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

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Looking at this?

Year 1 struggling a little

This is a sample of my Year 1 child's work. Middle of the class.
I'd say Nursery based on what you've posted.

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My year 1 child's work is very similar to what @FrodisCapering just posted.

On the spelling, the misspelling of 'weekend' surprises me as 'ee' is a relatively straightforward sound in phonics. While beach is correct, it also looks like it went through several iterations to get there based on the letter formation.

Anywhere from reception up to year 3, dependent on the child.

Nursery, as in age 3-4, writing full correctly-spelled sentences?

Reception or year 1?

I think it looks like it was done by a child of around 5. The only thing I’m unsure of is the spelling of beach which would be quite good for a 5 year old- however it looks like they took a few goes to get it right. They also haven’t got the ee in week so can’t be too solid with the ee/ea digraphs.

I'd say reception (although my eldest is in reception so I have no experience above 4 year olds!). Looks quite similar to my son's writing /spelling, who is 4.5.

There's lots of exemplification materials from schools / DfE online that might help.

I'd guess eyfs too. If they're younger and learning at home id get some handwriting books to try to encourage the correct capitalisation / letter formation before they get too used to doing it haphazardly. Id probably do that anyway tbh if they're willing!

Ignoring the handwriting I would have said a bit further through school because of the compound sentence, which my child's school were encouraging at the end of reception rather than term 2.

I hate these threads. Either the child is fairly average (so what's the point of the thread), gifted (in which case the OP will brag about their 18 month old is reading Harry Potter fluently), or the OP will realise that they're behind (in which case the teacher/keyworker should have already told them).

I would say the sample from @ FrodisCapering would actually also work for a year 2 child at start of term 2. The spelling in that one is totally spot on - a lot of year 2 kids would struggle with some of these words.

Late Nursery.

This.

As it’s only January year one.

Agree. It's a bit "rate my child" for my liking.

OP your child is a superstar whatever their skills are. Enjoy them!

It hugely depends on the child.

I have 2 boys, one nearly 13 one 6. The 6 yr old’s handwriting is genuinely better than the 13yr olds. 13 yr old has mild ADHD and has always had poor fine motor skills (mixes capitals, writes certain characters back to front) whereas the 6 yr old has always loved mark making and is advanced for his age.

Thet said the 13 yr old is obviously much better at descriptions, different writing styles etc which is what starts to count as they get older.

If you’re worried, speak to school and if they don’t take you seriously speak to them again. But generally these things come out in the wash as the kids get older.

Sooo...what's the answer?

That’s not a normal average year one child.

Age 4.

No idea. Why don't you tell us?! 😅

Age 5, probably Y1 or very good reception.

Now tell us OP!

Anything from 3 to 99, depending if there's a learning impairment.

Reception (top end) or a mid-Year 1. One writing lead in my primary school so see a lot of work for assessment purposes. About a quarter of our Reception children can write like this and most of our Year 1s (we are almost at the mid year point now). Although their handwriting is much smaller and 'sitting on the line' as that's expected.

Reception or a 4 year old in nursery. Around here they teach them cursive from nursery though.