AIBU to ask for help decoding this reception school report!!!!

[Worryingwombat]

When my eldest was is reception it was number grades in each area easy to understand!!

Today I have received my ds report and it is a 6page printed list of goals broken down in to 30-40months, 40 -60 months, ELG and ELG(Exc)

Each goal has been coloured green if secure? Orange if developing and red if emerging? Black if nothing achieved

Ok I get all that

But there is no code or guide of where the kids should be?? I guess they should have all of the month goals but should they have the ELG OR ELG(EXC) these perticular goals that codes again like

Mathematics M1a M1b and M2 same again for other areas!!???

So I might seem stupid but thought I would ask for help!! Anyone any ideas and how these goals relate to YEAR1???

Thank you x

I find that school reports are like a foreign language to me these days, and my youngest is in year 7 now.

When I was at school the report was a sheet of paper for each subject, where the teacher would have written their own comments relating to the particular child. It was still more or less like that when my eldest (now nearly 19 and at uni) started school.

Now it is all computerised, with coding and other stuff. It can be hard to understand. I preferred the more personal (if that is the right description) approach of the teacher's written comments, although I appreciate that maybe this old fashioned way was more labour intensive for them, especially in large schools with many students to comment on. It is just that I understood it, and I am always one of those who, rightly or wrongly, prefers "the devil I know".

Everything is target driven now, much of it set by the government of the day. Schools are no different. Much of this is imposed on them, I think.

I know what you mean Topseyt

Just a sentence with he's doing fine or needs improvement would be more help than this!! :)

At this point in the year, they should be somewhere within 40-60months...the ELG (early Learning Goals) is what they should be at by the end of the year - but sometimes they exceed the Goals (hence ELG exc)
Don't worry about ELG until the end of the year - you will get a report then telling you whether they are at the Expected level for ELG, or are Exceeding in it, or are just Emerging (which means they have just started to get there)
Not totally sure about 1a/b/2 - we don't have that, but all I can guess is that these are sublevels within in each area - so within 40-60 months they would either be at the beginning (1a?), halfway there (1b) or right at the end (2 - so pretty much at ELG)
Does that make sense?

And these don't relate to any levels in Year 1, as the National Curriculum kicks in then...but if they have achieved their ELG by the end of the year, they are fully on track for Year 1 - if they're exceeding, even better :)

Presumably it is not his end of year report, so at this point in the year we would probably want most children to be within/secure the 40-60 range if they are to achieve the Early Learning Goal at the end of the year. If they are secure/competent in 40-60 they will probably exceed the goal. It doesn't really relate to year 1 at all, except that they may use the information to set their own targets. Key Stage 1 uses a completely different assessment system. Just to complicate matters! That is a strange thing to give a parent to be honest, and rather meaningless. It is the sort of information all settings will have on the children, but for the teacher's own assessment/planning and for whole school target setting not to give to parents.

Jeeeesus, what is the point in a report like that?! Surely the whole point is to communicate properly with the parents/guardians? I'd make a point of going in and asking for a meeting to clarify what on earth it's all about. I feel cross on your behalf!!

For me the problem is that computerisation has made everything so faceless.

I preferred the more human nature of the "old fashioned" style reports where the teacher commented on each individual child. It meant so much more, or to the likes of me it did anyway.

My daughters' school reports are all computerised now. I don't even get paper copies anymore. I view them online and can see the attendance figures first of all. Then comes a table with several columns containing a list of their subjects. One column contains the grade they are currently working at, and another will contain something like their target grade, either for the end of the year, or for Key Stage 3, 4, GCSE or whatever. Another column contains a number which is intended to be a grade relating to their attitude to work, and yet another contains another grade relating to their behaviour.

There is no longer any commentary tailored to MY particular children. As I said, all very faceless. Maybe I am just an old dinosaur.

Thank you all so much

the report showed all the 40 -60 bar 1 he was secured (coloured green)

The ELG sections showed secured with five goal statements??? Showing developing or emerging

No ELC(exc) all written but in black

so I guess he is doing fine :) it just confused me so much!!!

No written report!! no advice just a print out!!
I gave no base of what to ask a parents eve!! I guess every parent will be asking for a full "what the chuff is all that print out about" explanation

Yup!

Go in and tell them, the report is not fit for purpose and you want a full explanation of every bit of it.

Don't wait for parents evening, ask for an appointment now.

Just giving this thread a little bump for Wombat to see she has a clever little boy who is counting on her.

And who is doing well (thanks to her).

Absolutely