Handwriting

This term we have been practising our first join and also thinking about the size of our letters.


We have used this paper to help us. As you can see, most letters fit in between the blue lines, tall letters (ascenders) reach up to the top red line and low letters (descenders) reach down to the bottom red line.

The first join is a diagonal join from the bottom of a letter to the top of a letter without an ascender.


Here are some examples.

ed is a slightly funny one, as d does have an ascender (tall bit), but we join to the curve of the d, so it still comes in the category of first join.










The children are very keen to practise these joins so please feel free to support with this at home.


Please note that we do not teach children to join b, g, j, p, q, x, y and z