My child is in Y1 at a local primary school. Academically he is getting on ok, but I feel socially he doesn't have a strong friendship group like he did at Nursery.
There is one other child who he is close but this relationship can sometimes be dysfunctional (other child tries to control/manipulate mine) so I have taught him techniques to deal with this. The other boys in his class are very boisterous and my son has no interest in being part of their group because they are unkind. He sometimes plays with the girls on occasion. He tells me that he sometimes spends lunchtime/breaks playing by himself, which breaks my heart. He is a gentle boy at heart, maybe a bit emotionally immature for his age.
Should I be considering moving him to a different school in the area, maybe a larger school with more children so he can find some like-minded souls?
There are plenty of other options with spaces it would just mean a bit further to walk each morning. Unfortunately, his nursery friends are in a different year group to him, so even if we moved to one of their schools, they wouldn't be in the same class, so he would be starting from scratch again making friends in his year group.