When he was in Reception his teacher thought she saw “something” (she was very vague) - DS struggled to sit on the carpet / struggled to sit on a chair/ found holding his pencil correctly very difficult . However he met expectations at the end of the year and no more was said.
His reading and writing has been a little behind / below target all through KS1 . No SATS to look at obviously because of Covid .
Year 3 - his reading is improving (I don’t know how he compares to his peers but he could mange say a chapter of The Twits out loud with no problems) . So not dyslexia?
His maths is fine - although he struggles to concentrate for long. When he does he often amazes me with his mental arithmetic/ times tables. He does reverse numbers when writing.
His writing is SO SLOW and his spelling is really below where it should be. In school he has extra phonics group. He can manage a couple of lines only. He reverses letters .
He still can’t seem to sit on a chair for any length of time!!
Sorry this is long. My question is - does he need some kind of private assessment for any SEN? Will he catch up? Do I need to think about a private tutor so that he does catch up with his peers?
He does not enjoy school work at all (home schooling has been a struggle as you would imagine!) And he’s starting to notice that he’s behind his friends. Any ideas of what might help?