Helen Walls: Handwriting - the Old School Learning Hack!
Episode 18 of the School Shorts podcast, hosted by Melissa Chan-Green, titled "Helen Walls: Handwriting - the Old School Learning Hack!" was published on June 15, 2025 and runs 35 minutes.
June 15, 2025 ·35m · School Shorts
Summary
If your handwriting flows with ease it gives you more space to think, remember what you've learnt and helps with reading and writing! All amazing reasons why handwriting is so important yet it has been largely ignored in many classrooms. Helen Walls is on a mission to change that through her work as 'The Writing Teacher'.She says the impact of handwriting in education is undervalued but it is crucial for overall learning.Helen talks about the role of parents in supporting handwriting and shares details about the Great New Zealand Handwriting Challenge - a project that is aiming to make New Zealand students the best in the world at handwriting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode Description
If your handwriting flows with ease it gives you more space to think, remember what you've learnt and helps with reading and writing! All amazing reasons why handwriting is so important yet it has been largely ignored in many classrooms. Helen Walls is on a mission to change that through her work as 'The Writing Teacher'.
She says the impact of handwriting in education is undervalued but it is crucial for overall learning.
Helen talks about the role of parents in supporting handwriting and shares details about the Great New Zealand Handwriting Challenge - a project that is aiming to make New Zealand students the best in the world at handwriting.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.