How We Teach Handwriting at The Trinity Primary Academy

Here at The Trinity Primary Academy, we want our children to feel proud of their learning and want to share their ideas, thoughts and knowledge. Having neat legible handwriting fosters a sense of pride in their learning, allows others to read their learning and supports error corrections.

Handwriting starts in Early Years, where the children are taught to sit at a table and hold a pencil correctly.

This continues into Key Stage One, where correct letter formation is taught across the curriculum, especially within phonics and where appropriate discrete handwriting lessons using the Letter-join handwriting scheme. 

In Key Stage Two, children are taught handwriting discretely everyday using the Letter-join handwriting scheme.

From Key Stage One, we teach the cursive letter formation using "letter families", the cursive joins are taught from Year Two.