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Minesatea
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Re: Withdraw from SATS

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Since David Walliams is DS2 current favourite author, I tried to persusde him to wear one of his sister's dresses for world book day, but he sadly refused. Apparently the all black Alec Ryder look was way more cool! :roll:
JamesDean
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Re: Withdraw from SATS

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minesatea wrote:Since David Walliams is DS2 current favourite author, I tried to persusde him to wear one of his sister's dresses for world book day, but he sadly refused.
I saw a post to DW on Twitter on World Book Day of a whole class of 'boys in a dress' - I wondered how many of them had brought their dress into school in a bag just in case no-one else dressed up! :lol:

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doodles
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Re: Withdraw from SATS

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In Waterstones today and a mum came in and asked for SATS practice papers for KS1. I just find this national testing of 7 year olds so sad :? By all means assess them within school to help identify any gaps or highlight if they need some specialist help, but really, what purpose does this blanket testing of 7 year olds really serve?
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad !
rosetta
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Re: Withdraw from SATS

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Here's David Crystal, no less, weighing into the 'what is 'good' grammar' debate:

http://david-crystal.blogspot.co.uk/201 ... -test.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And here is Dickens failing the SPaG test:

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

If only he'd had a Govian examiner to tell him how to use adverbs correctly! He might have written something half-decent! :roll:
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