ASTON MANOR 
        ACADEMY
    SPRING TERM 2016
  Handwriting Competition
  Are you proud of 
  your handwriting? 
  Can you present 
  your work neatly 
   and accurately?
                                            Aston Manor Academy
                                         Handwriting Matters
          Getting ready to write                                       Checklist
           Are you sitting comfortably and determined to produce your best 
           work?                                                        Are you forming your letters correctly?
                     Head correct                                       Are any letters too tall or too short?
                    distance from paper           Are you holding your 
                                   Back slightly  pencil correctly?     Are the descenders of any letters too long or too curly?
                                   flexed forward
             Paper correctly                                            Is there any space between your letters?
               slanted
                                                                        Is there a space between your words?
           Non-writing hand                                             Are you making the four joins correctly?
             stabilises the 
             paper                                                      
                                                                           Diagonal joins to letters without ascending
                                                                        
                                                        Is your paper at   Horizontal join to letters without ascenders
                                                        the correct 
                                                        angle?          
                                                                           Diagonal join to letters with ascenders
                                             Bottom well back
                                               in the chair
                                                                        
                                                                           horizontal join to letters with ascenders
        Feet flat on the floor
         and slightly apart
                                         Ascenders: Letters that come above the line, for example: b, d, h, k, t 
                                         Descenders: Letters that come below the line, for example: f, g, j, p, q, y
  If the answer to these 
  questions is ‘YES,’ then 
   why not enter our 
    handwriting 
    competition?
  To enter:
  All you have to do is to choose one of the 
  following tasks and write it out in your 
  best handwriting, taking care to form your 
  letters neatly and join them together. You 
  must write using blue or black ink and 
  remember all of your punctuation!