Baby of the family struggling in reception class

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Does anyone have similar experience 3 dcs Dd1 9 , dd2 7, ds 5.
He is i think still young for his age end of april birthday and we think he was not ready at all for school.
Now we are being told that he requires "early intervention", extra help,individual learning plan ? sen listing.
He wants to play outside in the playground has a little group of friends and goes to school quite happily. But he still can hardly write his name and struggles with letters.
Am really worried how he will cope in year 1 and dont want him to be sad or stressed at school.
Would be especially interested to hear from anyone who has a boy as youngest in the family.
My girls are both at the older end of their school cohort and both doing fine.

HI, don't really have experience, especially not with SEN, but will be interested to see how you get on. I have a June-born boy (DS2) due to start school in 3 months. He also has 2 older high achieving autumn birthday siblings.
The family joke is to expect DS2 to be 3 years behind, academically, his autumn born sister (middle child).

I may be wrong, but I would have thought that having extra help (SEN support) would take a lot of pressure off your DS, because he'd be getting the extra 1-to-1.

Try not to panic, boys do generally mature later, particularly with hand writing.

However, don't ignore it. My DS is the eldest and if we are honest we knew he was going to have problems with literacy even at nursery. The good news is that although my DS is highly dyslexic and despite the battle to get him through all the firey hoops and brick walls, he has won through, and is an amazing person because of the need to persist, overlearn and work twice at hard at everything. Alternatively, your DS may just be a typical boychild who's strongest gifts will be sport, maths or science. Compare him to other boys of the same age, not girls.