Since starting year three in September last year (same school) my now 8 year old son has stopped wanting to go. He became very withdrawn in the mornings and in the evenings he would have big melt downs, crying screaming and hurting himself and others. We are currently seeking medical support and he has special educational needs which the school have referred us for (only last week). Since October we have been pursuing a complaint against the teacher that my son said she had hit him several times and it hurt a lot. There were three separate occasions and he can note the date, lesson and body part that was touched. I realise this was a serious allegation and we handled it sensitively when broaching the school, making sure they knew we wanted to resolve things informally and that we knew our son's description was open to interpretation. However they were very defensive, gaslighting my son even saying 'there is no shouting in our school'. My son has been traumatised by the whole experience and daren't speak up now. We followed the schools complaints procedure through to the end but to no avail. Same dead end with LADO. We now have a recording of this teacher not just shouting constantly but BELLOWING and making children cry and kids sit on the floor. Do you think we can play this to the headteacher?