DD is 4 and started reception in Sept.
She'd previously been in nursery 3 days a week since she was a year old. She absolutely loved nursery, had lots of friends, loved her 'teachers'.
She started school last year and struggled a bit at first understandably, but seemed to settle in after half term. She was invited to a couple of school friends houses to play and seemed happy.
But something has changed since Xmas, probably since the end of January really.
She started crying before school and claiming she's ill (cue fake coughing...). She says she plays with no one at play time and has no friends. She says certain children push or hit her or make up stories about her and this upsets her.
She's definitely a lot more sullen at home and seems sad. She has been drawing lots of pictures of herself crying or with a sad face. She has 2 imaginary friends that have appeared fairly recently - she "plays" with them a lot at playtimes apparently...
She's not very clear when I ask what's wrong - it has taken me about a week to tease the above information out of her.
She has definitely not her usual self, it's heartbreaking to see really :(
I'm at a lose to understand why she's so lonely at school, because it's so outside my experience of her. She's definitely not a shy quiet child, quite the opposite - she's always been confident and outgoing, noticeably so as other people have always commented on it. She's always played really nicely with her friends outside of school / from nursery and they genuinely like her.
I not sure whether the hitting / making up stories is general crap that goes on at school and is to be expected to some extent. She is very sensitive and takes things to heart.
Soooo it got to the point where it's been going on for over a month now and I feel I need to do something, I'm not really not sure what :(
The teacher is a bit unsympathetic TBH, when she comes in crying you can tell he thinks she's being a nuisance. I'm not sure there is anything he can do WRT friendships.
I haven't spoken to him about this just yet as I don't get chance to speak to him privately at drop off / pick up (I don't want DD to overhear) and I'm at work during the school day.
We have parents evening next week, DH and I are definitely going to ask some serious questions. But realistically what can we expect them to do? What would you do in this situation? DH thinks we should consider moving schools but I think this is a little hasty....
Sorry for the essay, any help would be apprecitated