DS is in P2 aged 7- they are asking them to write "interesting" sentences

[theoriginalandbestrookie]

We are in Scotland so my DS is in his second year of formal education, class age is 6-7.

They have recently started to receive written homework, quite a lot of it on a Monday night to complete by Friday. Fair enough, I make sure DS does it during the week but he finds writing quite hard and struggles taking a long time to complete sentences.

We went in for parents evening on Tuesday and the teacher told us that a lot of the focus is on writing interesting sentences with "wow" words that are more exciting for people to read.

I'm happy to be told I'm wrong, but it seems quite a lot of expectation for children that are getting to grips with writing as they did little writing in P1. Also his spelling isn't great but they don't seem to correct that.

Don't get me wrong, I write in my spare time so I think it's wonderful that children are getting help in this, but I just think it feels like running before they can walk.

I should probably go and speak to the teacher again, at the time it didn't sink in, but now it has and I can see how hard it is for DS who is trying to write neatly, form sentences correctly, spell correctly, then trying to make it exciting on top.

I would be keen to hear others thoughts.

[MammaMedusa]

Oh yes, not implying we are anything special... just trying to give another side to the picture that it is not all just us persuading them to regurgitate their thesauri in every sentence.

[MammaMedusa]

And my grammar got in a terrible knot there - time for bed before I damage the nation's children tomorrow!

[mrz]

Most schools don't teach children to use unnecessary adjective and adverbs which some posters seem to be suggesting MammaMedusa and I was trying to point out the methods you describe are far more common.

[MammaMedusa]

Yes, think we are on the same wavelength - I was very tired last night! Husband away so too many 5:30 am starts to get everything done...