Assessing Primary Writing 2019–2020: Year 6 exemplars
Earlier this week we released the results of our Year 6 judging window. For this window, pupils wrote a story in response to the following image prompt.
Pupils completed the task in controlled conditions to ensure the writing was independent. We have explained the reason for the change to a task prompt in a previous blog: put simply, our schools wanted us to set a specific task as it is harder to judge when everyone is doing something different!
Here are three samples from across the attainment range which show some of the variety of responses.
The writing age
As well as providing a scaled score and a WTS/EXS/GDS indicator, we provide a writing age too. In the table below we’ve typed up the first lines of scripts at different writing ages to give you a taste of how this works. We’ve also displayed these next to the year 2, 3, 4 & 5 first lines from our previous tasks.
Although the tasks are different, call on different skill sets, and present different challenges, you can still see that there are plenty of underlying similarities to make a comparison between them possible, and to make it possible to chart progress from one year to the next.
What’s next
Subscribers have already received their reports and a separate pdf with the 15 anchor scripts. The standard Assessing Primary Writing year is now complete, but we have introduced an optional extra Year 5 assessment which pupils can take part in from home. We’ve emailed subscribers about it and more details will follow on this blog.
You can judge anything you like at www.nomoremarking.com for FREE or subscribe now for Assessing Primary Writing 2020–2021 at www.nomoremarking.com
