To say this is not a 6yr olds handwriting?

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This is surely an adult pretending to write like a child?

The way the writing sits perfectly on the lines, the spacing between the letters…

Oh you cynic!

It's the 6 and a half that gets me. I feel like someone told him to write his age

Completely agree!

Can’t spell “school” but you know to capitalise Swindon Town? 😂😂😂😂😂

But I hope they find him and if a genuine fan who can't afford to go I hope they invite him free of charge.

I agree! It looks like DB’s writing. He’s 55! (It is terrible writing for an adult though!). It’s far straighter and consistent than typical 6 years old writing.

I think an adult would have put a return address!

I think it's from a 6 year old personally. He missed out the capital letter in mummy and there are a few spelling mistakes. Lots of schools start cursive from reception or year 1 so kids start learn joined up writing earlier than we did.

Yeah, there's no way a 6 year old wrote that

Yeah - agree with pp, a cynical adult would surely have put the address unless they are an evil genius...

No it's not a 6 year old writing it, but I imagine the 6 year old dictated it and an adult wrote it, which is a feasible idea.

The fact there's no address and no stamp though makes me think they're not looking to gain anything

@welliewarmer

The fact there's no address and no stamp though makes me think they're not looking to gain anything

Good point

A 6 year old wouldn't write 'aged' either - they'd write 'age'

It's not only the hand writing but the style which doesn't seem quite right to me.

I know, I know, I’m a cynical old goat

Did wonder what an adult would gain from it but nowt as queer as folk as they say!

Not a six year old! No school would be teaching letter shapes like that, and if learning cursive it would have some lead in and out strokes (or attempts).

Could easily be an adult scribing what he said, and nothing wrong with that. The letter doesn’t say ‘I handwrote this myself’.

There are also probably better teams they could have written to if not a genuine big fan

Don't 6 year olds get free school meals?

That is very unlikely to have been written by a 6 year old! I work in a school and have never seen a 6 year old write like that.
Also, the letters aren't consistent.
Could very well be genuine and dictated by a child and written by an adult or older sibling but if it was an adult, I don't get why you'd try to pass it off as a child's writing?
I'm a cynic though!

Good point @SomeOwlsCoo

Yeah, I wonder how many times a 6 year old spells school 'as schol', remembering the unlikely 'sch' and forgetting the typical 'oo'?

No return address marked on the letter though, so more likely to be some weirdo pretending to be a kid than a chancer looking for freebies.

I think the child has dictated it to an adult, surely?

The signature looks like it could be a six year old.

I don’t think they are being deceptive.

It is a bit odd. I realise this isn’t the core point, but apart from the handwriting, the bit that stood out for me is that in England 6.5 year olds don’t currently pay for dinner at school anyway.
I do appreciate that there will be parents of Y2 children worried now about how they will pay for meals in September.

No, it is adult writing and adult language.
See the inconsistent tails on the y and g. The writer is trying to change their normal writing.
The inconsistent gaps between the words are odd. The spaced out sentence at the end indicates untruthfulness - the writer does not mean what they are saying where the words are un-naturally spaced out and not in proportion to the lettering.

Yanbu

No child wrote that or passionately demanded 26p get sent to feed the poor (christ the stamp cost more than they sent! It's a >100% overhead )
If he really wanted to help they could have put a bag of pasta in the food bank bin at the supermarket.

It's a PR stunt by the mother who fancies a season or two in the corporate box with the prawn sandwich brigade.

I'm a bit surprised at the responses. Does you mean that the writing style looks mature/adult or those words could not have been written by a 6yo?
Is it the cursive that makes it look faked or what? I'm genuinely asking because my 5.5yo can write this letter, easily and neater and I'm genuine. They have done joining letters grammar, would know Simon Town needed to be in capitals, etc. Is it the wording that people are questioning or the actual words?