The model used was Tom Gourdie's Simple Modern Hand. He was brought to Brisbane as a constultant to advise the Education Department, which is the State government department which decides on the curriculum taught in Queensland State Schools. Fifteen years ago she was a school teacher who was interested in handwriting, and she won a Churchill Scholarship to study with Tom Gourdie and others in Britain. She acteed as a consultant to the Education Department while the new style was being trialed and introduced. She wrote a series of handwriting books for school students.
Some teachers do up photocopied sheeets instead of asking children to buy textboooks.
As I said, the Italic style is based on Gourdie's. After several years the money was diverted into other curriculum areas. The specialist Handwriting Resource Teachers who had offered advice, and produced resources and taught seminars for teachers, were put back into normal classroom teaching. It was at this stage that I was asked to help out. I am a Registered Teacher - I had been a high school science teacher before I had children, and I had since become interested in calligraphy, and I had spent many hours helping make classroom charts for my son's teachers.