I would advice on referrals to Educational psychologist's. The pro's and con's. Is it helpful, can it have a mark against him in the future?
My 11 yr old son (in yr 6) gets on well at school, but gets a test anxiety, which drags him down alot.. He also has this tendency to apologise for himself, over nothing. It comes in spells. Perhaps at stressful times. One thing is it has echoes of me. I remember friends 'telling me off' for apologising, but that was in my 20's. Nature or nurture. But I'm ok and holding down a steady job, and no more weird than the rest of us? He has a maths tutor, who has urged me to ask for the referral, and his schoolteacher discussed it.