Please can anyone advise? My ds is recently 7. He attends a selective independent prep school since year 1. He spend the first year and a bit of school life in a local state school which did have a very good reputation. We had to take him out after 4 terms because his silly disruptive behaviour antagonised the teachers so much that he was constantly in trouble for minor misdemeanours, constantly in the head teachers office and we were constantly being called in. More often than not it was about trivial silliness, never anything major. As a result the staff decided he was a problem and not very bright academically, which we knew wasnt true. Our bad experience with this school was repeated with several other families of bright children who also removed them. (10 children have left out of his intake of 40 in reception) He passed the assessment for the academically selective prep school. The head teacher reassured us that he would be fine and things improved dramatically in that we didnt get the constant negative feedback anymore. He copes fine with the work, but still we get to hear occasionally that he remains silly and distractable in class. School are cool with it, saying he is just immature and he will grow out of it, but it has got to the stage where some parents are banning their boys playing with him, because they perceive him as a distraction. Its a great shame because he loves school and is very sociable and popular, but we see examples of his silliness at swimming lesssons etc, where he constantly messes about and distracts. Everyone says he is just a boy, but we are at our wits end trying to get him to settle down. Please help!