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

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Looking at this?

Right. Some of these replies are ridiculous 🙄

He's clearly in a very capable cohort. He might be middle of the road in terms of his class, but definitely not in terms of Year 1 expectations.

I'm also impressed you know where he falls in the class in terms of writing ability and how good all the other children are. Do you work in the class?

I think demographics make a huge difference. A friend teaches at a primary school nearby and her son is in the same class as DS. What is considered average in our children's school is considered advanced in her school. The only difference is the catchment area.

I said I thought it was a Reception child not Nursery. It also depends if it was guided writing with some words spelled for them or totally independent.

Edit: looking back at my post, I agreed with someone else who said Reception rather than saying it myself but I stand by that.

Did someone else draw the stick person on left side? It’s very different to the hand writing and unless an adult did it, I’m thinking the child who wrote this is much older perhaps but really struggles with writing and processing.

Im suggesting 9yrs old

Reception/year 1

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So what’s the answer, how old are they?

Almost 5hrs later

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Before I read on, I would say 4-5 with the writing but for some reason I think maybe a 6 year old who hasn't had the best teaching or much time or genuinely is struggling.

I know many kids struggle with writing/ reading but excel in other areas.

If there are SEN then obviously it's each to their own.

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Reception

I think not writing inside the lines is a red herring. Can they do that if asked?

Id say a child of 6-7 but have written this in a rush or through play. OR a 4 year old who has taken great care but just has poor pencil control.

It's odd in that there are finger spaces and full stops but then other elements seem very young, such as upper and lower case and then putting the full stop in a random place.

Another possibility is a 4 year old who actually had some help with this.

Reception. Maybe an older nursery child.

It's very strange how they know capital letters and put them in the middle of sentences. My DS1 wrote like that in y1 but DS2 more like nursery age. Especially the large form is more younger child. (Edited for typo)

Come back OP!

Reception

Come on then how old are they?

Aged about 5-6, could be 7?

Still in the preparatory writing stage according to Kroll, in which they are learning to form letters which is between 2-6 years old. Having analysed a lot of examples of writing development, this would usually feature in the examples from around 4 to 5 years old.

These annoy me, why does it matter what everyone thinks? I have a 5 yr old grandson that writes like that but also a 9 year old grandaughter. They are all different.

Why does the child have to have a SEN if older than year 1? Loads of kids (particularly boys) are slow to learn to write, especially when they were taught using cursive writing Surely they can’t all have SEN?
This was DS’s writing half way through year 1. In year 4 Covid lockdowns it was apparent that either he’d never been taught which letters had horizontal joins and which had vertical joins or it had completely passed over his head. His writing is still terrible now in year 9, especially if he’s rushing. All through primary we were told don’t worry some children are just slower to learn to write. In secondary they just throw them a laptop for exams if needed.

I’m a reception teacher as I wouldn’t be expecting children to be doing this at this point in the year so I would say Year 1.

I'd agree with PP who say the stick figure looks a lot more advanced than the writing. The drawing is better than my (dyslexic) son would ever have managed, the writing looks similar to him age about 6-7 I would think. Now uses technology for exams etc as a teenager and is very capable (but still can't draw at all and has awful handwriting).

No, I don't work there.
At the last parents ' evening his teacher told us that's about where he is. For example, some children aren't at the reading level he's at, but others are more advanced. He's solid middle.