My son is in reception at a school I have been a parent of for many years. At his first parents evening online, I was surprised that the teacher couldn't say anything positive about my child. The only positive thing she had to say was that he had settled in well to school. The rest was that he doesn't blend his words when reading, he always gives a blank look when he is asked to do something, he is too quiet and has made the wrong choice of friends because he lacks confidence but the friends he has are confident. I decided to just forget about it, I know that my son is very shy and I felt he was progressing well. During lockdown I did a lot of phonics work and he finally got the hang of blending and was confidently reading simple books. He also took an amazing interest in Maths, and started to confidently count beyond 100, he also started counting in 2's, 5's and 10's he started adding up and taking away. I was so proud of how far he had progressed. Then he went back to school, and I wanted to know how he had settled back into learning at school. Again I didn't get one positive remark. All I was told was he constantly talks about minecraft. Yes, I let him play minecraft and I don't really see the problem, because his favourite thing to do is build number blocks up to 100 in colour co-ordination. I find it quite amazing that a child of his age can do that. I explained to the teacher that this was what he did and she told me I should buy lego instead. I felt she implied that all I do is let him play video games all day, which is far from the truth. We have strict limits on how much he can play on a device. The rest of the time he is out playing in the garden, drawing or going to the park. Again I thought I would just let it go, and forget about it because at home he was still doing well. Then this week came and she told me that in the week he said playing minecraft makes him happy, and he finds some of the work at school boring. She said she told him it's not boring it's just too difficult for him, and she then told me I need to buy more things like lego and board games to stop him playing minecraft. It's really put my back up, because we have plenty of other educational games that he enjoys playing. I feel I have a good balance. But what has really annoyed me is the statement of the work being too hard for him, I asked my son if he felt it was hard and he said the opposite. He especially said the maths is easy and boring. My daughter left this school for grammar school, and in family conversation my daughter told me she was bored all the way through primary school because she felt the work was too easy. This particular teacher told me my daughter was lazy also and that if she carried on the way she was she would fall behind her peers. I just don't know what to do about it? I am thinking of waiting for his end of year report and if that is very negative then I am contemplating talking with the head teacher. Do you think that would be unreasonable? I just don't want him to be labelled as lazy like my daughter was.