help
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:41 pm
My middle daughter takes hers in September but the primary school she in has been appalling about it. No preparation for the tests, we have done it all with her and when the grammar school at the open evening said "oh yes all the practice tests have been sent out and you all know how you got on by now", we thought what practice tests?
Our school did nothing and I mean nothing with them and so after me ringing and pestering them they gave them to my daughter and the 5 other children (very small village school) who wanted to take it on the very last day of term!!! No supervision, they had to do it in the coffee lounge on the floor at the coffee tables, in 40 mins, while the rest of the school had a last day party in the hall next door. My daughter managed to score 57/100 and it wasn’t double checked, just marked by a teaching assistant. Oh yes and they only had time to do the verbal reasoning and didn’t bother with the non verbal one!!
It is appalling and I don't know where to take it, there is a new head teacher starting September and I feel slightly sorry her because I am going to descend on the first day of term!!!
I think that I'm going to take it to the LEA, and then have to contact the grammar as they said she could do it in the proper conditions there if the school was difficult, of course the last day of term was way too late to get the ball rolling.
Now I'm just a bit worried as she takes the first one on Sept 15 which only a week after going back to school
Our school did nothing and I mean nothing with them and so after me ringing and pestering them they gave them to my daughter and the 5 other children (very small village school) who wanted to take it on the very last day of term!!! No supervision, they had to do it in the coffee lounge on the floor at the coffee tables, in 40 mins, while the rest of the school had a last day party in the hall next door. My daughter managed to score 57/100 and it wasn’t double checked, just marked by a teaching assistant. Oh yes and they only had time to do the verbal reasoning and didn’t bother with the non verbal one!!
It is appalling and I don't know where to take it, there is a new head teacher starting September and I feel slightly sorry her because I am going to descend on the first day of term!!!
I think that I'm going to take it to the LEA, and then have to contact the grammar as they said she could do it in the proper conditions there if the school was difficult, of course the last day of term was way too late to get the ball rolling.
Now I'm just a bit worried as she takes the first one on Sept 15 which only a week after going back to school