Should I talk to the teacher now, or wait until September?

[FireEngineGeorge]

DD8 (year 3) got her end of year report today, they break up on Thursday.

She "has not reached expected standard but has potential to do so with the right support" for writing. This is fine but I'm a bit annoyed as this hasn't been mentioned to me at all at any point until today, which seems slightly pointless 3 days before the end of term.

I'm mostly annoyed because at parents evening both me and the teacher were concerned about her speech (she has a slight lisp) and the teacher mentioned it affecting her spelling (the only issue she mentioned) and said she would refer to another teacher to assess whether DD needed extra support with her speech. I chased this multiple times, and then was told they had decided that because it wasn't affecting her work, there was nothing to be done (they didn't see DD in the end).

Now my dilemma is - do I speak to the (lovely, and I'm sure busy) teacher to ask what the "right support" will be in September and is there anything I can do to help during the summer now or wait until September? I don't want to add extra stress/work for the teacher right before summer but I also want to be on top of this as soon as she starts y4 and push for an assessment of her speech.

In year 3, I wouldn't expect just spelling to be the only reason a child was not at the expected standard for writing . It would be grammar, punctuation, content etc. You could ask the year 3 teacher for more detail so you know what to work on. Was there no more detail in the report? At my school we give specific targets.
Then you could speak to the year 4 teacher after a few weeks to see how she's getting on.
Regarding the speech, I'd expect the senco/inclusion leader to sort that out, so you could request a call or meeting with them? Sounds like the class teacher did speak to that person already. I know speech and language therapy is in demand and it's hard to fit everyone in, but expressing your concerns again will only help.

Are you imagining that a speech & language assessment will improve your child's writing? Tbh it sounds like the teacher has already recommended 'further support' but remember expected standards is just jargon. School isn't a homogeneous machine, it's just education policy dictates these tiresome 'standards' lines in the sand. Give the school feedback re your concern and the HT will get back to you.

See the teacher now to plan summer support at home and again in September to ensure she'll be getting the help she needs at school. Get her speech assessed - but the report seems to indicate that more than spellings are affected so you need to fInd out what the issues actually are.

I'd be annoyed too to be told earlier her work wasn't affected and now this.

Ah it was SENCO she mentioned, I just completely forgot that name when writing my OP. No, I don't think speech and language therapy will change her writing level but the teacher specifically mentioned before that she couldn't pronounce some words so couldn't hear them correctly to spell them. And then to be told it wasn't affecting her work, I assumed (wrongly) that everything was ok. So I guess I'm annoyed that it wasn't mentioned earlier. Parents evening was in march.

There wasn't any more detail as they do mid year reports in march. This one just has the subject and a code (B1/E1/B2 etc) and a breakdown of what the codes mean. I've just looked back on her report from March and her writing target was "to use more ambitious vocabulary" and that she needed to develop a neater cursive script. It did mention she sometimes found English challenging but that she was on track to meet the expected target.

I think I'll speak to her teacher briefly tomorrow at pick up to see if there was major changes between March and now, and how I can support her over the summer. Then chase up properly with her y4 teacher in September.

Thanks for your the replies.