Summary of issue: 

Usually it is preferred that the student writes their own name and age.  Parent’s love it because it shows their development over the years – as they like to keep the laminated prints.  Even with letters written back-to-front, it’s super cute – it’s authentic! 

Also, if paint has dripped over the section, or similar, and it’s a bit messy, that’s just what people expect on creations from their children.  It’s totally fine 🙂

Sometimes, we get an adult completing this in their neat handwriting – this is also totally fine.  It’s not quite like the student’s doing it – but it does look nice and of course, much younger children need help.

The issue is when the student might write their first name, and then an adult writes their family name – so we have two distinct styles of handwriting.   We scan and print this section, which means whatever is written there – will be printed.  We strongly recommend only one person fills out this section.

If you have 2 student’s in the same room, and both only write the same first name e.g. “James“, we recommend that you write their surnames on the back of the paper, just to make your life easier.