Hi, I would like some advice from someone, and see what they make of my situation. My child started secondary school at the beginning of September. After about a week she had a letter to say she needed extra reading lessons as her reading age was 8.5. She had a level 5 in language and knew she had scored really high at primary school. Of course I rang the school to be told by the receptionist that my child would benefit from these extra reading lessons(done by form 6 pupils). After several hours I did get a phone call from the deputy to say that it did not make sense that she was level 5, but was reading age 8.5. She advised me to ring the primary school to find out her actual reading age. I rang them, but the head was not there for several days so had to wait for an answer. In the meantime my daughter was really upset as she knew she had done well. Found out few days later that my daughter's reading age was 13.3. Rang the secondary school, who then telephoned me to apologise several days later.
My daughter had a level 4a in maths and scored above the national average in the tests she was given in Primary school. She has been set in maths this week in set 3, now doing work she was doing in year 4 in primary school. I contacted the school as I knew that mistakes did happen there! The maths teacher told me that they had given the children a test when they started and that my daughter had scored very low in that test. She explained that they added both the Primary test and secondary test marks together and gave her an average mark, which brought her average mark down considerably. She had a maths lesson today and she had to keep asking the teacher for more work as she was finishing the work before everybody else. Her primary teacher told me that she was the second best student he had in maths. Her friends obviously scored better than her in the secondary test has been put in the top set, despite them being not so good as her in primary school. I feel my child has been unfairly treated between everything. Do I sit back and hope for the best or do I do something about it??