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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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stillljh · 20/01/2025 18:32

Reception. The drawing on the left also looks like a reception child did it.
Saw and went might have been taught in class at some point. They might even be on display on the wall.
The child might have asked for beach and copied it from the board.
It depends on when the writing was done. Did your child do this at home or at school?

I taught reception, although that was 15 years ago so maybe standards have changed. A lot of children could write like that by the end of reception.

londondragonite · 20/01/2025 18:32

Reception or Y1.

Jennaveeve · 20/01/2025 18:31

Reception. I work in year 1 and this is unusual, not unheard of, but not meeting expectations.

stichguru · 20/01/2025 18:29

stichguru · 20/01/2025 18:24

Good literacy for reception
Average for year 1
A little behind for year 2

Looking again
I'd say a year 2 with some coordination difficulties making their writing rather wild.
Year 1 without the tidiest handwriting, but pretty good literacy
Reception with pretty good handwriting and quite advanced literacy

Differentstarts · 20/01/2025 18:28

Reception/ year 1 for writing. Drawing he/she draws better then me

SpanThatWorld · 20/01/2025 18:27

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There is no advantage to learning early. There are no prizes for being first and it doesn't predict who will do better in the long run.

In Scandinavia they're still in pre-school at 6 and their literacy results are excellent by the time they're 11.

Nameynameynamename · 20/01/2025 18:25

Mandatoryamanda · 20/01/2025 15:46

Year 1 (left handed)

Why on earth should being left handed make a difference?

stichguru · 20/01/2025 18:24

Good literacy for reception
Average for year 1
A little behind for year 2

Oreyt · 20/01/2025 18:21

I'd say 3-4 year old.

oakleaffy · 20/01/2025 18:20

Possibly a worried/anxious child as their nails look to be quite bitten down?

snapdragonx · 20/01/2025 18:20

There is some good knowledge and use of
digraphs there, such as -ew, ee. aw and oa. That's embedded year 1/2 level. But the handwriting and mixture of capital and lower case letters isn't great. Perhaps instead of focusing on handwriting, look into retain primitive reflexes. Some hand, eye, brain exercises to connect both sides of the brain together and to the fine motor control. Not straight to practicing handwriting.

verabarbleen · 20/01/2025 18:18

My little boy is 5 in year one and he is not quite at this level yet but he is a bit behind bless him so I would say this looks like reception/year 1 but then this will probably be my son by year 2 it's so hard to say they are all so different!

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DottieMoon · 20/01/2025 18:04

Reception

muddyford · 20/01/2025 18:04

DH's DGD wrote like that in reception. I still have it, dated. So 4?

SometimesCalmPerson · 20/01/2025 18:03

I’d guess an able reception child. I don’t think the capitals indicate that they’re older, there are plenty of opportunities for reception children to learn capitals and chops to use them, we just don’t teach them yet.

AnxiousRose · 20/01/2025 18:00

4/5

Yerto · 20/01/2025 17:59

My daughter is Reception and this is similar to what she’s been doing, and her peers.

HPandthelastwish · 20/01/2025 17:58

bridgetreilly · 20/01/2025 17:55

I still can’t work out what she saw: tobrsele?

gabriele

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bridgetreilly · 20/01/2025 17:55

I still can’t work out what she saw: tobrsele?

TENSsion · 20/01/2025 17:53

Reception-year 2

HairyLairyQuiteContrary · 20/01/2025 17:52

Did they draw the picture?....