Thanks to everyone who has given me advice on this in earlier threads. Here's the situation, as we go into year 3. DC has great fine motor control, can do tiny, detailed drawings with pencil or pen, has fantastic dexterity and can put together fiddly components easily, but has handwriting that is noticeably babyish compared to some others in his class.
I realise I am making the mistake of comparing him to the very few children that have already got cursive handwriting sorted and are far and away ahead of the next best group of readers and writers. These children are also at least 9 months older than DC, but it still bothers me.
His teacher last year said it was frustrating for him because he takes so long to write that he can't get enough content out, but is bursting with ideas. His vocabulary is as good as any in his class, but he can hardly ever demonstrate it in writing because it takes him ages to write neatly between the lines with the correct letter size.
I did take some of your advice and did some sporadic, progressive handwriting practice over the summer hols, probably 10 minutes at a time.
So what now, leave alone, continue to supplement what happens at school, or what?
I am worried that his new teacher will rarely get the chance to see what's going on in his head