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Welcome to the Write a Letter Week website (walw.co.uk); the web-based learning resource that you can access all year round, celebrating Write a Letter Week (22-28 February) - the only event of its kind in the UK, encouraging children and adults everywhere to take pride in practising their handwriting and embrace the many virtues of the handwritten letter. There are loads of great reasons why you should get involved, as focused handwriting practice is afforded increasingly less time in schools, with new subjects being added to an already busy timetable each year, and more emphasis continually placed on ICT. The latter has also played a part in the decline of the handwritten letter, as most children today opt for emails and texts when keeping in touch with friends and family.
But the keepsake value of a letter offers so much more in an educational sense, helping to create a mental picture of a figure from the past, assisting a child in piecing together historical events or providing the vital link in a family tree, all elements of the letter which support education and make history more relevant to children. The fact that they, too, could be creating a piece of history is a powerful thought.
