My daughter is the youngest in her year. This term she's said a few times that her friends are being 'rude' to her, which seems to be about excluding her from their games etc. We've talked about trying to find other people to play with (it's a 3 class intake - big school), ignoring them, trying to find one person out of the group to play with etc. and she's adamant it won't help. She has mentioned other people getting left out as well, but we talked again tonight and she said that it was just her, that the other children said she was the youngest and was a baby and they wouldn't play with her. She said she had no one to play with at playtime, and that all the games she thought of needed two people. She asked if I could come round at playtime so she could talk to me through the fence
. She's also asked to move to another school, which I don't think she fully understands.
I wrote a note just before half term to her teacher saying she was unhappy and could she talk to the teacher about it. I know she didn't give it in straight away, but she says now that she has given it in and no one came to talk to her about it. I don't know whether that's really the case or not. I am going to write another note saying the same thing. I just don't know what to do or how to gauge how serious this is. DD does embellish her stories, so I think some of it must be a bit of creative license. And she doesn't seem upset when she's talking about it. Any advice? I feel really powerless with this - the school is not good at communication and tends to keep parents at arms' length. DD has said these sorts of things on and off since she started there, although this time it's more sustained, and whenever we've spoken to the teachers before they've said 'oh no, she's always playing with someone.'