My daughter is in Reception (turned 5 end November). We had a parents' evening in October, which mainly covered how she was settling, attitude to learning etc. We received a written report at Christmas, plotting her progress against each of the 17 Early Learning Goals as emerging, developing or secure.
The next parents' evening is in a fortnight's time, and we'd really like to come away from it with an understanding of how she is doing, both against government expectations, and also in terms of her own personal progress since her baseline assessment (the results of which have not been revealed to us to date). What specific information can we expect the teacher to provide, and how best should we ask for it?
A bit of background about DD: when she started at school she was already reading quite confidently, was slightly ahead with maths, and probably age-appropriate with writing. Her language, communication, reading and comprehension are her 'best things'. No problems with any social or self-care aspects.
The school have been accommodating with her reading - she chooses two books per week at an appropriate level for her (just moved up to lime). However, she never brings any maths or handwriting work home, so we don't really know what she's doing at school. We'd like to know that they have some sort of end-of-year goal for her, and that we can support what the school is doing to help her to reach or exceed their expectations.
Is it reasonable to ask for baseline data? All we know is that she was given 'secure' in 8 of the 17 early learning goals in December, but as this is for 40-60 months and she was already 61 months this doesn't feel terribly meaningful. What could/should we ask for?
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Parents' evening (Reception) - how to ask for evidence of progression
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Ginmummy1 · 08/03/2016 19:26
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