Age brackets in the Foundation stage.

[Georgieporgypuddinandpie]

Hello, just wondering if anybody's around who could demystify ds's end of preschool report for me.
I should add I'm not worried, neither am I convinced he's the next Einstein I'm just curious and a little confused.
Ok so firstly, his nemesis is fine motor control and writing, he was getting clear 30-50 scores, fine.... He left preschool aged 57 months so he's a bit behind, but we know this and are working on it.
Phonics got a secure 40-60 so this is age appropriate I assume?
Maths (observations had him working out multiplications, counting in tens and 2's naming 3D shapes and the 2D shapes that formed them) so this appears to be a strength but he didn't get a score at all... Any reason occur to you?
Everything else (this bit puzzles me most) he was getting marked as in between 30-50 and 40-60 months. This bit I don't get, with a crossover of ten months how can a child be working in between the two??
Would love to hear from those in the know, thank you.

Have you looked at the EYFS development matters document? If not googling it may help. There are separate sets of targets including 30-50, 40-60 and Early Learning Goals which are the targets for end of reception.

If your preschool's like ours they only look up to 40-60, so a secure 40-60 is the best they will give. Maybe they didn't even score maths as your DS is clearly well beyond that point?
I guess the in between means secure on 30-50 and doing some of the things in 40-60, agree it's a funny way to report it.

Yes that's probable cat, good point. I've looked at the document so I know roughly what comes in each age category it was just the in between marks that puzzled me. So it'd look like this:
X was getting frustrated in the block area as his tower kept falling over so Harry went over and suggested using larger blocks then helped him to find some.
22-36. 30-50. 0 40-60

At first I thought they were aiming for one or the other and sort of missed, but there were lots of them.
Surely a single incident would tick a box in one or the other category? Hmm

Oh well I've sort of drawn the conclusion that us mere mortals don't really need to worry about it, as long as his reception teacher understands it!

Yeah, wouldn't really think you can "score" an individual observation at all. IME the reception teachers will ignore it all and start again anyway!

Lol in reality that seems to be what happens at every stage I think. All information is carefully shared, then put the one side whilst they make their own mind up. Thanks for your input cat