Hi, been lurking on here for months but something happened today to make me reveal myself
Our 5-year old Reception son was set upon by a 7 year-old autistic girl in the playground this afternoon completely out of the blue, apparently she was bashing his head into a wall/fence (the adults didn't see so the story has been relayed by his friends, he finds it difficult to communicate at the best of times - something in the autism spectrum which we haven't yet pinned down). To their credit his classmates 'saved' him and looked after him, the school rang me straight away and I picked him up early, I found him sitting on the floor with the rest of his classmates and teacher and they were all having a really kind chat about what happened, while he just sat there with the tears quietly streaming down his face On the positive side, it was lovely to see how his friends seem to care and are so protective of him, and were all very keen to tell me how they'd looked after him The school have since phoned, they're so sorry, they're saying and doing all the right things and they'll ensure he's not in contact with her again without adult supervision. The child immediately admitted what she'd done and, physically, there isn't a mark on him. However he seems so down about the whole thing, kept crying this afternoon and saying 'the girl pushed me into the gate' and sobbing, I've never ever seen him so upset before, he seems utterly bewildered by the incident and I feel so helpless, it's heartbreaking. We'd made so much progress at the school, he was really starting to come out of his shell and get comfortable there and this feels like it has the potential to set us back months. Yet the school has been so fantastic and supportive of us from day one, and how can you be angry and blame another child whose needs are so much greater than those of your own child? So I guess I'm just looking for a bit of tlc or something...