how do I help my bored Yr 2 boy

[mumof2girls2boys]

My Yr 2 son is bored at school and as a result has started switching off. We have spoken to his teacher and they say that unless he is willing to work and prove he can do the easy work then he won't get moved up to do the harder work. Since he started in October his attitude to school has got worse and his behaviour is now becoming disruptive in class. When we talk to him he says the work is way to easy and he is just so bored. The problem is his handwriting is so bad that he is never going to be neat and quick so is trying to be neat and then not completing work. He knows that he is going to prep school in September with older 2 DCs and as far as he is concerned he is switching off until then as he knows the work will be harder and he will enjoy it. If I give him extra work at home he completes it easily with no messing about and lots of concentration and effort. His teacher says he can't sit still in class but she knows he is listening so is putting up with it. I am pulling my hair out with him he is so stubborn that he will just waste this year waiting for next and disrupting the other children in his current class, I need his teacher to be more strict with him but she thinks he is "sweet"!! Help

Firstly, don't automatically believe any child who says he's bored.

it sounds as if he's becoming a bit (sorry - you did ask) arrogant and if I were you I would be down on him like a ton of bricks - no [insert favourite activity] unless a decent standard of work is done and his behaviour is acceptable.

We are on him like a ton of bricks, he hasn't had a video game in a week due to his behaviour.

The thing is we have just come back from the states where he was in a gifted and talented programme and they worked them very hard, so I can belive he is bored or maybe thinks that as he was ahead at the start of October he can have a rest for a while. The standard of work is easier than he was used to there (he was accelerated 2 years, but the school here don't understand the US test results so have basically ignored them)

I just wish the teacher would come down on him like a ton of bricks as well, no point in discipline at home if school don't bother. I keep asking if we can have a little sheet passed back and forth about his behaviour as I am concerned but they say he is OK just energetic. So if he is OK then why once a week tell me he is disruptive. I am worried that the switching on button will be hard to find when he goes to prep in September and he will have fallen behind