Handwriting help.

[Gustavo1]

I have just been looking at my son's books and realised that he and his brother are joining their b at the top of the loop rather than from the bottom.
I have never seen this before! I’d appreciate anyone letting me know if this is a scheme that I can find and look at eg cursive or is it a random anomaly taught by their teacher?
thanks so much

Hmmm, DD does it from the bottom and I assumed that was the "correct" way, but I googled and it shows both. Maybe the top of the loop style is American?

There will be no random anomaly as you call it. Schools have agreed writing schemes to follow. Cursive script is taught from a much earlier age now than it used to be.

Is their handwriting policy on the school website? Check there!

thanks for the replies. I have looked online and the policy isn’t on the website.
I’ll ask in September what scheme they follow. He needs a little extra help with his handwriting so I was hoping to get on with it over the next couple of weeks. I was assuming it would be the cursive I’m familiar with with the joins at the bottom. I don’t want to confuse him so I will wait.

Honestly, OP, I wouldn't worry too much, cursive is a primary thing and falls away once SATs are done. My youngest DC is left handed and has struggled with handwriting as a result. He finds it so much easier to write without joining letters but keeps being pushed to do so. He has just finished Y5 and has yet to receive his 'pen licence' which is usually given out in Y4. They tend to settle with their own handwriting in due course.

It's easier for me to say this though as I have older Dc and handwriting has made little difference to them now almost out the other side of schooling.

I taught in a school that introduced a fully cursive style of handwriting across the board, from Reception to Y6.
Each entry stroke begins on the baseline so no confusion there.
The initiative met with much parental opposition but the children came up trumps with their beautiful script.
Nothing is new though. It is exactly as I was taught handwriting back in the 1950s.

I don't think the small b is written like that anymore. It is usually starting at top down back up to middle of line then clockwise semi circle going back to vertical line.

That's a printed 'b', not cursive. OP, it's probably your DC's confusion that means that you can't work out what he should be doing.
As for cursive being a Primary thing, no it's not. It's a way of writing quickly which secondary pupils need to be able to do, unless they do everything on a keyboard.

Yup, our school is like that. This is DD's handwriting having just finished reception

As long as it’s legible enough to be marked in an exam it’s fine.
Most adults’ handwriting is crap

If he needs help with his handwriting (generally) you can ask for him not to do any cursive lessons. I did this with my daughter as she found cursive really difficult to do. She’s 17 and her writing is way neater than mine, despite never having had to do cursive at school!