In case any of you saw my other thread we were hoping to move to the Wirral,but have since been offered a house we made a ludicrious offer on last year and the owners are waiting for us to sell, so we're staying here now.
Anyhow - wwyd? I need impartial advice.
Ds1 is at primary, yr 2.
In February we brought up with his teacher that ds was being bullied, she was surprised that there was bullying happening at all, despite us being aware that others had raised the matter, all to do with the same particular children.
Anyhow fast forward to now and we had a meeting with the head, because the issue has not been resolved and is getting worse. Again we know that other parents have spoken t the teacher as recently as last week, again. The head had no idea that bullying was happening at all and promised action would be taken. Ds1 is now on a watch list.
We also raised the issue of ds1 having no faith in teaching or lunchtime staff because they always dismiss him when he reports issues of bullying, again I know that this has also been brought up by other parents. The staff also only take into account one side of the story, the easiest story and seemingly can't be bothered getting to the bottom of any issues.
Furthermore ds1 has had 7 teachers in 3 years and we do not know who his teacher will be from September, apparently neither does the school. I am growing more and more concerned that the only person in charge if the class who knows him is the TA who has been the only consistent member of staff. His teacher at parents evening seemed to have no idea who he was.
Also, sorry I'm going on, they are doing SATS (which I will not pressure him over) and poor ds has been in bits because the last two weeks they have been doing practice paper after practice paper, but when we raised the fact we were promised that no pressure would be out on the children we were told that its ds putting too much pressure on himself. Never mind that if they haven't got all the questions correct and completed on the practice paper they've not been allowed out to play!
Would you let school have the chance to correct the problems or would you be looking at other schools? I know bullying occurs, but I feel that if there were consistency in staff and proper reporting procedures were in place it would be better dealt with. I'm also worried that staff will leave again and yet another member of staff will change. I'm also concerned that as ds goes into the next year they go into the big playground and there are more members of the bullies family!
Sorry for rambling, but I needed to offload.