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What age/year at school, would you put my Dc ar?

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Nonstoprain · 20/01/2025 15:37

Looking at this?

What age/year at school, would you put my Dc ar?
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Happyhippos123 · 20/01/2025 19:41

How old is the child who wrote it?

SuffolkUnicorn · 20/01/2025 19:41

Does it really matter stop comparing 🙄

SuffolkUnicorn · 20/01/2025 19:41

My kids better than your kid
mine wrote like that at 6 months old and gave stick people actual hair styles

seriously what is wrong with some of you

bakewellbride · 20/01/2025 19:38

I've seen kids try to write this sentence but write 'I'm going to the bitch' instead Grin

Tootiredmummyof3 · 20/01/2025 19:36

I'm really surprised so many people are saying reception. I would have thought an older Y1: or possibly even a young Y2.
While it's a bit messy the spelling and sentence structure are too advanced for reception and I don't know any nursery children who can write anything like that well.

SnidelyWhiplash · 20/01/2025 19:31

Around 4? That’s just how ours used to write the year before they started reception.

Blondeshavemorefun · 20/01/2025 19:23

So @Nonstoprain 4hrs later can you let us know your child’s age

either they are

Genius if 2/3

normal /average 4/5

slightly behind 5/6

very behind or learning issues if 7+

Sherrystrull · 20/01/2025 19:23

Depressedbarbie · 20/01/2025 19:20

I would say a year 2 child who is struggling with their writing. (Teacher)

I agree with this. Or even a year 3 with additional needs. There is some understanding of all of phase 5 which year 1 won't have covered yet.

Sherrystrull · 20/01/2025 19:22

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This is not middle of the road year 1. This is full sentences with good capital letters and full stops. This is expected for the end of y1.

Ayechinnyreckon · 20/01/2025 19:20

It's practically identical to my yr1 child's handwriting. And not far off my year 4 child's writing but both my children have dreadful handwriting!

Depressedbarbie · 20/01/2025 19:20

I would say a year 2 child who is struggling with their writing. (Teacher)

Rufus27 · 20/01/2025 19:18

Looking at the picture in the margin, as well as the text, this reminds me of my children (both average ability but autistic) when they were about 7.

xRobin · 20/01/2025 19:18

I’d guess nursery with the mixed lowercase and capital letters. Or maybe a summer baby Reception pupil.
I’ve been a TA in Reception (and have a little one of my own) and the formation of the “e” in beach makes me think 3/4 years old.

Namechange4840 · 20/01/2025 19:17

Its better than my child and my child has just turned 5, left handed to always puts e, g, b etc the wrong way round and also getting tested for asd. His dad had dyslexia and dyspraxia I suspect may be the same. What age are they op? I wouldn't worry too much everyone's writing improves with age or we could have a child genius as you haven't told us the age yet 😄.

LittleBigHead · 20/01/2025 19:10

Age 4 or so - but I've seen 3 year olds write like this.

Now off to see what the OP says

Babaganoush2013 · 20/01/2025 19:09

Who is Gabrielle? Your little one seems to have spelt that difficult name almost correctly & the letters are all close together compared to all the other words...

elliejjtiny · 20/01/2025 19:01

My 11 year old writes similar to this but smaller. He has learning disabilities though. I would guess year 1 if no SEN.

Tahlbias · 20/01/2025 18:51

Spelling-year 1.
Writing-early reception.
That is what it would look like in my school anyway. Every school is different.

Edited to add, the child is possibly aged between, 4 and 7, as the 's' is reversed.

Dartmoorcheffy · 20/01/2025 18:50

Around 4 years old

Sunbeam01 · 20/01/2025 18:49

Reception or Y1

FrodisCapering · 20/01/2025 18:47

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Puddingcloths · 20/01/2025 18:46

It is the same handwriting as my 11 year old son in year 7. He is extremely dyslexic and also very academically able. He uses dictation software these days.

Bournetilly · 20/01/2025 18:46

Year 1

Mountainash · 20/01/2025 18:44

An 8yr old, close relative, wrote like this. Now, aged 9 and there has been a significant improvement.

Bryonyberries · 20/01/2025 18:41

Not preschool.

I'd say an older Y1/Y2