Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
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Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
#2Look how neat that handwriting is. None of that nonsense scrawl they introduce in KS2 now (I believe Americans call it cursive)
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Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
#4Look how neat that handwriting is. None of that nonsense scrawl they introduce in KS2 now (I believe Americans call it cursive)
It looks like D'Nealian[1], which is designed as an introduction to handwriting that facilitates learning cursive.
Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
#5Look how neat that handwriting is. None of that nonsense scrawl they introduce in KS2 now (I believe Americans call it cursive)
Has it really changed? Or do we just not keep up with it outside of/after leaving school any more? I'm a bit younger than her and was certainly taught properly (in KS1, not 2, if my quick search is correct that KS2 starts at form/year/grade 3) - I just quite quickly stopped using it and now my writing is an only-half-joined-up 'nonsense scrawl'.
Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
#6Look how neat that handwriting is. None of that nonsense scrawl they introduce in KS2 now (I believe Americans call it cursive)
Has it really changed? Or do we just not keep up with it outside of/after leaving school any more? I'm a bit younger than her and was certainly taught properly (in KS1, not 2, if my quick search is correct that KS2 starts at form/year/grade 3) - I just quite quickly stopped using it and now my writing is an only-half-joined-up 'nonsense scrawl'.
My kids are in year 2 and 5. Year 5 had perfectly legible handwriting (not quite as good as the stuff in the image, but pretty good) until they forced the joined up shit starting in year 3.
Looking at other words on the wall confirms this is normal - writing goes back severely in KS2 because of this 1960s view that you have to be able to write large amounts of prose at speed.
Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
#7Look how neat that handwriting is. None of that nonsense scrawl they introduce in KS2 now (I believe Americans call it cursive)
In the US they've stopped teaching cursive, at least in some areas.
Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
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#9I wrote a message in a bottle when I was young. I still have very dim memories of being excited at the possibility that somebody in another country years later would find it. According to my folks, however, there were some issues. First, I was four years old and couldn't write, and second, I threw the bottle into a small pond. But my parents didn't want to dampen my enthusiasm at the time.
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#10I love when I do something that comes back around years later after I’ve almost completely forgotten it. Probably my coolest version of this was on a popular run/race in Arizona where I bumped into someone who remembered a software project I did a decade earlier. As I finished a segment, they gave me a high five and left a bewildered but soon amused runner behind.