My eldest daughter has asked me to ask all you lovely grans for your advice. Her 9 year old daughter, my lovely granddaughter, is having a tough time at school.
There is a girl in her class who totally blanks my DGD and encourages the other girls to do the same. She won't let her play with them and at times totally isolates my DGD.
A little more information. My DGD has just gone into year 5 and the three classes from year 4 have been mixed so she is only with a few girls from her previous class and this other girl is one of them.
The parents of this girl have recently split up and my daughter feels that she is taking out some of her anguish on my DGD. My DGD gets very sad but still enjoys school and is doing well. My DGD has also said she doesn't want my daughter to say anything to her teacher as she feels that may have repercussions.
This happened last year as well but my DGD had more friends around her then.
We are trying not to call this bullying but I would welcome your comments.
I've got another 'keen'... Ouch!