Year 9 Term 1 Report

[Marieaghafoor]

my daughter she's in year 9. I have received her Term 1 school progress report which consists following:

Learning behaviour

Progress descriptor

End of year 11 Grades

Learning behaviour are A and B I understand

Progress descriptor are exceeding and achieving understand

End of year 11 grades are 6 and 7 i want to know has she already achieved these grades or school think at the GCSE exam she will score 6 and 7.

She's my first child I don't have any experience before as my education was abroad. Your help and advice will make a big difference thank you

What did she get in her year 6 SATS? Her "target grade" will be what she should theoretically get based on SATS. Her "working at" grade is what she's achieving now based on the content that she's learned. So say she studied Shakespeare in English this term then she'd get a 6 on a Shakespeare question but she wouldn't get a 6 at GCSE because she's not done the other texts yet.

Her Sats were cancelled (Covid-19) school gave her outstanding in all no numbers.

In her class she in Top sets for all subjects

I would read 'End of y11 grades' as her current GCSE predictions based on where she is now.

Those are pretty solid. Would you describe her academic ability as 'fine/confident but not outstanding' as opposed to or 'generally finds schoolwork a struggle'?

If she is top half/quarter of top sets I would maybe expect higher predicted grades though that would depend on size of school etc.

Ours are what the child is predicted to achieve in their GCSE's based on how they're doing now. So the 6's and 7's are what they are expected to achieve in Yr11.

Target grade is what they are aimed for end y11 based on where they were at some point in time. This is slightly different from predicted which is what they are saying is their best guess he'll get.

You left the name in the Target Grade section of the image, you may like to ask MN to remove image.

Oh no 🙉

Click report post and MN will zap it

Thanks

So now that's sorted.
DC has targets of 6/7s, so that is broadly what they would expect when they did their assessments at some point.

If they are now 'achieving' it means they are 'on track' for those targets as far as they can see. If they are 'exceeding' it means they are doing better than expected (so may beat their targets).

At some point in y10 you'll probably get 'predicted' grades which is what they think DC will get. These may be the same, or above, or below current targets.

My DD1 had target of C for maths based on KS2 SATs. By the end of y11 she was 'predicted' an A (a bit of a stretch). She missed it by 6 marks and got a high B. My point being that hard work (or laziness) can mean targets can be beaten or missed.

Ohhhhh it make sense.

Thanks for your help.

@ teendivided there are some school youtube videos which also explain the Grades, they made me more confused.
I read again all your replies also discussed with my daughter. You are right. Thanks again

No probs. 6s and 7s would be nice solid grades and ok to progress to most A levels if that was what was wanted in the future.