Present Perfect and Reported Speech

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Dixie
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Firstly, your sentences are not correct.

You should say:

1. He has told me he will go to the pool
2. He had told me he would go to school.

In reported speech we would say:

1. I have been told he will go to the pool.
2. I had been told he would go to the pool.
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Confirmed.
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