Handwriting

At Elmore Green Primary School, we are very proud of our pupil’s handwriting and take particular care in our cursive/joined handwriting style. We use Letter-join as the basis of our approach to handwriting, which covers all the requirements of the National Curriculum.

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Handwriting is a basic skill that influences the quality of work throughout the curriculum. At the end of Key Stage 1, pupils should form all letters correctly and begin to use a cursive script.  By the end of Key Stage 2, all pupils should have the ability to produce fluent, legible and, eventually, speedy joined-up handwriting, and to understand the different forms of handwriting used for different purposes.

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We aim to make handwriting an automatic process that does not interfere with creative and mental thinking.

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If you are practising any handwriting or letter formation at home, we ask that you take a look at the handwriting script we teach at Elmore Green.  Encouraging your child to form/join letters in the same way that we do at school will ensure an accurate style and avoid confusion.  If a child learns how to form or join letters incorrectly, it is extremely difficult to re-teach them the correct way and this will hinder their progress throughout the English curriculum and may prevent them from attaining national expectations at the end of each Key Stage.

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