When DS's report says...

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"DS is experimenting with mark making and can write some recognisable letters with 1-1 support."

I allowed DS to comment (as we have a parent and child comment box) "actuly I can rit ol my letters a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w y z"

WIBU? He'll have the same teacher next year, so I don't really want to piss her off, but I think it's a bit crap she hasn't noticed he can write.

Yes that wd be annoying but also quite funny.

Does he write them all correctly? Starting in the right place and not taking his pencil off?

the teacher may not be aware he can write if he never does, or only will with support. it is good that you are making her aware. I would want to talk with her about it, ask for ways to encourage him with writing etc

Oops, you may have annoyed her, but she will probably take a bit more care with your son in future. I know a few teachers and they say PITA parents are PITAS but also do get a little bit more attention for their kids.

The teacher will just assume you made him write it...but it is funny

Would only be a good idea if he wrote that all by himself without any help, support, prompting, sheet to copy from, hand holding, tracing......

Lol-I'm rather suprised that she hasn't noticed. Has child-initiated play in YR gone so far that the children aren't writing anything at school unless they choose to!?

writing at home with you is a bit different to writing independently in a busy and distracting classroom full of his mates though. Maybe he just hasn't shown her enough 'evidence' of this skill yet for her to be sure he is secure in it.

he wrote it himself. To be fair, his d looked like a b, his k was a bit dodgy and he forgot x, but I think this is a bit further than mark making in EYFS profile terms.

Some children do very different things at home to what they do at school. For example I have this with counting so often, a child won't count in Nursery but when I mention it to the parents they say they can count confidently to ten.

Rather than writing a sarcastic comment why not go and meet with the teacher. You need to find out if your ds is choosing not to write in school or hasn't been given the opportunity. Early years is all about gathering a picture of the whole child by forming relationships with parents. I'm always very happy to see examples of drawing/writing from home and I'm sure your child's teacher would be too.

This made me giggle but I would not encourage my DSs to do something like this as its a bit sarcastic and may irritate the teacher.

They may describe it at mark making until it is formed in the proper way eg cursive, if thats what they do at the school or as the others said he may not be doing this at school.

If it was me, I would go in and see the teacher and talk to them about it and maybe ask to see some of his writing work. you could say that you wish to help him more at home as you didn't realise he was not doing what he can do at home, in school.