How do you know if your child is + material and what age do they start to mark work in primary.

She comes as 1a, that is average its not specific..I dont know how low or high she is and what to work for?

sorry I am just in shock here...and tryng to understand

And is this across the board or will this grade be given ...for each subject?

I am really that they have done away with normal grades.

I mean - she is B in English I know where she is and what to work for....

she is D in Maths, I know that is a weak subject for her?

Have all schools done away with normal grades? When the new curriculum comes in will this stay the same?

OK JUST Looked it up, so if she is at 1a, that's average..

I am a little thrown.

1a means she is understanding her work?

It says all children expected to reach level 4.

how do we know how well they are doing?

That she is achieving what she should be.

What level is she and what is it that you want to know?

Ok so if she is level 1a, what does that tell me?

By the end of year one, she should be working at about level 1a. That would be average.

By the end of year two she should be at a level 2b. You can look up national curriculum levels online.

OK....struggling to understand!

So how do I know how well she is doing. Is levelling the new word for grade then or marking

so in Year 1 for instance she writes a super story, how do we know how w`ell she has done

They will not get grades with letters until they take gcses. Until then, it will be national curriculum levels.

Ahhh that's true backforgood

OP - work is marked from early on. The children won't be given a grade for the work directly, until maybe some pieces in y6, as the NC levels are about a range of stuff that is judged over time. Even at secondary many pieces are marked but not levelled. You however can expect to be given NC grades for maths/reading/writing/science by end y2 and yearly or more frequently after that.
DD1 is in y10, and now gets 'GCSE grades' against work, but only when they are actually GCSE questions they are practicing.

Being given a level/grade can be counterproductive, as then the child focuses on that rather than the teacher comments which say how to improve.

11+ no experience as luckily we don't have it here, but from what I can gather from mumsnet they should be working in top ~20% (general grammars, or top ~5% (super selectives).

We get team points Back.

Thanks Teen.

They mark work properly from when work is first produced

You need to google national curriculum levels .
You will start hearing about them (eg in reports) in year 1.

By end y2 they aim children to be at level 2.
By end year 6 they aim children to be at at least level 4, around 30%? will be at level 5 and some will be at level 6.

Each level has sub levels where c is the lower and a is the higher.

Progress is not linear, slow starters can catch up, early aheads can level off.

Avoid 11+ nonsense and move to area with good comprehensives such as many parts of Hampshire.