DS1 came home from school today and told me that he didn't want to go to school any more. I thought he was going to tell me that someone had pushed him or something like that, but he said it's because the work is too easy and he knows it all.
I believe him on this - he's finished the ORT level 9 books and is flying through chapter books at home, but has to sit on the carpet spelling words like "cat" and "has" and "gap". He says he always knows the phonics lesson already and it's boring, and he knows the words they practise. He says that they do number rockets with 3+3, but I know at home he can add two digit numbers in his head with no problem, and does multiplications for fun when he's in the car. It's a small school - he has only 9 others in his year, and he's already grouped with the Y2 for guided reading.
How can I convey my son's feelings (and now mine) to his teacher without coming across as pushy. The teacher is lovely, but from what DS1 says it doesn't seem as she is differentiating for him. At the parents evening in the summer, she told me he was secure with the numbers up to twenty: I almost fell off my chair, as he was that when he turned 3, and is now secure with counting numbers up to about ten thousand 
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