I'm hoping for a useful discussion about this prior to DD's Year 7 parents evening.
I teach Year 6, so I'm very aware of the requirements of the KS2 curriculum and what the current Year 7s had to do for SATS last year. DD has always done well at school - enjoyed maths, found it came quite naturally to her etc. She sat the level 6 paper at the end of KS2 but missed it by one mark, which was a pity but never mind.
She was put into the top set for maths in Year 7 and seems to cope fine with the work. Certainly, looking at her exercise book, there's nothing there that she can't do - and nothing different to what she was doing in Year 6. She concentrates and behaves well in school, homework done on time, 100% attendance.
However, when we had her report at Christmas, she was still assessed at level 5a, and then her report before Easter still had her at a 5a. So that's basically no measurable progress since this time last year. If I felt she'd just scraped a level 5 at KS2 then I would just see it as consolidation, but I know that she only just missed the level 6 last year.
So what conversation should I be having with her maths teacher at parents evening this week? Although I teach the year group below, I'm really not au fait with how secondaries work and what the expectations of the secondary curriculum really are. Any help would be very useful.
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roaringwater · 10/04/2016 09:30
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