Maths again

[inthename]

I've got a meeting with ds maths teacher (Yr 7 prep school) to review his progress (may remember they shifted him down a group at the beginning of this term) Hes just had an assessment and been told hes a level 5b, would a teacher mind telling me if this is ok for this point in year 7 or if I should still be concerned.

[lottysmum]

I'm not a teacher but sounds fine ....not sure what group he is in ...but top sets in Yr 7 tend to work at level 6/7 (even an 8 in my DD's class)....but I would have thought a midstream child would be working at around 4/5....

[noblegiraffe]

It's ok for a comp, if he was hoping to get say a B at GCSE.

For a prep school where he is presumably working towards high-powered entry exams? I don't know.

[inthename]

Hes working towards CE, typical pass mark for the schools we've looked at is 55% at level 2 or 3.
Been difficult as school only has two maths groups, the 'top' group and the 'middle/bottom' group
School moved him from top to the middle/bottom group at the start of this term.
He was at 4a at the end of yr 6.
English and Science are both level 7, which confused me more!

[DeWe]

I'm guessing 5b would be just above expected level in year 7. As 4b is expected level at the end of year 6, and so 2 sub levels up would be 5c. So it would be okay.

My dd1 is top set at a comprehensive and the best ones were around level 7b at this point in year 7 (7a by the end of the year), but the teacher did say they were a particularly good set, so I don't know if that is usual.
The top end at juniors would be predicted a level 5b at the end of year 5-probably around 10% of the year, again a standard state school.