Just wondering if anyone has any experience of this and what I can do to help, if anything.
My 7 year old son is in Year 2 at school. He's always been pretty bright and really engaged in learning new things, especially anything science related, and up until the last couple of months he has loved going to school.
However recently he has been complaining that school is boring and that he doesn't want to go. He is quite hard work in the mornings and it's often a struggle to get him up and dressed because he says he doesn't want to go.
I've spoken to the teacher and she said she would keep an eye on him. Pretty sure it's not friendship related because he's pretty popular with a large group of boys and when asked if anyone has upset him he's quite clear that no one has.
His teacher says that he's very capable but refuses to show it (pretty sure that is teacher speak for lazy?) and I'm just wondering if there is anything I can do to help him feel more positive at school and want to engage more. It's a total change from last year when he always did really well. We get half termly updates with a sort of traffic light system for things like effort and he used to get all green but has recently had yellow.
It's just such a change for him and I'm at a loss over what to do, if anything.