Do Schools Teach 'Joined Up' Handwriting These Days?

My eight year old grandchild was taught joined up writing from the start. My seventeen year old grandchild was not.

I remember a few years back when my granddaughter was 7 and I wrote a message on her birthday card. Thinking I was making it easier for her to read I didn’t use my usual cursive writing. She read the message and after a pause said “I wonder why your teacher didn’t show you how to join up your letters Gran, I can show you if you like” 😆

We teach cursive writing from Y1. We did try it from Reception, but the incredibly wide variation in fine motor skills made us decide to focus on formation first, and learning to add flicks.

It first became a focus in KS1 when you couldn’t achieve Level 3 SAT in writing if your writing didn’t show some evidence of joining up.

At SAT moderation meetings it was entertaining to see what was judged by different schools as some evidence of joining up in order to give level 3.

Cursive writing is taught at both primary schools GC attend and in the two that the older GC attended before senior school.

Oreo

Day one?
Four year olds can’t usually write or spell anything.

Absolutely day one, I am talking about letter formation, would add that lots of four year olds will have a stab at writing their own name.

It will become obsolete in time I think as future generations do less and less writing anything by hand.

Day one?
Four year olds can’t usually write or spell anything.

Our Primary teach cursive from day one

It was called cursive writing years ago.

Yes, I think so,
I know both my grandsons handwriting was joined up by about eight or so, and I doubt it was self taught.