Letters

5th of June 2009, 11:38am

From: Angel Garden

Subject: bullying

Date: 5 June 2009 11:38:45 am GMT+12:00

To: Mark Thornton

Mark

The matter is that today [R] was threatened with an axe by [...] who pushed her backwards into a post, she sustaining several knocks.  [R] told the teacher and he exhorted everyone to get along apparently.  Meanwhile [R] having fallen down a bank, she climbed back up and when she got to the top [...] pushed her hard to she fell back down.  [R] did not tell the teacher this time.  She said that she knew nothing would happen.

Tomorrow I will be at school to look at the places where these things occurred, to find out the distance away from an adult the children were when this boy, who was the reason we kept her out of school on Tuesday, and went in and guarded her on Wednesday, was able to be alone with her to threaten her with the axe.

Also we will be looking at how steep the bank was that [...] pushed her down.  Apparently he also pushed [...] down, who didn't tell either.  [R] said that there was potentially a long way to fall, we will verify that in the morning.

Regarding the incident of [...] accusing [R] of stealing, he told [R] that he had told the staff that [R] had 'pissed him off'.  Apparently he said that [R] wouldn't let him into their hut.  [R] said that prior to that he had not let her into the hut he was building, but I don't believe he told that bit.

I left a message on a number that had your name next to it and I acknowledge that I was fairly angry when I left the message.  It said that I have lost my patience.

I look forward to hearing from you.

angel

ps [R] still wants to come to school for handwork tomorrow, which she does with year 3.  We will bring her in for this lesson tomorrow.  We will also be around at lunch time so she doesn't miss out on the soup.