Waiting for rest of class

[Perimenopausal42]

My DS7 in year 3 has started saying he's finished his class work and is waiting for others.

He's mentioned he's reading his book which is fine but the other day he said he was doing his steps ( making hit watch count my moving his arm)

Today I asked him to make a note of how long he's waiting some times it was a few minutes but in English he waited in 3 different occasions one was almost 10 minutes.

My question is , is this normal, shouldn't they be saying if you've finished that do this?

He's asking me to give him stuff to do in this quiet time.

My DC’s school was fantastic for gifted DC.

We learnt in lockdown how inefficient the school day is.

We found primary school very good at differentiating work for our children although wheel spinning did set in around year 3. We moved them to a private prep which tbh was not as good at differentiating the work and this led to behavioural issues (being told off for reading books! wandering around etc.)

Teachers will tell you the kid is not getting 100% and therefore can't go any faster etc..

Yes I get what you're saying, it doesn't really matter what's actually going on though and not much point speculating. An adult just needs to go and find out and give appropriate support whatever that is.

I remember often finishing first and the teacher would give me some colouring in to do. I did not think I was learning anything from this but did it anyway.
Your child is one of a class of perhaps about 30? Unfortunately there will be times when the teacher has to attend to one of the other 29.
It's a hard job being a teacher!