Hi there,
We are in a school where the English teacher is not understanding of my sons handwriting issues . He is in Y5, and we have raised concerns for a year now. We have tried the grips, he has practiced curves and lines and directions, we have done a magic link course. Ultimately as they have to wrote more this year, he is concentrating so hard on trying to write that he can't concentrate on the learning. He says that it hurts his arm when he writes 'the magic link way'. He doesn't have any signs of dyspraxia and we don't know what the cause is. The teacher told us in parents evening in November she wouod speak to the SEN lead but basically didn't bother. She has now scored him below average in English. He is actually advanced in English , excelling in VR and spelling tests too. But I think she is being subjective and ut us due to the handwriting. She doesn't think he has a handwriting issue when he clearly does. It is very slow and hurts to write a lot. All we want is to be allowed to do ahandqriting assessment in school . Instead she has put him into all the handwriting club, comprehension clubs etc as school they are for boys struggling. It affects his confidence in English then which he is actually strong in. Last year he was in therapy for low confidence so this is absolutely the wrong approach and she did it without telling us. We have a meeting today with her and SEN and I know they will basically make it difficult when this should be urgent because he does not have long until his 11 plus. Any tips from anyone as to what we can say to persuade them there is an issue (I know we shouldn't have to but this is the situation). He was born 10 weeks early but has no issues that we know of. I'm so stressed and really piss*d off with the school who have failed in many ways.