Using a scribe in mock exams

[Nurseme]

Hi
Does anybody please have some advise on using a scribe for mock exams, my daughter as Dysgraphia which is mainly just poor handwriting and can struggle to put her thoughts down on paper but is more than happy to express them vocally! she uses a lap top in school and as extra time in exams, I asked for a scribe for her English which is where she struggles the most and they said the would put things in place for her mock exams next week, anyway I hadn't heard anything so got in touch with the school and it was agreed that she would use this scribe in her English, great I thought, SENCO then wanted to see her to explain what she would have to do and in doing so they have completely put her off saying she'll lose too many marks by having one!! So my daughter as now told them she does want a scribe. So disappointed as I think it may have helped her, even more disappointed that the school didn't even contact me they just let my daughter make that decision on her own without us parents even being told or asked anything can school do that...
hoping someone can give some advice.
thankyou

it sounds like she would be better using a laptop? They take off the spellcheck etc. if it is her usual way of working it should be no problem

You can lose SPAG marks with a laptop for English iirc .

The school has communicated with your DS and your DS has communicated to you that she doesn’t want to use a scribe.

What benefit do you think a scribe will have? The scribe cannot communicate with DS, will only be able to write what DS says. DS will be in a separate room with scribe and an invigilator. Whereas if she uses a laptop she will be with peers, probably all SEN together, and using a laptop’s which she is use to.

SPAG is marked no differently on a laptop.

This is a board for university lecturers, OP, you'll get more answers if you ask Mumsnet to move it to Secondary Education.

Hi yes I know a scribe cannot communicate with my daughter but she's more than capable of verbally of telling a story and describing a picture than she is getting it down on a laptop.
i just thought it would have been common manners, courtesy and respect for the school to have rang me to say they had spoken to her and explained the outcome.

Thankyou