them having to seek medical assistance. My son said it was dealt with, with child "A" missing 5 mins break tomorrow.
I have emailed the school and again have asked what are they doing about the situation due to them saying they were watching the situation. I find it very poor that within 10 days of me speaking to the teacher, my child has been hurt again.
I feel let down by the school and expect for nothing to happen again due to their beliefs that this child will learn from missing 5 mins of their break - which he misses most days.
I am at a loss of what to do. Is it the governors that I go to next? Any help would be appreciated please.