Curriculum achievement levels - please recommend a website for explanation!

[MaggieW]

I want to look at curriculum achievment levels for KS1 and KS2. I've looked at the ones that I get when I google it, but they're incomprehensible and I can't find anywhere that just lists the levels in the order they're to be achieved and around what time they should be achieved. Can anyone help please?

[Iamnotminterested]

OK. The average child should be a 1a or 1b by the end of year 1 - this seems to vary from school to school. A child should then make a level of progress by the end of year 2, so if your child was a 1b for reading, writing and maths at the end of year 1 they should be a 2b at the end of year 2. They are then expected to make 2 levels of progress over the four years of KS2, hence a 2b at the end of year 2 should be a 4b - the requirement - at the end of year 6.

So - 1c, 1b, 1a, 2c, 2b, 2a, 3c, 3b, 3a, 4c, 4b, 4a, etc etc.

[MaggieW]

Thank you - that is very helpful. Why I was asking was because I am concerned DS, Y5, has stalled in progress. He was a 3 and 2 (where do they fit in?) at the end of Y3 and at end of Y4 a 3b across the board. In his latest report, last week, he's still a 3b across all subjects, so is he on course to finish Y6 as an average or to finish below average iyswim? Thanks again.

[snowball3]

If I read correctly, he is a 3B at the beginning of year 5, so in theory should be a 3a/4c by the end of year 5 and a 4b/4a by the end of year 6-so on the upper end of average!
You shouldn't expect to see much progress between the end of year 4 and now- a sublevel would be nice but teachers tend to be cautious this end of the school year! I'm assuming the end of yr 3 levels were 3(?c) for one subject and a 2 (a?) for another so a rise to a 3b would show steady if not huge progress. You do need to make sure he keeps up the progress, it is easy to slow down a little in year 5 but there is usually a big push in year 6 ( even though there shouldn't need to be!)

[MaggieW]

Thank you snowball. That's helped to clarify things!

[Iamnotminterested]

Agree with snowball; If you average out the progress expected in KS2 then, yes, a 3B at the end of year 4 would make sense.