DS, 8 yrs old and in Y4, started brand new school in new area in Sept, recently expressed concern over the fact that a boy that until that point had been all over him (these are my words not his) was being disruptive in class and DS found it hard to concentrate being chatted to when trying to work. This was followed by an incident where other boy told DS to stop playing with certain people or else he wouldn't be his friend.
Yesterday after school DS was quite upset as other boy had prevented him from joining other classmates' games because DS was friends with 'the enemy'. DS is very gentle and sensitive; situations like this affect him very deeply and at this point DS is a bit scared of other boy.
I emailed DS's teacher to make her aware of situation. Today teacher did a lesson on being kind to one another. It was a general thing but directly related to my email.
However DS came home today again very upset saying that other boy had been bothering him again.
During the lessons where they were sitting on same table (all of them apart from one), other boy kept calling DS an idiot during the time teacher was talking to the class. Teacher too far to hear. DS says that other boy called him an idiot at least 20 times in each lesson.
Other boy also threaten to punch DS if 'he didn't stop it'. When I asked DS stop what he just said, nothing, just being there or trying to join a game.
Again other boy prevented DS from joining games with other schoolmates telling him to 'go away'.
I have never had to deal with anything like this before. Obviously I feel that the teachers approach hadn't worked at all. What next?