Feeling really upset. Our son is 5 years old (6 in June) and is well behaved, kind, social, and has a good verbal vocabulary and knowledge of the world.
He has never been particularly interested in writing, and reading, working at school, etc. But he is not disruptive. We have always read to him (which he enjoys), and since starting reception in 2016 have done all the reading and phonics with him as directed. Doing homework has always been a challenge because he doesn't often want to do it - leading to battles. But it is always done.
Feedback from teachers has been he is good and quiet in class, but just doesn't listen well (daydreaming), leading him to not completing tasks properly. We got this feedback in parents evening, and was told he will fall behind if he doesn't sort it out. Today i was called across the playground by teacher, who was clearly very frustrated saying he had been given a task to write a passage about a book they are studying, but he didn't do any writing. Teacher was clearly angry, frustrated and just barked out (inarticulately) that he must do it, pushing the book and a page with keywords on to me, saying he has to do it at home. She said he will be completely left behind unless he starts focusing and its unacceptable and I needed to sort it.
DS was extremely upset, apologising, and inconsolable on the way home. We have done the work but i was hoping for some advice:
How can I improve active listening skills? How can I improve his creative writing? We learn his spelling homework each week but he then struggles to retain that info and won't use the correct spelling in his writing??
We already do additional workbooks at home to try and improve his skills and do try really hard with him with all his homework (maths, spellings, phonics, reading). Just don't know what else to do and feel angry with the teacher (maybe unfairly so??) and mortified.
My husband and I both found school relatively easy and don't want this to become an issue for our son...Any words of advice really appreciatedx