A father has decided to pull his daughter from a primary school after she was repeatedly bullied by her classmates and he claims the school did not prevent this from happening.

Mark Hanson, 41, of Lullington Garth, in Borehamwood, has been fighting with Summerswood Primary School since last July after his daughter Georgia was experiencing severe bullying.

His 11-year-old daughter has been given threatening notes, verbally abused, cyber bullied and chased in the playground. She was also knocked to the floor and kicked in the head but Mr Hanson believes the school does not have an anti-bullying system in place.

He said: "When she was kicked in the head we got the police involved and had a meeting with the head teacher Sarah Kneller. The police advised her that she should use their Community Support Team who run free workshops with kids about bullying. But she walked out within 30 to 40 minutes into the meeting.

"The school is going down hill. My wife and I spent last summer holidays getting our daughter back to her old self after she started to suffer with anxiety issues. She tried to speak to her but she had been scared to tell us it was happening again.

"The truth came out via an email from her class teacher saying she was being bullied again. It said that this had been going on for a number of weeks and we were not told."

Mr Hanson and his wife have tried to get to the bottom of what is happening and tried to have multiple meetings with their daughter's teacher and the head teacher Miss Kneller but she did not turn up.

Now the parents have taken their daughter out of the school last week and Mr Hanson claims they still have had no communication from Miss Kneller despite telling the school Georgia will not be returning to Summerswood.

He said: "I think this is shocking behaviour and shows yet again her lack of care and commitment for a child in her care.

"The girls in her class have started a thing called "Georgia Touch". This involved the majority of girls in her class having to avoid her and if they were unfortunate enough to touch her or anything she owned or had touched they would have to wash their hands.

"This bullying went on for a number of weeks. One of the girls who watched how upset Georgia was, finally had enough and told Miss Kneller what was going on.

"Despite Miss Kneller's promises to inform us of any new incidents involving Georgia we were not informed and even more worryingly her teacher was not even informed.

"I find this absolutely horrifying. So why were we not told? This bullying went on for weeks and according to government guidelines and the behaviour policy we should have been informed, the school has failed yet again in protecting my daughter."

Mr Hansen said when his daughter was being bullied last year the solution to stop was to send them out into the playground at break time together to try and get along.

However now his daughter has been removed from the school due to the lack of care she was getting at Summerswood. Mr Hanson is also in the process of removing his nine-year-old son as well.

Miss Kneller said: “The school prides itself on providing a safe and happy environment in which the children can reach their full potential.

"We treat all reports of bullying very seriously and investigate allegations as they arise to ascertain the facts. It would be inappropriate to comment further at this time.”