My son has recently started a new school. Him and his friends have all moved up from infants together, so he's still with children he knows except they have shuffled the classes around. He's always been bright but also one of those "could do better" kids, even though his achievements without "doing better" at the end of year 2 placed him higher than the majority of his peers. I think I was a bit the same - you don't have to put in much effort to get by absolutely fine. My problem is that you never really get the sense of achievement that other children feel when they've worked for something. Now he's starting mucking about in class. He's never been an angel but he has always been respectful of grown ups and has never wilfully wanted to wind a teacher up or anything remotely like that and all his school reports say that he is a pleasure to have in the classroom etc. But I have had a few comments in the past few weeks since starting juniors from his friends and their mothers to say that he is mucking about. He is also saying to me that he finds the work easy. On top of this he's in a class of 34(!) and so I think the teacher is stretched beyond belief. He's also had some friendship issues from a possessive and jealous friend who has tried every trick in the book to sabotage my son's friendships. So I know he has a lot going on, but even so I do expect as a minimum that at this age he is a good boy in class. He is emotionally very mature and we had a big talk last night about the impact of his misbehaving on the teacher and his class friends etc. I just feel I want to nip it in the bud and wondered if anyone had some good strategies? I'm going to chat to his teacher today to see what she would like us to do xx