A mother of four whose teenage daughter was allegedly punched and kicked in a schoolyard fight wants harsher punishments for attackers and believes teachers need to take more control.

Jodie Ninyette claims playground violence has been a long-running problem at Swan View Senior High School, where her 13-year-old daughter was allegedly attacked on Friday.

“I’m angry, frustrated and I am frightened for my kids’ safety — all the kids, not just my own kids but everybody’s kids,” she said.

“It happens that often up at the school — these fights — I feel something has to be done to protect our kids.

“A lot of friends have gone to the school and they’re ... pulling their children out and sending them to different schools to try to get them away from this environment.”

Mrs Ninyette said her daughter Vanessa, who is in Year 8, was left with a black left eye and a swollen, bruised forehead after the incident on Friday.

“It could have been a lot worse, thank God it wasn’t,” she said.

Education Department schools deputy director-general Stephen Baxter confirmed the student who instigated the incident had been suspended.

“School staff take incidents of violence very seriously and there are strong consequences for any students who choose to act aggressively to others, including considering exclusion from a school permanently,” he said.

Mrs Ninyette said she had previously had a meeting with the department about her concerns over the safety of one of her other children at the school but it seemed to “go nowhere”.

“Something needs to be changed in the system where the teachers have got more control over the students and the punishment needs to be harsher for these kids that are doing this,” she said.

“I think it should go back to the old times of three suspensions, a fourth time — expelled. Parents need to get together as a community and do something, I don’t know what.”

The family acknowledged school staff have talked to students at assemblies about not being violent.

The Education Department said yesterday that staff at the school did the best job they could to “maintain a safe and orderly environment to provide a good education to all children and take action when needed”.