children's progress

[Thomas.Claire]

Hi,

Can I ask everyone,
If your child’s class teacher and senco have been asked to complete a questionnaire by a DR (for an assessment) on a child’s academic performance in maths, writing and reading (scoring your child from 1-5 - 1 being problematic, 3 average and 5 above average) and the school have scored your child a 3 on the questionnaire but you’ve recently had parents evening and your child’s most recent assessment scores (that you was given on parents evening) say your child is working towards in all areas would you mark the child as a 3 on the questionnaire the DR/psychologist has asked you to complete or would you score them a 2?

I'm very confused as I would of said to score a child as avaerage they would be 'working at' not 'working towards'

I will ask my little ones teacher and senco what they mean but I didn't want to go into the school all guns blazing "youve said T is average in their lessons but on their most recent assessment report you have said they're working towards this is very contradicting etc"

Thank you

I'd talk to school and ask why the two marks don't match - could they have misunderstood the scoring system on the Dr questionnaire?

@wonderstuff I wouldn't of thought so as it literally says scoring the child 1 to 5 with 1 being problematic, 3 being average and 5 being above average where would you school the child in maths, then the next question is the same but for writing, then the last question is the same but for reading x

I would score a 2 and I would go back to the school. Sometimes class teachers will fill these things in quickly and get it wrong - it's important that a) the Dr has an acurate understanding of whether progress is average or not and b) you know whether your child is keeping up with peers. It may be that the WT grade is normal for lots of children and the WA is actually where they should be at the end of the year, or maybe that your child is young and the WA/WT grade is linked to the year group attainment and younger children are often not at WA until later.. but from what you say it isn't clear why they are telling you your child is below expected progress but telling the Dr they are at expected progress.

It depends on how much progress your child is making. If they started the year low working towards and is gaining ground, I'd give a 3. If they were struggling to make progress, I'd give a 2 or 1. You need to speak to the teacher.

Should be a 2

@wonderstuff yeah totally understand but I would of thought the school would of had to score my little one as what they're currently and as they're working towards there's no evidence/proof to say they will be at the working at stage by the end of the year. Little one is in interventions for all subjects and the school haven't even said that on the questionnaire either. They've been in these interventions since around October but they've continued to fall behind (in October they was working at for all subjects and they put them in the interventions as they was on the lower side of working at now this term and since being in the interventions they are now working towards. I did think maybe they're working towards now because the school work gets more challenging through the year but being they're in interventions I've kind of thought well they're in them to help them with the current work and to bridge the gap but they've fallen further behind 🤷🏼‍♀️

@RamsayBoltonsConscience they've been in interventions for all subjects since October as they were on the lower side of working at but in the most recent assessments they've falling into working towards.

@DogsAndGin yeah this is where I would of scored them but then I'm not a teacher lol. I will raise it with my little ones school but wanted to get others thoughts/opinions first. I have dyslexia so didn't know if I was just not understanding/being stupid as to how they've scored differently between the two because of that x

It would appear from what you’ve said that your LO may well have additional learning needs if they are receiving interventions across the board and are WT. Can you request via the head for the Senco or Ed Psych to do a proper assessment on dyslexia etc