A Small Confidence Boost

DD1 (11) is going to secondary school in September (her choice).

For a bit of fun, she's doing the 2018 KS2 SATs just to see where she lies (for her/my benefit - this won't be passed to the school). This morning she did the two SPAG papers, not in "exam conditions" as such, but I wouldn't let her ask or look up the answers, until she had finished. We just marked them together and she got a raw score of 38 marks, which has an adjusted score of 100. (100 is the expected standard at the end of Yr6.) She is rightly pleased and I feel proud of her!

Given that we unschool, we certainly haven't been teaching-to-the-test, or spending hours learning what fronted adverbials or co-ordinating conjunctions are. We've not done a spelling test, nor have I specifically taught where apostrophes, commas or colons are meant to go in sentences. Though she was a very early reader, DD1 hates reading, preferring to spend her time dancing, singing, making up songs on the keyboard and watching youtube. Yet, she has still managed to reach the expected English level of a schooled child, without being forcefed an education.

We have a dance festival to go to the next couple of days, and will hopefully find time to do the reading, the maths and the reasoning papers next week.