DD has always been prone to tears when told off, but since going back to school after the Easter holidays she's gotten very bad. AFAIK it wasn't happening at school prior, but I've been called in twice by the teacher about this happening now. Her behaviour has gone downhill too - getting up and wandering off in the middle of lessons, lots of mucking about, etc - and I know her teacher isn't the shouty kind but is relatively stern. She also cannot seem to sit still.
This is reflected in her behaviour at home too. If she's told off its not just tears we get but often screaming, banging/hitting things, etc. We do tend to give warnings but when we follow through with consequences she will cry at best or scream/hit at worse. She's constantly twitching her feet or jumping about on the spot too.
She isn't one for talking about things directly, though will chew your ear off about anything else, so school and us are struggling to get to the bottom of it.
Two examples of massive fits she's had are over not being able to wear a summer dress when it was cold, despite explaining that she was freezing in it the day before that was warmer and being asked to look in a drawer for something she had lost.
We're getting quite frustrated, especially when she's doing this out in public. Is this a normal phase? The only thing I can think that may have triggered anything is that she's due to sit KS1 SATS soon, so there's possibly some anxiety there, but everything else is the same as it ever was.