Teachers - as a guidance, what level is this writing?

[Bunnyjo]

DD wanted to write a story about the hot (ha!) weather and what she would do. She wrote the following.

The degrees is 34 in Sypres (Cyprus). You go there in a areoplane. You can play with a beach ball and you can play with freinds or your familay. It is fun to go in the sea and to go in and watch some telly (!). You can go and buy some hot dogs and eat them and walk back to the sea. When you have finished you can go on a boat in the sea then go back home on a areoplane to Carlise (Carlisle). It is colder then the degrees is 25.

Obviously only a small piece of writing, she is going into Yr1 in Sept. Should I be encouraging anything, or just carry on letting her be creative? and obsessive about how much colder the UK is compared to Cyprus

Leave her be, she's writing beautifully for a 5 year old. Encourage, yes, but not fussing about levels. What is her letter formation and orientation like?
Is there going to be a continuous pattern of these threads appearing now?
This is the second one in less than 12 hours.

Letter formation and orientation are both really good. Punctuation wise, she always uses capital letters and full stops (no other punctuation yet). Occasionally she does start words in the middle of sentences with capital letters. She scored 9's in her CLL on the EYFS, but the teacher said in the end of year report that DD needed to push herself further in her writing tasks and not do 'just enough'.

Sorry, didn't realise there was other threads. Was just after a second opinion as I think DD is doing amazingly. I probably should have explained what her teacher said and why I was after guidance.

Sh is doing amazingly, why not just enjoy and encourage different forms of writing?
Or work on a different area of development?

And, yes, level was the wrong word. I don't need, or want, to know the level per se, just that she is writing appropriately for her age/yr group.

Your DD is doing very well as compared to her peers, as you clearly know, but perhaps her teacher is saying that she feels that your DD could be doing more? I'd see this as a good thing, having a v bright DD myself, because my experience has been that the teachers have just said she's doing brilliantly when to me it's clear she's putting barely any effort in. Whatever level they are at you want them to be making an effort and making progress. It's almost irrelevant how they compare to others or what level they are at iyswim.

She is writing appropriately, and well

Have a good holiday!

She has done an acrostic poem about the olympics and reads daily (her choice). She's also done some sums and is loving playing on the BBC's KS1 bitesize games. Personally, I think the area she needs to work on most is her physical skills - she still uses walls to stop and has absolutely no spatial awareness at times, as her 14mth old brother is finding out to his detriment!

Thank you all. Yes, cutegorilla, I think you have a good point there and it is encouraging that the teacher can see when she is not applying herself fully. She is very intelligent, the academic (and social) skills come very naturally to her. But, there is a risk she could do just what is asked rather than that little bit extra.

Hi - exTA here -

I've worked with plenty of Yr3 or Yr4 children who couldn't write anything like as well as that -

but it all depends on the home environment and what support and encouragement they get at home. Many of our kids got no support at all, and in some instances parents themselves could barely read or write!

There is a whole different world out there, besides the MN world!

Thank you Ferguson, as parents we are supportive of her learning and encourage her, although DH did just shout 'Mummy?!'when DD explained the meaning of alliteration to him but are conscious that encouragement can quickly cross the line into being pushy.

All the work she has done over the holidays has been of her own accord - I do encourage her to read daily, but that's it and plenty enough IMO at her age.

Bunnyjo, your pride in your dd is bursting out of your posts

Nothing wrong with being proud of your child!

I am proud of her, Elibean, and thank you.

Bril. I could not have written that until I was 10

Sounds like my ds BUT bear in mind they do find the physical act of writing tiring so you may well get "the bare minimum" in school. A term into y1 & I felt that all children seemed to find the physical task of writing a lot easier & therefore more able to concentrate on varying vocab, punctuation, quantity etc.