long and short writing paper 2009

mog · Post by **mog** » Thu May 14, 2009 4:08 pm

Hi

Can someone let me know what the long and short writing tasks were on this year?

clarendon · Post by **clarendon** » Thu May 14, 2009 4:51 pm

Hi I am Clarendon's daughter and I sat the test on Tuesday 12th May 2009 and I am in year 6.

Short Writing- The Short Writing was a description of a Busy Place. The options were A Market or A Busy Street or you could choose your own idea.

Long Writing- The Long Writing was a Report on Trainers. Some youths were asked to try out a new brand of trainersfor a week and had to write a report. Some points you could have included were-where they could be improved, good points and special features.

Ambridge · Post by **Ambridge** » Thu May 14, 2009 4:55 pm

Trust we are able to discuss this.....

The short writing piece was a description of either a market place, a shopping centre or something of your choice. My DD did a beach, her friend did a zoo and a few of the boys did a football match.

The long writing piece was a report on a pair of trainers you were given to try out. Commenting on how good they were for various sports (??), what they were like, how they could be improved (

thrilling ehh!).

Only the calculator maths paper left for tomorrow so almost there!

Ambridge

Ambridge · Post by **Ambridge** » Thu May 14, 2009 4:58 pm

Hi mini Clarendon,

Nice to hear from you.

It seems like my DD and you remembered the same - hope you are surviving this week, almost there now and then you are freeeeeee

until September when it all starts again!

Ambridge x

Marylou · Post by **Marylou** » Thu May 14, 2009 11:19 pm

Ambridge wrote:Commenting on how good they were for various sports (??)

DD told me that hers could be used for everything from sailing to rugby!

shuff · Post by **shuff** » Fri May 15, 2009 7:18 am

Anyone know how the writing test is scored; spelling, short writing, long, handwriting etc... and what is given to each?

Ambridge · Post by **Ambridge** » Fri May 15, 2009 8:08 am

Well, amazingly, and I am reading these scores from the front of an old SATS paper they are broken down as....

Long writing 31 marks
(Sentence structure and punc 8
(Text structure and organisation 8
(Composition and effect 12)
(Handwriting 3)

Short writing and spelling 19 marks
(Short task 12)
(Spelling 7)

Comprehensions (x2) 50 marks in total

Regards

Ambridge x

PS Just calculator maths today