If your school gives you the foundation stage points score, do they also explain what this means?

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As above really..

Our reception children came home with their reports on Monday. Lovely, detailed write-up of how they are getting on plus their learning diaries which have the foundation stage profile stuck into them along with a ticklist for the 9 points in each of the 13 sections, as well as loads of examples of their work, post-its of conversatione etc.

As I understand it from MN achieving point 6 in each section is "average" for the end of reception. It does not say this anywhere in the report though.

Last night a few parents met up for a drink and ended up discussing the reports. Some were genuinely concerned that some boxes were unticked and the children had got say 7 and 8 ticked but not 9's. They thought this meant the children hadn't hit their target for reception which is clearly not the case.

Does your school include the scores, and if so, any explanation of what is expected from reception aged children? How would you word it without scaring those whose children hadn't got 6's...?

Yes we get the scores and an explanation of results. It is fairly general 9 is beyond what is expected, level 1-3 below level expected for early years, 4-8 from early years goals but do not have to be achieved in order.

Ds' was very mixed as i had been warned to expect, it also included a statement of concern about the area where he is weak. This says that this area will be revieweed in December with a view to placing him on school action if necessary. The teacher had already told me to expect this and I know where he has problems so it was nothing to be scared of.

There is no correlation between DDs scores and the comments in her written report. I found a profiling sheet on line which coupled with my own observations and the comments would give her a much higher score than advised.
I was originally concerned because she was scored below average for the class(we were told what the highest lowest and average scores were). Some areas I would have expected lowish scores she is the youngest child in the class and is not as socially confident as some of her peers but, in other places I am surprised with the scores she was given.
Worried about this initially but have thought about it some more and decided that its not worth losing sleep over and that actually she is doing really well!

BTW we had absolutely no explanation of how the profiling was done and agree that this kind of information would have been really helpful.