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Jack is in Year 6 (age 10-11).

His handwriting matches the model quite well, but you will see that it looks as though it has been ‘drawn’ fairly slowly and deliberately.

Some of the pupils in Year 5 are already much more confident and more fluid in their handwriting than is Jack. Which is entirely normal!

Children develop different motor skills/cognitive skills at different rates! Any given child will progress rapidly at some times, and make only very slow progress at others.
Our individual genomes, diets, family circumstances, and the times/intensities with which we suffer illnesses all vary, and each one of these things impacts upon our development. You can be a ‘whizz-kid’ in one term, and a real ‘slow coach’ in the next. Some kids zoom ahead but ‘plateau’ early; others start slow but become sudden ‘late bloomers’.
Others develop at a fairly constant rate - but those rates ARE ALL DIFFERENT.
Kids can be brilliant at e.g. maths and terrible at languages, or the other way around, or good at only one thing, bad at only one thing, etc.

’One Size’ most definitely DOESN’T ‘fit all’!

THIS is why we train people for several years BEFORE we let them teach in our schools.

Do you remember how ‘easy’ it was trying to home-school your own child/children during the Covid pandemic lockdown(s)?
Now imagine trying to teach several different sets of groups of thirty+ of Other People’s children; children that you don’t love unconditionally!
Now imagine trying to do that day, every day, for the whole of your working life.