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Curriculum area · Impact Team

✍️ Handwriting.

Legible, fluent and well-presented handwriting across the school. The Handwriting Impact Team owns Write Right · Transcription, with a clear pencil-grip-to-cursive progression and daily practice.

Long-term plan

Curriculum at a glance

How the Handwriting curriculum is sequenced across Cosmos Primary — from Nursery through Grade 5. Units are grouped by stage and shown with their term placement and strand.

StageUnitTermStrand
Nursery–UKGGross motor → fine motor warm-upsMotor
Pencil grip & letter pre-strokesFoundations
Letter families · printFormation
Grade 1Entry & exit strokesPre-cursive
Sizing & spacingPresentation
Grade 2–3Joining diagonally & horizontallyCursive
Speed & fluency drillsCursive
Grade 4–5Personal hand & staminaCursive
Pen licence & presentationPresentation