Does anyone elses school make their kids write with a quill and ink?

[sandyballs]

I met an old friend for coffee this morning and we were chatting about our 5 year olds and how quickly this first year at school has gone etc etc. She said her DD would have to write with a quill and ink when she goes back in September, apparently it encourages good handwriting. I'm stunned. She was also saying how much her DD had learnt during the past few months, apparently they have been studying the suffragettes and Emily Pankhurst.

A bit heavy for 5 year olds maybe? She looked alarmed when I said my DD had spent the last few months playing - with the occasional bit of reading and writing thrown in.

[TheDullWitch]

Well, if the lessons had sunk in she'd know it was Emmeline Pankhurst.

[sandyballs]

That's probably me, not her

[Blandmum]

ds, aged 6 has stidied the Victorians this term and told me when queen Victoria was born and all about Mary Seacoal and Alexander Graham Bell.

I was seriously impressed and he loved it all.

[zippitippitoes]

the first school I went to actually had an ink monitor who filled the ink wells everyday

[nikkie]

they are nat curriculum for year R/1 I think I remember this from supply work in KS1
My dd1 learns all sorts in school I can never remeber doing.