What age was the child that wrote this (pic)

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What she would you say the child was that wrote this?

Anything obviously show?

9

8/9 years old and she definitely needs support if she’s in year 7 and can’t spell simple words like “knife”. Although the ideas and the writing itself is neat, I would push for support now. I’m shocked the teacher is marking the work and can’t see that this child is not working at the normal level

I think you dd has lovely handwriting. More worried about the teachers marking than anything you daughter has written tbh!

do you have other concerns about your DD it's difficult to see from one piece of work? Her handwriting seems legible but maybe she finds spelling and punctuation tricky.
She has better handwriting than i do (i have a couple of learning difficulties) but that's not to say there's nothing wrong or that there is something wrong.

Even the green isn't good though - they've written of instead of off in the 2nd para. And only corrected cackled once (the second time).

And encouraged repetition by inserting a 'loudly' after cackled the second time it's used.

And not corrected to capitals on all the proper nouns that are missing them.

Not corrected other wrong spellings - hollding (!)

And taking a second look, that of/off shouldn't be there at all, she's written 'bit a chunk out of it', and it's been changed to 'bit of a chunk out of it'

To be honest, it's not a great y7 sample, but by no means the worst. Her writing shows plausible phonic use and her inaccuracies, e.g. raped for wrapped are logical mistakes. I appreciate if you have a dc with needs already you would be concerned, but this would fall within parameters for a child of her age. Having said that, phonic and reading practice should be encouraged (the reading to develop the knowledge of how words 'look' rather than just vocabulary, as she clearly has a good vocab already).

I think it’s recommended practice for teachers now not to correct every single error, for fear of depressing and putting off the pupil.

But yeah, am horrified at the teacher’s lack of skills.

And yes, op, I’d push for help and support for your dc. My dc is in Year 7 and they are expected to produce higher quality pieces of work.

I have no idea what the point of the exercise is, though - ‘working towards GCSE’ - in Year 7?!

11 perhaps with dyslexic tendencies.

I’d encourage her to read as widely as possible, and maybe get her some English practice books from e.g. schofield & Sims.

People think an 8 year old wrote this??? Wow. That would be one smart cookie at 8.

My two daughters and ex husband have dyslexia. Has your child been assessed for dyslexia? Teachers will say ah, she's not dyslexic or if she is its only mild, or in the case of my eldest ah, it's only because she is learning everything through the medium of Irish that she's so bad at spelling and reading. Eldest got special accommodations in her state exams & has just finished her second year of a four year university course. I dread to think what would have happened if she had not been diagnosed and helped in primary and to a lesser extent secondary school.

Looks like something dd2 would have written at 10/11/12 she's dyslexic. Good news is made huge improvements during secondary and passed English GCSE with a 5

The fact it mentions GCSE exam at the top of the page is a bit of a give away. It looks like secondary school age child with perhaps some learning issues? Age 13/14/15?

Ignore the posters that say 7; the content is way too mature for a 7 year old. I'm a teacher and people saying 7 are merely stealth boasting (I suspect not entirely truthfully) about how amazing their DC are.

I'd have given 10-11 but a poor speller before I read your answer (although parts of it look more like secondary work than primary). It's certainly not disastrous for a Y7 but they may need some extra help with phonics and grammar.

I would have said about age 7 based on spelling but older based on the handwriting.

OP has already said year 7, so child would be 11/12.

People are guessing 8 years old?

Tries hard not to start worrying about my Y4 8 year old’s writing ...

Your DD needs a better English teacher.

I have taught year 4 UK and am assuming you’re looking for honest answers, I would have said a bottom set 8 year old by what has been written, the spelling and the teacher’s comments. I would be asking for support if this was my child in Year 7. Hope you find what you need OP

I teach plenty of 16 YOs who can't write this well.

However in the MN spirit I'm going to say 5, but my 5 YO wouldn't make all those mistakes.

I'm an English teacher (Head of English) and the standard of this work is absolutely typical of a year 7 child (age 11/12). Please don't worry OP! For the record to those questioning , the teacher has marked in green and the child has edited and revised in red. SAT results are highly over inflated due to class teachers bending the rules and 'prompting' student to give accurace answers; unfortunately, when that student is left to work independently in secondary school, the 'true' standard of the child's ability begins to shine through.

I’ve taught huge numbers of year 9s who can’t write as well as this. OP you are getting a ‘mumsnet answer’ here.

You’re right to think this probably isn’t top set year 7 work although it’s impossible to say from such a small sample if there are learning needs.

I would have said yr7 as well, handwriting is good, and the gcse mention!

Keep chipping away at the school for help with spelling, otherwise I suspect she will slip by without help.

Thank you for all, her spelling is really poor she writes just seen she also writes (weeckend - weekend)

She used to do her 'S' etc back to front but seems to of corrected that now though her capital Y is always back to front.

She a august born so primary always put everything down to that.

Oldest Dd has dyslexia, dyscaluclia, working memory, slow processing etc etc