No scores on end of Reception Report.

[minimathsmouse]

I have just received my son's (DS2) end of Reception Year report. Not only is most of the teacher assessment incorrect but it gives no scores.
From reading other threads I have deduced that almost all reports give a score from 1-9 in the various areas covered under EYFS.
I wondered if other parents from other schools had also received reports that do not include scores.
Also would be greatful if anyone has any ideas as to why some schools report scores and others don't.

I hadn't considered that the scores were for the benefit of the government and LEA in order to set targets. It seems wrong that this information is even collected in the first place, surely if children are assessed, that should be used to directly benefit them.

Do you think this new government will scrap all this assessment and untie teaching time, so that teachers can teach, instead of collecting data on their pupils for socio-political reasons. It might even allow them more time to report progress to parents, including adhoc discussions, more parent evenings anyone? just kidding thats precisely what teachers would really dread.

Mrz- thanks for that explanation. They summed up the 13 strands into the 6 areas of learning and gave a score out of 9 for each area of learning overall, which is why I was wondering what she might have got overall. I wonder why they didn't give us that info but gave us the other scores?

I was the one who said horrified, and I'm quite happy to own that as my personal opinion, and no-one else's. I'll return to the subject tomorrow. If no-one is too horrified.

Elibean

That said, they mark each subject 'below expectation' 'meets expectation' or 'exceeds expectation' based on national standards (from teachers' assessment and testing throughout the year). Which I imagine gives as good an idea as scores, no?

My DD's school has done the same. It was extremely confusing in a way as she scored 9s in everything apart from physical development and yet she got a summary of above expectations in some and meets expectation in others.

I am not fussed enough to go and enquire, but I did wonder what it meant....

I do not want scores!
What I would like is a report that is clear enough for everybody to understand if their child seem to be doing well at school according to the standards/criteria the school is using. And from the look of my child's report it is very clear that they are following to the letter EYFS profile. I would bet they have assigned a number to it too.
I would have liked an explanation of what the report meant. I only found it here in MN. I think this is not acceptable.
The school is putting my child in a category according to some criteria. I think it would be good to inform parents about this because not all of us are familiar to this. Without MN I would have never thought the report was telling me something about the level my child was at against those criteria. Sorry,
cannot explain myself better.

Forgot to say... I do not want scores if the school is not using scores. If they are, I prefer the information the school is working with about my child. As horrifying and laughable as this may be.

camaleon I agree.

We had the exceed expectations/meeting expectations. But it's only here that I found out that most of the commentary was cut and pasted from the level 9s.

I don't actually agree with this system but seen as it is being used, I think they should be more transparent with it.

Funnily enough, I read a school report from my DD's same teacher a few years back and it was handwritten. It was such a highly personal, lovely account of this little boy and his journey through his first year of schooling - a far cry from the "professionalised", highly technical wording used in my little girls' report.

Shame really that it has come to this at reception...

DS didn't get scores at the end of reception last year. Am surprised to find I am quite glad he didn't as I can imagine there would have been comparing of scores etc.

Am vaguely interested in whether DD will get scores next year as we havd moved house and hence school.

Yes, I'd be annoyed if I'd been given unexplained scores/figures. I haven't been given any figures/scores at all (and am still baffled by some of the ones I've seen posted here!) but the notes on dd's report are personal, and tbh they tell me that dd is doing ok in everything and better than ok in literacy, which is exactly what I would have expected. I know full well that her school will not be pigeon-holing her according to scores, so I'm not that bothered about figures written simply to fulfill LEA requirements.

I can imagine, if the situation were different, I might feel differently.

camaleon it's another anomaly of EYFS that schools are required by law to provide parents with a written summary of their child's progress against EYFS but they are required by law to report to the government only the profile scores

Just wanted to answer the OP to say that last year I had my ds' reception report and then about a week later had a separate envelope with his scores shown. Perhaps your school will do this.