Get a Free Writing Assessment for Your Child
Send a sample of your child's writing. Wendy reviews it personally and sends back a one-page assessment with strengths, weaknesses, your child's standard, suggestions for improvement, and a reference answer. No payment, no catch.
Why parents request a writing assessment first
A confident speaker is not always a confident writer. Writing is where the gap shows.
Many Hong Kong parents notice the same thing. Their child speaks English well at home, jokes around with classmates, watches English shows without subtitles. Then a school composition comes back with a grade that does not match. The writing reads younger than the speaker sounds.
That gap is real, and it is well documented. Conversational English develops within one to two years. Academic writing takes five to seven, sometimes longer for children studying through Cantonese at home. A short writing sample shows you exactly where your child is on that path, what is going well, and what to work on next.
That is the engine behind a good writing assessment. You are not paying a teacher to grade your child. You are inviting a teacher to point at the exact two or three things your child needs to work on before the next school task. A short, specific note beats a long, vague mark scheme every time.
If you would like to read more on the writing process before you submit, the improve writing tips page covers planning, drafting and revising for HK primary writers. Parents also find the grammar tips page useful when the assessment flags sentence-level issues.
Three steps. No payment.
Pick the writing task
Choose the task that fits your child's school year. Kindergarten, P1 to P3, P4 to P6 or Secondary.
Submit your child's work
Upload as a PDF, JPG, PNG, Word or Pages file. Or type the writing straight into the form if your child prefers a screen.
Wendy emails the feedback
Within a few working days you receive a one-page assessment plus a reference answer to compare against.
What you get back
The feedback is short by design. Parents and busy children read short feedback. Long feedback sits in the inbox.
Inside your one-page assessment
- Strengths. Two or three things your child is doing well, named clearly so you and your child both see them.
- Weaknesses. The two or three issues holding the writing back, in plain language.
- General standard. An honest read on where the writing sits for the year group.
- Suggestions for improvement. Specific, doable actions for the next piece of writing. Not a wishlist.
- A reference answer. A model response to the same task, so your child sees what good looks like for that year level.
A weekly tutor in HK runs HKD 600 to 1,200 a session. This level of structured feedback is what parents pay tutors for. Yours is free and arrives by email.
"The fastest way to improve a child's writing is to show them, on their own work, exactly what to keep doing and what to change."
Why a reference answer matters
Children improve faster when they see a model. Without one, "make it longer" or "use better words" land as vague advice. With a reference answer at the same level, your child reads through and thinks oh, I see what they did with that opening, I want to try that. Comparison teaches in a way criticism does not.
This is also why HK Speech Festival adjudicators recommend listening to professional poetry recordings as part of preparation. Models lift performance. The same logic applies to writing.
Want a sense of what real practice writing looks like in your child's year?
See One-to-One Writing →Step 1. Choose your child's writing task
Click the task that matches your child's school year. The PDF opens in your browser. Print it or read it on screen, whichever your child prefers.
Step 2. Send us your child's writing
Once your child has finished the task, send the writing through the submission form. PDF, JPG, PNG, Word or Pages files all work. Type the writing straight into the form if your child prefers a screen.
Ready to send the writing in?
Wendy reads every submission personally. You will receive your one-page assessment and reference answer by email within a few working days.
Submit Writing for Free Feedback →While you wait, parents tell us they get the most out of the assessment when they read it through with their child rather than passing the email along. The conversation that follows the feedback is where the real learning sits.
Practice writing at the standard schools assess
Each workbook arrives as an instant PDF. Print at home. Marking schemes included. Sample pages free before you buy. Single-family licence covers your siblings.