DS(8) and in y4 has always been well-behaved at school, tries hard, has lots of friends, generally always fine and never caused any problems.
However, during Oct half-term he started misbehaving- he did a club with a friend Mon/Tues and all was fine, then from the Wednesday onwards he turned into a rude, sneering, mimicking, awful child. Almost nothing nice came out of his mouth. He also started hitting me but not his DF sometimes if he didn’t get his own way. He has got a bit better since he went back to school. We have been trying to crack down hard on these behaviours.
I asked the teacher how is his behaviour at school as he’s been challenging at home. Turns out he has started misbehaving there too - talking in class, not focusing on his work, playing a game with another pupil instead of listening/doing work, being silly all the time etc. The PE teacher and playground lunchtime staff have all commented the same apparently, and how it is so out of character for him.
His teacher and his DF and I have all spoken to him about his behaviour, what they expectations are, is anything worrying you etc. All he can say is that he’s upset because some other pupils criticised his school work.
Aside from constantly reiterating good behaviour, talking about feelings etc, what else can we do at home? He is currently banned off all screens for November due to his behaviour and hitting me. I’ve suggested to his teacher that the family worker that the school has talk to him but she has ignored that question in her reply. We are so cross with him and the teacher seems to come across that at home we can wave a magic wand and make him behave at school 😩