Minister Cancels Leaked Primary Spelling Test

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-36108449

How on earth has this happened ? You would have thought that this would have been checked at least twice, if not three times, before publication !

[Old_Geezer]

Some folk can be far too serious ;-)

[fiction-factory]

Mikey- here's a sample paper for Key Stage 1 (may even be the one that should have been the official test)
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/440167/Sample_ks1_EnglishGPS_paper1_spelling_instructions.pdf

[Tilly2]

http://www.satspapers.org.uk/SATs_Papers/KS2_English/SATS_English_2015_KS2/2015_KS2_L6_EnglishGPS_paper3_spelling_PDFA.pdf

[fiction-factory]

Sorry- O_G- didn't realise you were saying it for the sake of it without really wanting clarification. Maybe if you include a "LOL" or similar I'd know

[fiction-factory]

I think it's the Key Stage 1 test that has been cancelled though, Tilly

[Tilly2]

It is FF but I thought, as you'd posted KS1, I'd also post KS2. :-)

[jno]

The administrator will say the word once, then read it within a sentence, then repeat the word a third time

just as well it's not an arithmetic test.

[mikey4444]

Thanks FF. The list of words don't seem to be too hard, as you would expect for a test aimed at 6-7 year olds ( if that is right ? )

MODEL might have cAught me out though.

....glad to see that bloody neccasaasry isn't included !

[fiction-factory]

Yes, I remember at primary school when we were doing spelling tests i would get annoyed when the teacher would say "I will repeat it only twice" but then only repeated it once. I suppose it was my OCD coming out even then.

[Cloverjo]

Does it really matter that it was published online? The children still have to know or remember how to spell the words. It would be different if it were a test for older ones where they have to write an essay or answer questions on particular topics.

[fiction-factory]

Maybe not, Cloverjo, but I think some schools or parents would have challenged the results saying others who had done that practice test recently were at an unfair advantage, and there may have been pressure to re-run the test

[Jackdaw33]

Them wot kant spel proply is ilegitimat, init?

[mikey4444]

JO...I think is does matter, for reasons that FF has given. Some parents will have gone the extra mile with this list of words and coached their kids.

Other parents may be unaware that the list was online at all !

This an almighty cock-up, and I hope somebodies head rolls for this. After all, this is the Ministry of Education, not the Ministry of Drains !

[ummmm]

People make mistakes.

[naomi24]

Mikey, //I hope somebodies head rolls for this.//

Whose head would you like to see roll? That of the nameless clerk who posted it?

[mikey4444]

Yes Ummm, they do, but this mistake shouldn't have happened. The website should have been checked and checked again, and then cleared for publication, and it obviously wasn't.

[naomi24]

Oh, Mikey, if only you were in charge - what a perfect world it would be.

[mikey4444]

No Naomi...But the Manager should have overseen the job of compiling the website. This was too serious a matter to be left to some junior clerical assistant, on little more than the living wage.

As the Teacher who first spotted this blunder said, "the mistake showed a lack of management" and she is right.

[mikey4444]

Naomi...imagine if you were in charge...how much more perfect again it would be !

[ummmm]

No mistakes should ever happen then