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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.

Vocabulary & reading spine

Words we teach, books we read

Vocabulary is metacognitive — the language of how we write, not what we write about.

GradeTier 2 vocabularyTier 3 vocabularySuggested reading
Nurseryhold · aroundpencil grip · circle
  • Pencil Pete · activity bookPre-writing patterns.
LKGcurve · straightbaseline · stroke
  • Dot & SquiggleLines as character.
UKGsame · differentascender · descender
  • Alphabet Books · school collectionLetter recognition + formation.
Grade 1size · spacex-height · entry stroke
  • I Can Write · workbooksDaily formation practice.
Grade 2join · flowdiagonal join · horizontal join
  • Joining workbooks · Write RightSchool-authored joining sets.
Grade 3neat · speedcursive · loop
  • Cursive practice · Letter familiesDaily 5-minute practice.
Grade 4consistent · fluentslope · rhythm
  • Handwriting heroes · profilesFamous handwriters and signatures.
Grade 5personal · staminapen licence · presentation
  • Beautiful Books · class scrapbookPupils’ best work, published.