--- title: Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic" — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"», a lesson of the english course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In Year 6 lots of children get the "Year 6 panic": tummy aches, bad sleep and scary thoughts like "I'll fail and go to a rubbish --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / Writing assessment and the "Year 6 pan… # Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic" Lesson 53 of the english course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/0/) — In Year 6 lots of children get the "Year 6 panic": tummy aches, bad sleep and scary thoughts like "I'll fail and go to a rubbish secondary!" - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/1/) — The truth is calmer: SATs mainly help show how well schools are teaching, and in most of England your secondary school place does not depend on your SATs results. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/2/) — Writing is not even a test on one day: your teacher looks at a collection of your work from across the year, so one bad piece does not ruin anything. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/3/) — Teachers check things like paragraphs, cohesion (ideas joined smoothly), punctuation and a range of sentence types: short and long, questions and exclamations. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/4/) — Picture Ruby crying at bedtime and her mum from Glasgow saying, "Wee lassie, it's no' the end o' the world" ("lassie" means girl): talking about the worry, sleeping, eating well and taking breaks help far more than worrying harder. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/5/) — Year 6 writing in England is assessed by the teacher from work across the year; there is no single writing exam. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/6/) — Writing is judged on things like paragraphs, cohesion, punctuation, spelling and a range of sentence types. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/7/) — Cohesion means a piece holds together: words like "however", "after that" and "as a result" link the ideas. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/8/) — SATs results mainly help show how schools are doing; in most of England, secondary school places do not depend on them. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/9/) — Some areas have grammar schools with their own separate entrance test, the 11-plus, which is not the SATs. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/10/) — Feeling worried before tests is very common; many classmates feel the same even if they look fine. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/12/) — Worrying more does not make revision work better. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/13/) — Revision games and quizzes are real practice, and they make it less stressful. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/14/) — SATs began in England in the 1990s; before that schools had other tests. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/15/) — Celebrating everyone's effort after SATs is good, because results are not the only thing that counts. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/16/) — Slang to know: in Liverpool "proper" means really and "our kid" means my brother or sister; Gen Alpha "it's giving doom" means "it feels like doom"; in Newcastle "divvent" means don't and "canny" means quite or nice. - ← previous: [SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/) - next →: [Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer/) - ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/)