Hi my son went to nursery from being 1 years old and now has started primary school in September last year generally always happy at school and made friends easily.
He's in reception class currently at Primary school, at Easter before going back to school he told me he was fed up of a boy in his class 'punching'. I was a little shocked as he has never talked about an issue like this before so I knew immediately it must be upsetting him. (Not just play fighting) I reported this to school on his first day back and they immediately got in touch to say they would be keeping an eye on the situation and spoke to both of them. The following day something happened again with the boy and my son, the boy hit my son with his hat in the cloak room and told me when he got home. I reported it again to school, they asked us to come in for a chat about this and they assured us they would be dealing with it. We were going in for a meeting in a couple of days from then however the next day his teacher saw the boy hit my son when they were playing with sand and heard he said it hurt. They assured us they intervened and then said they would be speaking to the boys parents. We went to school they explained they would be separating them for a while to see if that brought it to a stop. We were then told on friday my son got pushed over by an older boy who has learning difficulties and he may have banged his head but hes okay, this was again in the playground we assumed it was unconnected. Then yesterday when I picked my son up from after school club and his teacher said that the boy was involved in another situation at school with my son where two older boys were stealing my sons hat off him and throwing it on floor and standing on it and not letting him have it. it went beyond it just being fun and my son was getting upset. The dinner ladies are aware and intervened. But the boy who previously hit him was there when this happened his teacher said. She went on to say that kids mature and they maybe don't understand what's just a joke and when someone's upset over a game. I said yes but I don't want the game to be upsetting my son and getting a reaction out of him. She just said she understood how I felt and they are monitoring situation but I don't know if they should be expecting more from them particularly when this boy seems to be involving older boys in situation now rather then him doing anything himself (as he's already been spoken to about this) any advice appreciated even if its to let the school handle it.