How much do secondary schools know about behaviour in primary?

[christywhisty]

If a child was badly behaved in primary would that information be passed onto the secondary school.

Ds is having problems on the way home from school from a boy who was in his class a primary. From what I can gather he is behaving well in school, but was a little sod at primary, but had the excuse he was bright but bored.
He seems to be storing it all up for DS on the train on the way home. DS was not perfect but was very well behaved and hardly ever got into trouble.
This boy is good at playing the victim and making out it is everybody elses fault. It has got to the point where I have to go to the school as ds came home with a black eye last night. Would they know about this other boys previous reputation?

We are told if the primary school knows that there is an issue.

It is not uncommon to have advice from primary schools that X should not be in the same class as Y and it is one of the things that we take into account when children are put into their new forms.

But obviously the primary can only pass on such information as they have, and human natures means that some schools are better than others at passing on/acting upon that information.

To a degree schools will only pass on what they consider to be 'serious' information, they wre not going to list every single falling out or spat between classmates.

Sorry if that is too waffly!

Hope tht things get resolved for your son asap

We generally get to know behviour of all kids coming into our school. We also know if feeder schools have a particularly bd year group on the way.......

You can make requests that so and so is not with so nd so, and they are usually honoured WITHIN REASON, so serious stuff is considered which I think yours would come under

We don't tell them what form they are in until they arrive in Spetember to forestall any summer squabbles and fall-outs.... They are usually put into forms using a varity of information including past behaviour, but also ethnicity, ability etc

When I was teaching we used to get given a list of new upils each year with comments from primary, both positive and negative comments covered.

Thanks
There wasn't an issue between the boys before they started secondary, but there were a few accusations about the other boy being a bully and his mum was always having to go in because he was in trouble.

But this boy is sly and will lie and I just hope that the school will know enough about him to realise this.

A few years back I volunteered on reception at DCs school for a few hours a week. They had a big a4 ring bound booklet and each form had a page with every child's photo on and a page with a table with every child's name, siblings, musical instrument, sats, pastoral and academic notes, was very brief, (eg 'Low confidence, sit away from Jane Brown' for pastoral and 'Exceptional maths skills, weaker at English' for academic) Each teacher got a copy of the booklet in September so I imagine if the school know they'd have it somewhere.