Normal for year 3?

[Strawberryorangejuice]

My son I having a tough time at school. He is year 3 and started at a junior school in September. How much involvement would you expect a school to have in helping children make friends, where children come from a variety of different schools, so many didn't know each other before?

Would you expect teachers to notice and step in if a child is eating lunch on their own or playing on their own (not every day but on some days - I.e. they have one friend and that friend is off)

At a school lunchtime club would you expect a teacher to notice a child has no one to play with and do something to make sure they were included? It's a board game type club.

I am trying to work out if my expectations are off.

I’d talk to the school. I’ve had parents tell me their child was sat alone on the buddy bench for the duration of play etc and it’s not accurate. Talk to them and see what’s happening.

Teachers won't notice at lunchtime usually because in most primary schools it's a mixture of midday assistants and TAs that supervise lunchtime.

They are generally very busy and if your child is usually with his friend but on his own when his friend is off they may not notice. They do usually spot the children who are always in their own.

I'd expect a teacher to make sure your child was included at a club,

Thank you. It's really helpful to get responses as you start to wonder if you are under reacting or over reacting to things.

They know he struggles with making friends. I've asked about support with this before. He still sticks with his two closest friends from infants and as lovely as it is that he has these friendships, it is so isolating and i feel he needs support to make more. Infants felt like they knew what was going on in the class/between the children in the class. Juniors feels so different.