To say this is not a 6yr olds handwriting?

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

It's probably his Mum's best handwriting!

Doesn't is a tricky word for a child of six to attempt and get right, apart from the apostrophe.

Most Amazon reviewers can't manage it.

Definitely an adult. Stupid really because surely there is actually a 6 year old child so why not just get the child to write it. Genius misspelling of school .

This is writing by someone of my generation - late 50s. Secondary Modern level education and a man in poor health. Perhaps Grandad. No doubt we will find out!

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Maybe it is a Dad annoyed that there isn't enough money to fund a season ticket for him and his son. To be fair it does sound like the sort of thing I would have said when money was tight but not breadline tight and someone wanted to do something expensive but not a priority.

@TheCountessOfGrantham

I think it's bollocks and this is fairly local to me. I have a six year old boy and I don't believe a six year old boy wrote that. It's the sellotaping money to it (a six year old would just put the money in the envelope), the ripped paper, the envelope itself.... He didn't pay postage but where was it addressed to? You can't just put "Swindon town." Where did he get the envelope and the sellotape? How did he get to a postbox without his parents knowing? If his parents did know, why didn't they get him a decent bit of paper? Six year olds get universal free school dinners, so his mum isn't scrimping for change for dinners.

Sorry but I think it was a parent who wants free season tickets and trusted the power of social media

This 100%!

@StScholastica

My guess is Harry wrote it, everyone knows he is Swindons top striker now.

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@Juliauns91

This is writing by someone of my generation - late 50s. Secondary Modern level education and a man in poor health. Perhaps Grandad. No doubt we will find out!

I too felt it was an older man’s crabbed handwriting- With arthritis or nerve issues? Very stiff and jerky.

Maybe the parent helped him write it but if they were doing it for money/attention surely they would have written their return address in the first place.

@Tilltheend99

Maybe the parent helped him write it but if they were doing it for money/attention surely they would have written their return address in the first place.

No- The non address means it will “Blow up” with a “Search for Joe” There is already a crowd funder and massive offers of free season tickets and kit &c

Capitalises Swindon Town but can’t spell school and the shape of the letters look very ‘adult’ ifyswim, looking at the first ‘Swindon’ that’s very mature handwriting. 6 year olds won’t have a style yet they are just getting the letters down. That’s well established handwriting. Nope, definitely an adults handwriting, I’d put all my money on it.

Just to clarify I wouldn't have said we had no money for food but I might have said that although that Barbie Princess Dreamhouse monstrosity might be lovely to have for 5 mins and that Arabella might have three of them unfortunately we don't have the same money as Arabella and we need to pay for food, clothes and swimming lessons.

@Diablo2

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

Yes! That’s a giveaway.

My 15yr old would write similar to that she could never get to grips with writing in the style that was taught. She's autistic and also rips off sections of paper to write notes. My younger teen (also asd) has perfect writing and could have written nicer than this at 6 although very tiny.

That being said, I think it may have been written by a mum without the best grip on literacy and language when her Son has asked her to help having worked in a school I've seen lots of terrible adult writing. If there are lots of children or she's busy I know my neighbour has let her son play in the street since about 4yrs old with his siblings much to my horror so not unbelievable a 6yr old could get to the local post box. I'm not cynical enough to believe its fake, my children never had school dinners but they wouldn't have known if they were free. I hope they find him and give the family a nice day out to relieve some monotony. Would be nice for all clubs to offer up unused season tickets as there must be hundreds of empty seats on some matches to local kids who can't afford to come in.. They'll be the adults paying to watch in the future.

The age numeral looks like it started off as a 5 but was amended to look like a 6. Maybe the writer thought No, my writing is too good to pass for a five year old's?

Those letters are regularly sized apart from the odd rogue letter. My DS would not have written that neatly at that age, his finger spacing was still irregular and letters misshapen and not neatly placed. His spelling and punctuation would have been excellent though, so his attempt to look even weirder to adult eyes I'm sure...

I did think Key Stage 1 has free school meals, but a child might not know that and expect them to be paid for (although it wouldn't have crossed my kid's mind for a second, and if he did worry about the cost of his meals he wouldn't give money away). Why is a child that age writing in pen anyway, isn't it all pencil at that stage?

Haven’t read every response so this might have already been said but:
There’s no way a child wrote that. For a start, all children under 7 get universal free school meals, so saying mum has to pay for dinners isn’t true! Plus there’s no way a child would write like that and some of those spellings are just not how a 6 year old developing writer would write them.

I’m not sure a parent wrote it on their own, because the first thing my 6 year old would say if she was “found” from a post like this, would be, “I didn’t write it”, if she had nothing to do with it.

I can understand some of the spelling mistakes because although they learn phonics, they’re learning tricky words. My daughter knows roughly how to spell because but does forget the odd letter in it. Same as school, if she’s rushing she would forget an “o” out of “oo” because she hasn’t learnt that word phonetically. She’s learnt it by remembering for her spelling tests.

I agree the writing style is a bit strange, but my 6yo would also tape money to a letter. She did it for her grandparent because she heard they collect coins. She didn’t understand that 6p wasn’t really what they were looking for, but taped it down anyway. I didn’t know until they opened their Christmas card 😂.

It’s absolutely not a 6 year olds handwriting IMO and I say that as a ks1 teacher.
Kids don’t mis spell school like that. The spell it scool or skool or sckool.
The letters of a 6 year old attending a school in England won’t be formed like that. It’s come from an adult who learned to write in a different era and who is trying to disguise their writing. The flicks, tails and letter formation are all wrong.
I’m not sure what the motive is, but no 6 year old wrote this.

** The non address means it will “Blow up” with a “Search for Joe”

There is already a crowd funder and massive offers of free season tickets and kit &c**

^A crowdfunder? Ridiculous

@drpet49

** The non address means it will “Blow up” with a “Search for Joe”

There is already a crowd funder and massive offers of free season tickets and kit &c**

^A crowdfunder? Ridiculous

Blimey. A good scam for someone

Those letters are formed in a way that only seems to happen after you've been writing for a very long time and your hands naturally create those shapes. They're not written at all in the way a child that age is taught to write. Looks like an adult trying to write like a child but with no idea how and slipping up sometimes back into their natural style. Like the word food doesn't look the same as the rest and looks like adult writing. And the way "for" is written in "pay for my dinner" also looks like an adults writing.

Yea kids learn cursive at this age but it doesn't look anything like this.

They will have knows it will go viral and then they can step forward and get free tickets and god knows what else.
Well played though. Leaving off the postage stamps and return address is clever.

@Juliauns91

This is writing by someone of my generation - late 50s. Secondary Modern level education and a man in poor health. Perhaps Grandad. No doubt we will find out!

I'm a 58 year old old woman and for some reason it screamed older men to me too. That may be unconscious bias because it's football, but I definitely think the style looks like an older person.

I have two primary aged grandchildren and they are not taught to write like that.

I work in key stage one and I do not believe that has been written by a six year old.

@Spidey66

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.

This. Perfectly reasonable.