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?

Handwriting is lovely however!

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She needs an assessment

Does she read much, OP?

Thing is with people saying 'no way is it a 7 year old' etc, it can vary so much. I said 7-11 because I've taught 7 year olds who absolutely could write like this (and better) but I've also taught 11 year olds who struggle to write their own name.

What does the school say about how she's doing?

Is this the first piece of work in year 7?

If so I'd say it's pretty typical, especially given the long holidays beforehand.

quite surprised to see WALT still making an appearance though

I am not very familiar with children this age, so take my reply with a huge pinch of salt.

But, as a dyslexic aged 34 who teaches English Lit students aged 18-21, I am rather surprised people think the spelling is so very bad. I was doing things like 'black' spelt 'blak' well into my teens.

How old is she?

I can never understand why people answer 'how old is the child' with 'they are in year x'. Sorry OP, not getting at you but it's one of my absolute pet hates on here.

Also I'm trying to work out what's wrong with the teachers marking?

I'd have said yr 5/6. I'm a SENCO, might be worth discussing her spelling and vocab skills but based on this piece of work, I wouldn't say an EHCP is needed.

I can never understand why people answer 'how old is the child' with 'they are in year x'.

Totally agree, does my head in! I’m not familiar with the English system. Just say she’s 8 or 15 or whatever.

No, I wasn't giving a MN answer by saying age 8. I was basing it on the fact that a lot of the Y3s whose work I've seen looks similar, and encouraging use of adjectives and adverbs plays a big part in their work in Y3. For all I know it looks like a lot of Y4 and Y5's work as well, but I'm not familiar with those years yet.

Don't be dismissive and say it's a "Mumsnet answer" just because it's different from the 8 year olds you know.

OP I hope your DD gets whatever support she might need.

OP has your child also been assed for dyslexia like their sibling?

assessed

Year 7 is 11/ 12 years old.

Butterflywings37 no she hasn't, to be honest the school is s right struggle and I've been asking them since she started to take a look especially given the fact that older Dd needs were missed/ignored for so long

OP you need to gather evidence

Look at her reports - any mention lazy / bad spelling / not focused / doesn’t hand in homework / refuses to read out loud etc

Photo copy her work

Compared homework to school work etc

Then go and see the SENCO

Print out dyslexia information. See PP

The content is quite dark, is that not more a reason to be concerned?

I also find it confusing with year xx, we are not all in England. I’m in Scotland but would say age xx rather than the primary year.

School years are plus 5

Year 7 is 12

Or there abouts

I don’t know many 7 year olds who would have that kind of handwriting! Dd is 8 almost 9, her writing is v neat for her age and spelling probably similar to this BUT aim not sure she’d lay it out as well if that makes sense?

Ds is 12 and quite bright - his spelling would be better I think but the structure and handwriting especially would be massively worse. He has possible dyspraxia though.

DS is 8, his vocab is better but writing far worse. Spelling probably about the same.

This is interesting because I had a meeting in DS1's primary school (he's year 4) a few weeks ago, senco was present, due to his terrible spelling of even basic words. They told me that the school does not correct spelling mistakes if they are phonetically correct. At all. The idea, apparently is that the children will just learn by exposure to the words through reading.
I asked what would happen if they don't, will they intervene at any point, if for example if in year 6 he's still spelling phonetically and they just sort of shrugged.
I thought it was bonkers, but maybe it is 'a thing' now.

The teacher has not corrected a lot of spelling errors, and the 'of' a chunk is appalling.
I do think OP your DD needs help and may have additional needs.

I thought Y7 as well based on my older children who all got A’s and B’s in English GCSE. I can’t believe people are guessing 8 - not helpful at all. The spelling isn’t great so yes I would speak to the teacher. The content and style seem fine though.

10-14 years old

OP this work is months old. Why are you showing it now? Have they made progress?

8 years old?? You’re all having a laugh!

I would have said mid ability in writing year 7, the content is quite limited and the spelling is consistently iffy.