handwriting in Y2

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DS is 6 and in year 2. doing fine at school and I am a pretty easy going non pushy parent. We take it easy and simple does DS.

However, his CT us awfully critical of his handwriting. too messy, too small, not neat enough and it started bothering DS.

I don't want to start practicing hand writing at home as this kills his joy of writing but then maybe I should esp as he gets upset about the teacher's comments. I never had this problem with my older DC.

So, is the class teacher just super fuzzy or is his handwriting for a 6 year old really that bad. Have attached a pic of spellings her had to learn over the weekend. Even if he writes longer texts, his writing is of the same quality (or lack of). It looks actually lovely to me

Could it be that the writing is not on the prescribed style that the school teaches? It looks pretty impressive for a 6 year old to me however the style and shape of the letters looks quite "old fashioned" compared to most children's writing?

It’s lovely writing. The only thing I would say, is that the ‘e’ letter isn’t clear so I would be tempted to have a word about that but otherwise, lovely and looks like an older child’s writing I would say.