Please can you advise me. My lovely 12 year old daughter really dislikes school. She's sweet and clever, gentle and very artistic. She shouldn't have a problem making friends, you would think. She's easy going and quiet. But , she's finding secondary school really hard. Most of her close fiends from the junior school, go to a different school, so she has had to try to make new ones. The girls she is with in her classes and her form, seem to be quite bitchy. One minute they seem ok, next, they won't talk to her. They aren't talking to her more often than not. She has her lunch alone. I could cry for her. It's horrible. The thing is, the 'nice' girls are all on the other side of the year, so she can't really befriend them easily. Other than talking to the head of year, I don't know what to do. I've encouraged her to try to talk to these girls and ask them why they won't speak to her, but I understand. She doesn't really like them. They've become a clique I think. All copying each other's look. She's not girly, she just loves riding and art.
Girls can be such bitches, can't they? Does anyone have any good ideas on how to deal with this? Thank you.