What do these grades mean? Year 7 progress check.

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I'm lost. Can someone please explain what this means: my dd has got results from a progress check and I have no idea if they are any good or if we need to support more etc.

English: 2.3. Target end of year 8: 3.3
Maths: 2.2. Target end of year 8: 3.3
Science 2.1. Target end of year 8: 3.3

What I want to know is, if at the end of year 8 DD hits these targets, will that determine GSCE predicted grades etc and what are they suggesting at this point.

I'm worried because they seem lower than the stats results might have suggested.

Thank you

That looks like a very school specific way of grading / recording. If they have failed to send you info on what it means (why do schools not do this??) then you'll need to contact his tutor or the school office. It might be on their website though?

Do they have any info on attitude or progress? If so then you can just infer stuff from SATs.
So SATs 100, progress as expected -> GCSEs 3-5
SATs 115+, progress as expected -> GCSE 7+

Schools all have different approaches to assessment in key stage 3. It is probably explained on the school's website or in a letter you received from the school or maybe at a parents meeting you missed. You may need to email the school to ask if you can't find it.

I found a report explanation on my DDs school website... it appears they grade them as if they were sitting gcses now...

DD had grades in the 1-2 ball park and gcse predicted grades as 6-7s.

That's all very well, but for things like History they won't have studied the topics so would find it hard to write anything.

The OP's one surely can't be that, if they are giving grades to decimal places...

Are you sure the target bit at the end is year 8 and not 7?

I would say the number at the front is the term and by the end you expect a 3 at the end

so she is ahead in English having met that, on target in maths as she is on a 2 and build up to 3 next term and behind in science as she is on a 1

but I would check with the school

Every school is different.

DD had target grades in Y7 and Y8 but they were not correlated to GCSE grades. From Y9 they have GCSE targets.

I would look more at the difference between the two scores for now, and maybe find out where the targets are for different kids. Is there a flightpath plan on the school website?

DD had a friend who is super-bright and high achieving, maths scholar and top sets for everything, so I just got DD to find out what her end of year target was and assumed that was what those kids aimed at top grades had been allocated.