[senco-forum] Handwriting

Handwriting is not really addressed by the NC other than to say that it
should be cursive by Year 4.

Teachers are now rated at NO. 1 for poor handwriting pushing doctors to the
NO 2 spot, and unlikely to be making handwriting a priority ( and where in
the timetable exactly(!)

It is not just legibility that is at issue but also speed.  Does child x
only produce 1/2 a page because he is a poor descriptive writer or because
he has poor procioceptor feedback, motor difficulties or dysgraphia?
Without testing writing speed for the whole class periodically how can you
know.

Recent Y4 whole class speed test found that many were writing in the bottom
20% speed wise and were not necessarily the children that might have been
expected to have 'problems'.  It is an area that has been overlooked for too
long.

The collection of primarily Primary writing speed tests that I have found
are still up for grabs.  Secondary speed test available online at PATOSS.

Sharon Tringham

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