I hope I'm posting in the right place. The situation is not quite in the bullying criteria just yet so any help to avert that would be brilliant.
I have a DS who in year 3 and throughout his school career has had problems making friends and keeping them due to social incapabilities, which are more than likely down to me being, really quite anti-social and preferring my own company than that of others.
I can see the mistakes my son makes when he interacts with others before/after school. He be loud and brash and not take into account others.
A month or two ago my sister mentioned her son, who is in the year above, had intervened for my DS when his only friend had stopped talking to DS because another child in his class had made some remark to him about DS.
Today on the way home my son who usually walks most of the way home with this 'friend' hung back with me and didn't talk to him just rode past him on his scooter so I asked him why he's wasn't talking to ----. He said that he wasn't talking to him, when I asked why he said he didn't know. So I told him if he didn't ask him he'd never know. Anyway by the time we got to the road our house is on they were both talking again.
Later I spoke to my son about what was happening at school and what had happened at playtime for them not to be talking. He said that no one wanted to play with him this morning so he just wandered around the playground and then at lunch he hung with his cousin (they go through fits and starts of getting on)
He also mentioned that there's a boy on his table who is saying mean things to him.
I know that looking at it there doesn't seem to be a big deal here, but it is a reoccurring problem in our life, he just can't seem to make a friend that will stick with him. And I seem to have the same conversations with his class teacher each year. So any help would be good.