“Surprise” SEN register letter

[hangryeyes]

Parent-teacher calls are later this week, today DC 6yo/Year 2 came home with an SEN action plan to be read in advance of this meeting.
This is the first time I have been told they would require SEN support, is this usual? Should they have been in communication over this before a letter?
For background, DC has always been shy and a little anxious, will talk to other kids/has plenty of friends but not adults unless pressed to do so, received some post lockdown reading support (NOT SENCO related, clarified at the time this was to get him up to being an independent reader by end of year 3 and that no additional concerns as he was average/slightly below), school provided a rubber bracelet to chew on due to chewing on jumper while concentrating in class. We had discussed with both pre school and reception teachers about whether speech therapy was required, but both came to conclusion DC was quiet and this was a personality trait rather than a problem, no other concerns were ever mentioned.
Action plan mainly concerns encouraging class participation and encouraging him to express his emotions and work more independently. Also makes references to improving counting and word recognition (although he is in the middle groups of the class, which is clear based on how the homework is assigned on the online app).

I am in agreement that these areas need work, but not so sure they warrant an SEN action plan.

Is this really out of the blue or to be expected? Anything I should specially ask them?

I was going to say (in response to your 2nd sentence) that of course it shouldn't have come out of the blue, but then from everything else you have put in your post, it hasn't.

You have literally said DC has always been shy and a little anxious, will talk to other kids/has plenty of friends but not adults unless pressed to do so so the fact the school are now putting in a plan encouraging class participation and encouraging him to express his emotions and work more independently is hardly a new thing being broached, nor 'out of the blue'.

You've said you have been discussing concerns since pre-school.

They have given you a draft plan to read ahead of meeting with them, so you can have a thin and discuss it with them later this week.

It all sounds very positive to me.

I agree with Kite, this doesn't appear to be out of the blue since concerns have been raised in previous years and DS has had SEN provision made.