Wrong Spellings - How unfair is that?

[KatieMac]

My DD (7 on Sunday) - always works hard on her spellings. On Tuesday night she knew all 16 ready to be tested on 10 on Wednesday.

When she sat her spelling test - they tested her on the wrong spellings.

My DH collected yesterday and was really surprised/shocked that she only got 5 out of ten - she normally gets 10. DD was really upset 'cos she got the worng spellings and didn't know them.

Eventually it turns out that she moved desk on Friday (so that she sits with her friend rather than yr4 boys) and they 'forgot' and just tested her on the words her new table had been given last week.

I went in today and asked if she could be retested on the spellings she had learnt and the substitute teacher said yes no problem - Of course she should be allowed to prove that she had learnt them. TA then said 'was she[ta] supposed to go round each child and make sure that they were doing their own spellings??' and that yesterdays mark is the one that will go on her records.

Today she got 10 out of 10 - but on her record it will show 5 out of 10

That's not fair

[edam]

Oh no . Did they try to explain to dd or say sorry?

[KatieMac]

Substitute teacher (who wasn't even there yesterday) did but TA thinks it's her own fault

[Spanna2]

As a teacher I find this completely mad!......whatever happened to a FAIR test.....not a level playing field then......like saying to a GCSE pupil I know you revised for Geog World but in fact you've got to take Geog Britain and that's that!!! Ridiculous! Your DD must be good anyhow if she got 5 out of 10 and hadn't even learnt them!!!

[zephyrcat]

that's ridiculous! You should talk to the head. Someone i used to work with said her daughter spent a whole weekend learning spellings and she got one wrong in the test so she had to stay in all breaktime. How demoralising is it for the poor kids when the teachers mess them about like that??

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

Why ON EARTH are they going to put the results of an incorrect spelling test on her record?

Ask them to think outside of the box and leave it blank .

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

BTW, the TA DOES NOT have the final say!

[Hulababy]

Definitely unfair Your poor DD. Can you speak to the teacher or head of year?

If they really are being horrid about this - can you give yor DD a treat instead?

[JanH]

I don't think "records" matter that much, KatieMac - of course it's not fair, and I'm glad somebody apologised to her, but after having seen 4 kids through 7 years of primary school @ 2 parents' evenings per year each (56 parent-teacher meetings ) I can honestly say that spelling test marks were never showed or mentioned.

Agree with spanna that she did very well to get 5 out of 10 on new words.

[emmatmg]

I'd be spitting mad if this happened to my kiddies.

That so really unfair.

[KatieMac]

never mind - she is SO excited about her b'day party - I'm not sure she even remembers the wrong spellings now.....

I'm an idiot by the way - we are
Swimming
Making Pizza
Doing Hama Beads
Making Ice cream Sundaes
all in 4 hrs for her b'day