Quick phonics/joined up writing question in year1

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DS2 is in reception and in his induction talks at the school they talked about letter formation and practising formation daily with the phonics they use that day. Each day a letter/letter combination came home for him to copy.

However, now he is being taught with the year 1 group and he gets a photocopy of the weeks phonics - they all show a 'joined up writing' font (phase 5 phonic list). I happened to meet his new teacher by chance the other day and remembered to ask her all the things I needed to know about what days he was now meant to be doing writing etc at home but completely forgot to ask if he is now meant to be doing joined up writing. He is doing writing in with the year 1 class so guess he will be doing the same as them.

Is it likely that he should now be learning to write joined up? Teacher did mention his letter formation had come on leaps and bounds after moving up.

I will obviously try and catch said teacher again, but as I pick up boys from after school club there are rarely staff still around.

My son is in Y1 and learns joined up. In Reception they teach print.

Other schools have different methods- some teach joined up in juniors where as others teach joined up in Reception.

Varies from school to school. In Y1 in our school, they will start joining up part way through the year.

I would guess different schools have different policies. In DC's schools they concentrate on print first. Children who can print well start doing some oined up from Y1 - the other children continue just with print. They all are doing joined from Y3.

I would imagine most of the alternative ways of representing the sounds he is being taught (phase 5) consist of two or three letters and learning them joined helps to reinforce the spelling pattern. Many schools teach digraphs as a joined unit even in reception.

yes its cursive writing in reception here

Ok, thanks all, I'll get him to join the next lot and write a note to the teacher to check thats what she expects.