We moved house this year and DS is settled in school. He is very social and made a good number of friends and enjoys school though misses his old friends too. His old school was a smaller town and his previous teacher had been a principal in p1 and 2 so knew him well.
A few weeks in to the new school I noticed homework seemed a good bit easier than he had been getting and similar to words he had 2 years ago. He took the slip home and he is in the second bottom group. Previously he had been in the top and had been doing maths work from p4 during the last 3 months of p3. I spoke to his teacher during parents night and she was quite shocked and said his work was indicative that he was in the right group. I didn't disagree with her, I can see he hasn't been working at all in class. We agreed she would speak to a colleague about additional support to be put in place and reassess after half term. We are a few weeks back now and no change to homework words (pay, bow etc), I haven't heard anything from his teacher but DS says he has been working at a table by himself and wearing ear defenders.
In the interim my friend at old school spoke to his old teacher who was shocked at the change and said he was capable of more and needs a bit of a push. He's a very easily distracted little boy and very chatty, needs directed to task repeatedly. Some signs of ADHD. He reads for at least 2 hours night or spends his time designing comics, i sometimes have to remove his lamp to stop him reading to go to sleep. He then listens to audiobooks at bedtime. We usually do a chapter together of a book too.
We are doing homework set by school and then practicing spelling the words set by his old school, he manages them fine without my input. I don't want to be THAT parent and I'm well aware of how chatty and potentially hard work my son could be at school. But I feel concerned with the sudden deterioration since moving school. I'm going to take him for an eye test in case there is something physical at play. Is there a way to help support his development without rubbing the teacher up the wrong way?