DD and her friend have been put in one of the lower abililty maths groups (3 of 4) at their new comprehensive. This has come to a surprise to us as they did well in their SATs-4a / 5-these weren't surprise scores, these were as expected over the time spent in primary.
I work in the school and I find these groups tend to have more challenging behaviour and lower expectations (which seem to lower as time goes on). Her group has also been given a NQT to teach them. Experienced teachers are teaching the top groups grrr
In my experience the groups aren't divided equally either, so the top sets will be rammed full whilst the lower sets have fewer children, so the opportunity to move groups is limited.
I am disappointed that her hard hasn't put her in 2/4.
It's not just her SATs result either, my knowledge of her and of the sets would have put her in the second from top group.
Clearly I have my view from working at the school which is one sided I suppose so any advice or experience is welcome.
DD isn't unhappy btw, I don't want to interfere and make the situation worse.