Yes and no.

I think that the teacher has no idea what to do with him. He is very wilful, loud and outspoken and has been rude to her. It is a very bad personality clash.

He is very fond of word play and rhymmes and makes up funny and rude alternatives to answers and names, including hers. Very funny, very clever but entirely inappropriate. She absolutely does not "get" him. In a lot of ways I actually feel sorry for her as he can run rings round her, just for fun.

She has given him harder books to read but insists he sits in on the jolly phonics, so he won't feel "left out." She also complains about his immaturity and lousy handwriting. As for the maths he has no accomodations whatsoever and has to take part in the "counting reliably to ten."

She was quite cross that he went to school reading and I get the feeeling that she is marking the days off until he goes up a year.

When he gets home from school I then have to work with him on the things that he really wants to do.

We bought a times table poster a few years ago and he uses it to check his answers when he does sums in his head. He hasnt learnt his tables, he likes to work it out in his head whilst doing something else, usually lego. All of his maths is done whilst doing something else, he just talks numbers while building incessantly with lego.

The same with reading, he actually learnt to read by asking how something was spelt and then repeating it to himself whilst doing something else at the same time.

Anyone else got a child like that?

We are East midlands/North but originate from London.