My Ds is 6 and in yr1. He started off in reception very well and seemingly took to school fantastically. then when he started yr1 his behaviour seemed to change in class.He is the eldest in class and his abilities are at the top end but sometimes his behaviour lets him down. From what i can work out from the teacher its silliness not necassarily naughtiness when he's allowed a bit of free play,i.e running around and being generally loud and maybe disruptive for the other kids in class?? They have golden points and golden time to encourage good work and behaviour, he always seems to lose out though as he does something to lose it. this is having a negative effect on him as now he just thinks he's rubbish at everything and can't be bothered. He was going to get an award for excellent work but he had an incident and it was taken away from him. I feel like he should have been allowed to have the award, maybe not in front of the school assembly but feel sad for him to have worked so hard and then because he was silly it was taken off him, especially as his teacher is aware that he feels like this.
This seeemed to have started before christmas when we told him his daddy was gpoing to be living in Scotland for 2 years and i am having a baby in 5 weeks, so a lot of things for him to take in i know.
I don't want him to be let off just because of these changes but on the other hand i do think he needs a little leeway. What do you guy think?? What else can i do to help him realise he needs to behave at school??
Thanks for any advice 