At what age did your child start being taight "joined up writing"?

[ComeOVeneer]

DD is in year 1 and has recently been told she now has to complete all writing aand homework tasks in joined up writing. Although she is (according to her teacher) on a par with the most advanced children in year 2 , her handwriting is poor, now doing it joined means it is verging on illegible. Is this the usual age to start? Her teacher feels she should just perserver, but wouldn't mastering the basics more efficiently be better before moving on to more advanced techniques?

My dd started practising joined up writing part way through Yr 2 (ie, her current year group)

they teach it from the start at ds' school#

he is in reception and is writing joined up

he knows no different atm

started age 6 in primary 2. Now primary 3 (age 7) it is becoming legible.

dd1 was taught it from the start.

dd2, they have ditched that way of writing, and her writing is much neater.

year 3 with us, though DS struggles, he's a chip off the old block and will need to grow into his handwriting

From start of reception they do their letters with flicks and tails, then join up once they start writing complete words. DS1 nearing end of Yr1 has mastered it & getting neater every week.

my dd yr 1 has started joining some bits up, as they are taught their writing with little flicks on the ends, so she's havin a bash at it.

My school teaches it from Reception... letters are correctly formed as if they were joined up but written separately (start writing each letter at the line IYSWIM) then they are just encouraged to keep their pencil on the page and the letters become joined.

Get her to persevere... the reason they write joined up is so they can write a larger quantity of words in a shorter period of time. Dont worry about whether it is legible or not...us teachers are experts at deciphering scribble

So it isn't a case of learning to run before you can walk? I guess some people never master good handwriting (I blame her father ).

It is easier to learn joined up writing from the start. It prevents children reversing letters and means they don't have to relearn when they start learning to join from print.
Can you help her? Are you allowed to let her overwrite some of it so that you are sure she is forming her letters correctly?

dd is doing it in reception, i have my wn opinions on it..but dd can do it and like others say, knows no different..i collected mindee from nursery last week adn saw they were practicing it in there too!..it was on board, so maybe just teaching them to recognise the letters not write them!?

She will grow up to be a doctor, ComeOVeneer

year one

DD is in Year 1 and doesn't have to do it yet. The letters she is suppsed to form have tails, etc ready fr joining later. Thing they start it next year. Certainy the Y3 class I help out in there all write in joined up writing.

They learnt precursive in Reception and were joining by summer Year 1.

DS1 in reception and learning it - bloody hard to read tho'!

Reception (so aged 4 and 3 quarters)

I remember learning joined up in junior school so age 9 ish so thought it very weird.

i can't rememer but it was very young - and i can't see the poin in t miself actually

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YR2 at our school, his writing was atrocious for the whole of year 2 and now hey presto towards the end of YR2 it is lovely and neat and totally legible.

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There is research saying it's better to learn joined up right from the start. Quite a few schools do it. The point of joined-up writing is that you develop a flow to your writing and it is faster not to lift your pencil. A very practical, useful point.

I don't do joined up writing very often at all these days. I find that my handwriting is so much neater when not joined up. Don't find it any slower either.

well yes, but schools tend to go on research rather than individual anecdotes

Reception at my ds school