Nursery teacher has completely undersold DC in report - do I say something?

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I pick my nephew up from nursery school everyday. He is taught by a qualified teacher and turns 4 in August. He received his report today and his teacher has given him the levels 40-60b for everything. However, I think this is far from correct. He can do sums with numbers up to 20. He draws pictures of people with ten features and background details in his pictures. He can do 100 piece puzzles in a few minutes. He can tell the time more so than his seven year old sister. He can spell around ten words and write most letters clearly and do on.

I would say he's brighter than my 5 yo who I was told in her report is exceeding in everything at school. His nursery teacher has never seemed to take to him and I feel like she's done him a disservice by giving him these levels. Would I/my sister being wrong to query it?

OP, how are the wee ones social skills etc.

And to those thinking it's unreasonable that the OP read the wee ones report - we all read the children's reports. The first weekend after they've been given out and we have our usual family lunch the reports are read by everyone. We love doing it.

Does he enjoy nursery?
Can he play with other dc?
Can he take turns?
Does he get asked to parties?

These are much more important skills.

If they grade him against the early learning goals now it makes it so hard to show progress as he goes into reception. How does he fair with the prime areas?

Is he aiming towards the kind of private pre-prep which might require better results as entry criteria? If not, I would let it go. Save the stress for GCSEs.

This reminds me of a conversation I over heard in nursery when my youngest was there.

"That's lovely that he can count to ten in French but he needs to do it in English for us to be able to assess him for the reports"

I don't agree with reports until they start school be that Reception or year 1. It's madness really.

Does your sister or sil know that you've read the report? I think that may be a bigger problem for you right now OP!

I'm forever telling 5yo ds not to be in a hurry to grow up, to have fun, to enjoy being young, enjoy school and try his very best. I don't understand the need to test and push and test again children so young. Social skills are more important at that age. My ds is broadly average I would guess, but his general knowledge of the world around him is absolutely amazing because he loves it and has a zest for life. That's much more important imo.

For goodness sake!
He's your nephew, butt out.
He's three years old.
Why were you reading his report?
You sound like the Auntie from Hell, over-invested and god help him and his parents if you think your behaviour is appropriate.
I'd be seriously questioning your involvement in his life if I was his parent; your involvement potentially could wreck this child's life if he's going to have to answer to you; he'll never be good enough for you.

Fuck me, do people who really give a shit about what happens before they even get to school? I hardly think that what is on his nursery report is going to hinder his ability to be a brain surgeon later in life.

I'm a teacher, DS starts school next year and I haven't done any real academic work with him. He can count, recognises letters, but hasn't done any writing yet, and I haven't even started him reading himself. Because I know for a fact that the bright ones in kinder rarely stay that way in primary school. They might have been pushed as a young child, but they will generally level out with their peers when they get through the first couple of years of school. I hate seeing young children coming to school knowing "everything" and the parent who loves to tell you about it, then the child just settles in and the rest of the class catch up, and the parent is annoyed that their little Dougie Howser is no longer all that exceptional.

So bizarre op, what sort of levels at nursery. Forget it, he is 4. Looks like the scrutiny starts now. My ds is 4.7 years, dev delayed and his report he was 3-3.5 development. I would be happy how he is op.

"Undersold"?

Come on, he's a three year old kid!

I read my Nephew's reports and discuss them with him. He is 12 and I ask him if I can read them he syas yes. we discuss them. (He has slipped in Year 7 from 1/2s to 2/3s)
And yes, I read them when he was in primary.

Why is that a bad thing??

Though I think P1nkP0ppy's post was quite ridiculously harsh. "Potentially wreck the child's life?" Don't be such an arse.

Also, I think most of you are being quite unfair to OP with regards to her nephew. She clearly is a big part of his life if she is picking him up every day from nursery. I'm guessing she sees a lot of him.

So imo, it would be weird if she took no interest in him and how his nursery/school/whatever is going.

There is no need to query the report, I agree. But she is allowed to be involved and interested in his life!

He may not do the things you know he can at nursery.

My DS2's nursery couldn't assess his speech AT ALL as he just didn't speak.

Believe me, this was not the case at home. Couldn't shut him up.

Do agree with other posters that it doesn't really matter at all and just let him be little for a while.

I don't think the OP is being unreasonable to want to give her nephew the best start when he goes to primary school. Especially since he's going to be one of the youngest when he starts. Teachers have to get to know up to 32 kids really quickly, so obviously they are going to use the nursery reports as a starting point when they are getting to know them.
When you speak to the teacher (if you have any getting to know you sessions) show some examples of his work, especially drawings, so that they can see what his abilities are. But other than that, let him settle in and then perhaps you or his parents meet with the teacher a month in to talk about him in more detail. He won't get bored though. There'll be so many new experiences and people for him.