Earlier this week DD's teacher asked for a word after school and told me that DD who is 6's behaviour has been appalling (not her words). It covers the whole spectrum, not sitting on the carpet, not listening, disrupting others, answering back and cheeky attitude to staff, verbally and physically nasty to her friends and not changing or amending any of this behaviour when spoken to by staff.
It doesn't come as a complete surprise because she is exhibiting a lot of this behaviour at home too but on previous occasions when her behaviour has been poor at home its been fine at school.
We've had a long chat and a few tears at home, we've talked about and listed what good looks like, and have done a behaviour chart, with a promise of an unspecified reward at the end if it's all ticks.
Its seems that she's got too big for her boots, to a lesser extent this happened late in her reception year (she's now Y1) and her teacher then said it was not uncommon towards the end of a school year that they get a bit restless but surely its too early for that. She is G&T listed as her reading is exceptional but I do not want to brandish that as an excuse as the school are good at recognising this, she is in a mixed Y1 & Y2 class and works often with Y2s. She is also VERY close friends with a little girl who also behaves this way - I cannot come up with a way to separate them as it is such a small school although this child does not often work in the same groups as my DD.
She has not improved much in the past few days, is it G&T related? She doesn't say that she's bored but I wonder if she's able to coast a bit. Has anyone else been through this at this time of year?