Hand-right in is something that I feel very strongly about and some people worry about it overly but really I'd argue it's just the icing on the cake. Children do hand-right in for about 15 minutes every day. It starts first of all with children mark making. Some people will get a chubby pencil. Then they move on to a pencil with a pencil grip and a fine pencil and eventually when they've got really perfect hand-right in maybe something like this then they come to me and they get a year three pen but whoa three strikes of it and you're out. So let's try to work out how we get for mark making to this beautiful hand-right in. But the first thing is is to think about the letters. I want you to think about letters in terms of middle size letters, tall letters, low letters and the T which doesn't go really to the top of the line. Have a look at this. You might want to press pause just to have a focus and have a think. So here are the small letters and then the tall letters. Watch that T. Doesn't go to the top. The low letters and what are the tricky ones? Well first of all there's the bake bean. Not an O, not a zero but a baked bean. K is a different. Here's a year one K. We quickly get onto this K to help children join. Notice the flick and then obviously the F. This is a year two F. Joining is see we encourage children to join quite a lot and I put the wrong thing on the floor so let me just quickly so this baked bean really really really matters to me and what's key is that flick there. That helps children to join to the next letter. Children then also do the diagonal joins. Not flicks, join diagonally. I like my diagonal joins. We start in year one we consolidate it into year two. Children experiment with that. Not everyone picks it up. The lessons are taught systematically. You know already that in key stage one when children are ready they practice on these tram lines and that gets the letters, you know the tall letters right the middle letters in the middle one the low letters deep. Some common mistakes of these and the key there is that although these letters look right what's crucial is how the letters are formed. These are rainbows, these are upside down heels. They look right but it's teaching the children to form those letters correctly. So I joined up hand writing I love it but we don't join all letters. These are called the break letters and they're called break because when you can join to them when you get to them because your pen ends up going to the right your pen has to come off to form the next letter. Some children think they're a little bit clever and do g's or j's or why is that my mous and dad is do that too but the law terms your influences that we don't do that and this is maybe how it all looks. Pause that for a minute and have a good look. That's it all put together. You'll see your tea not going to the top your tall h a break letter and the member we don't join capitals. Don't join capitals letters up. If you were like me you would have been taught to write your name like that while well mean in dad please if your child was in nursery all the section model capitals and small letters for your child's name because that really is a good starting point. There's a lot of information there. Pause it. Come back to us. Ask us about more information. Enjoy. Remember hand writing is just the icing on the cake but together we can get children using these wonderful year print pens. Mr Wiekbao has given me some advice there. I've had you two hand writing and that's true. He was saying that when children are writing very very carefully they take slightly longer to get all of their writing correctly pulled but when you're doing that with a pen if you write slowly you'll see and I'm going to pause there you'll see that the hand writing bleep the pen bleep and then you start to get you start to get nasty marks which contaminate the page on the other side and we call that bleeding. In fact there's a whole range of skills associated with using a pen. It's different. A slightly different hand movement, a variety of different skills, children's hand writing starts to mess up they might make mistakes. That's a bit difficult for them. So we have this rule in the score about free strikes and you're out. So free, you know free beak muckups and then we'll give you a break from a pen and then we'll go back to that a little bit later on. The year 2 is really wanting me to talk to you about that.