7 in a few days writing

[writingworry]

Hi I've attached a pic of a party invite my 6 (7) year old

I recently moved his school as they told me at his last school he was about average
His writing was illegible

Now he goes to a new school who said he was more at the end of reception level with reading and writing and maths

Carpet time etc all the ideas are there

It's crumbling my heart

He's going to a tutor once week and his teacher is so supportive
I haven't seen her since before Christmas I was sick

But this is progress in our house

So I've asked to see the tutor for a parent teacher meeting

I am wondering about other childrens writing of this agE

We believe he is AsD spectrum and also ADhD so he has support at school but no EUHCP

I am on the pathway but will go private as it's years

He is asking about grammar school 🥹🥹❤️

My son who is turning 7 in June writes exactly the same as your son. His school have done what they can to determine if he's got dyslexia and they believe he has got it but they can't say for definite due to his age. They also suggested we get his eyesight checked which brought up some problems too.

I can tell your son has tried really hard with his letter and it's important that he keeps practising like you are doing.

My son does not stop moving when he's writing and it's difficult to get him to focus. He doesn't participate in class or speak to teachers so they struggle to assist him. He has a Sen plan and does extra 1 to 1 lessons.

I've thought about outside tutoring but we do 40 mins to an hour most day in maths spellings and reading two books every night and at this age I think it's important to have a good balance so they don't feel overwhelmed. At times I think I do too much with him and the progress is still very slow you just don't know what to do for the best.

The letters look pretty neat and well formed, but it looks like he doesn't have any real idea of how they actually go together to make words? Apart from the first word I can't make out any of it. Do you know what it's meant to say and can you recognise those words within that writing? Because to the uninformed, it just looks like a long line of random letters. What kind of stage is he at with reading?

My DS is a bit younger but much messier than that. Although probably a bit better at finger spaces.

I'm sure he will be fine.

Have a look at the pre-key stage standards, can he do these? My gut says PK3.

Can’t he just learn to type?

It is one of my parenting regrets, handwriting practice. My DC primary school was big on cursive writing. Sodding hours, weeks, whole holidays were spent trying to get decent handwriting out of both DC.

Now in secondary and type for almost everything. DC 1 sitting GCSEs will get 6s and upwards in everything. DC2 wins the English prize regularly. Neither child has decent handwriting.

I would be speaking to the school about what support can be put in place (which maybe a challenge with the current state of school funding).

That writing is very poor for his age.

It doesn’t seem to be handwriting be has an issue with though, it’s spelling/spacing/the understanding of what a sentence is.

My daughter is dyslexic and that is similar to what her writing would have been like. Ask about getting him checked. We thought my daughter had ADHD but realised that she was actually frustrated because what she was trying to write wasn't what was going on the page.