Teaching handwriting effectively impacts the wider curriculum and the development of the whole child offering, among others the following benefits:

• When children can write autonomously they can concentrate on what to write rather than how to write so their ideas and writing content will improve.

• A significant impact on children's self-esteem, when they see beautiful writing which they have created with their own hand.

• The huge effect of good handwriting on children's motivation and enjoyment for writing.

• Develops a strong sense of pride.

• Where children have good handwriting, and are proud of how their work looks, they become far more meticulous about spelling, punctuation, grammar and their use of language.

• When children take care to produce beautiful work they are more likely to take care in other areas of their life – e.g care for resources, care for each other.

As a federation we use the achieving excellence in handwriting resources from Martin Harvey to teach handwriting.

This year we are having a big focus on handwriting, please see the attached policy for how we are currently teaching handwriting in school.