How schools should be teaching children to write - with Rosemary Sassoon

“I really dislike the word ‘neat’,” says Rosemary Sassoon. “We say to children – the work must be neat. But what is ‘neat’? It is a frightening word when you are a child.”

Sassoon knows a lot about handwriting: until her retirement, she was one of the world’s leading researchers into how and when a child should be writing. And she knows a lot about typefaces, too: she created one that is used in most classrooms – Primary Sassoon.

In this podcast, she details her views on cursive writing, font choice and teaching handwriting.

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