How it works
- Add names. Type one name, or paste your class list with one name per line.
- Choose the handwriting your school teaches: print, or your state’s style.
- Pick a size and rows. The sheet on the right updates as you go.
- Download and print. Every name is its own page in one A4 PDF.
Your state’s handwriting
Australian states each teach their own handwriting model, so a k, an f or a join can look different in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart. The NSW, QLD, VIC, SA and TAS styles here are modelled on those school hands. Children learn their name best in the letters they see every day, so pick the style that matches your classroom.
Teaching a child to write their name
Capital first, then lower case
Children see their name with a capital letter and lower-case letters on their locker and their books. Type the name exactly as you want it practised, or set Capital letters to “Capital first”.
Little and often
A few rows a day works better than a whole page at once. Slip the sheet into a plastic sleeve and use a whiteboard marker to practise again.
In the Australian Curriculum
- Before schoolWriting their own name is often a child’s first meaningful writing, part of Early Years Learning Framework Outcome 5.
- FoundationForming most upper-case and lower-case letters using learnt formations (AC9EFLY08).
- FoundationLearning that capital letters are used for names (AC9EFLA09).
Many children meet name writing in the year before school, so Foundation teachers often start Term 1 by looking at how each child already writes their name. Note which letters start at the bottom or are made in an unusual order, and print a sheet that focuses on those.
Use the same handwriting style the school teaches for everything else. A name learnt in one style and then relearnt in another costs a child extra effort in Foundation.
Summarised in our own words from the Australian Curriculum: English, Version 9.0 (ACARA) and the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia, V2.0.
