Nearly half on track at age 11 not making grade at 16.

[noexcuses]

I was surprised to read that only 55% of those who leave primary school with Level 4 at KS2 get 5 'good' GCSE's in the new league tables news report. Doesn't this conflict with all the GCSE's are getting easier and everyone gets A's stories we hear?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16721884

I'm not surprised, a lot of the time it's about teaching to the test to get good results in the school at SATS time, not about individual children's achievements. A lot of children are pushed too early and too far, resulting in the decline at high school. Too much too young.

Leaving primary school at Level 4 is hardly an example of children being pushed too early. A significant proportion of DC's class left with Level 5 AND this is from a Let-Children-Be-Children homework-is-bad state primary school.

So, it doesn't surprise me to read that only 55% of those who leave primary school with Level 4 at KS2 get 5 'good' GCSE's.

level 4 equates to gaining a D grade in GCSE according to all the data we are given.

The headlines have made me really angry as it is suggesting that secondary needs to pull up from primary and that ALL students should be achieving C grades when in reality, there are a large number of students who no matter what teaching/how long etc are never going to have the ability to achieve a C grade; this is human nature. But of course, this month is 'teacher bashing time' with a lot of what has come from the DoE....

cricket This statistic is about kids getting from average to average as I read it. The kids where quality of teaching probably cannot outweigh other actors are surely those without a level 4 at KS2 - 94% of whom do not get a grade C at GCSE?

What data says L4 equates to a D? I thought it equated to a C?

NoExcuses - the big difference between kids at primary school and kids at secondary school is drugs and drink :) Lots of teenagers choose to be unteachable.

FACTORS not actors

Indigo stop scaring me DS is still at primary.