Reception baseline

[Roseboss]

Hi ones , my daughter has started reception this September and she has done two baseline test . I am very shocked with her English score which is 15% and her math is 75 percent which is brilliant. I am not sure why the have done these tests when they did not teach the children yet and feeling so disappointed as my daughter is very good at reading spelling phonics and storytelling and I cannot understand why her score is very low for literacy, she might be shy during the test or not confident but I don't know what to do. Is it to early to judge

Aww bless you, English is my 2nd language too.
I started English Reception at an age where Italian children still go to the nursery and the only English I knew was "Please can I go to the toilet?"

It all worked out fine :)

When they start reception there is no expectation that they know any maths or Literacy so the score does not matter at all.

The purpose of the baseline tests is just to establish where they need to start to reach the end goal for that year. There is no pass or fail grade, there is no good or bad.

If they find that actually she knows more than they first thought then that's fine, they'll cover off the phonics and progress through them quicker than planned. If she needs more help they'll give her more help.

My DD is in year 2 and the kids in her class are all at very different levels in literacy and numeracy and the teacher differentiates for that giving easy, medium and hard worksheets as appropriate but covering the same content for everyone. For example they were doing lesser than and greater than in numeracy.

Easy worksheet had single digit numbers 1 is lesser than/greater than 2

Medium had double digit numbers 23 is lesser than/greater than 21

Hard had sums 2+6 is lesser than/greater than 1+4

even she knew her phonics , names but not the sounds

Phonics only has sounds, it doesn't have names - have you perhaps been teaching her letter names / the alphabet - rather than teaching her phonics, so she doesn't know?

In any case, it's completely normal for kids to know no phonics at all upon entering reception, lots of parents make no attempt to teach any of these academic things, it's what school is for.

Yes because She can read A B C D till end but for example in order to blend the words like cat she say c not k , c for cat so she needs to know phase 2 and phase 3 and phase4 as far as I know to read the words probably

I know but they asked us to work with them at home with flash cards so they can get better results next time because they are going to review the things that they expected from our children every 2 months so in November there is another meeting and in January they are going to tell us what is their observation results again so hopefully she can improve her skills till then !