[senco-forum] access arrangements

We are also struggling with SATs. However, one boy who wanted to have a

Also struggling- One of my lads with very low self esteem - never thinks he 
can read even tho he can simply decided to put his head on the desk and fall 
asleep during the reading test yesterday. As he is unmedicated ADHD that was 
preferable to any other reaction he mught have had. Look forward to the 
maths today- way hay!

annie
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From: <Anusianena at aol.com>
To: <jeanld at fish.co.uk>; <sfawcitt at dsl.pipex.com>
Cc: <richard_cook at blueyonder.co.uk>; <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [senco-forum] access arrangements - Rules for readers

> We are also struggling with SATs.  However, one boy who wanted to have  a 
> go
> at Science, with a reader and extra time, was allowed to do so , but is 
> not
> expected to suffer through literacy or maths - he is simply marked "B" for
> those  tests as working below Level 3.
> We all thought this year's Vesuvius and Pompeii themed reading tests for 
> Y6
> was one of the hardest we have seen.  We had 2 children in tears and one
> whose hand kept going up like a yoyo asking for help which I simply could 
> not
> give him.  remarkably, they still said at the end "you just have to do 
> your
> best".
>
> Well done kids everywhere. Shame on the system for continuing to inflict
> SATs.  I can promise you we did not learn a single new thing about our 
> chidlren
> that we did not know already - except that they don't know much about
> volcanoes, eruptions or pumice.
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> ANusia
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