Low KS1 SATS results - am worried dd will struggle more in yr 3.

[paddingtonbear1]

Only just got dd's school report - they don't finish school until next Wednesday. For KS1 sats she got 1's across the board. It was what I was expecting tbh, as I've had various meetings with her teacher over the year, but I guess it's still a bit upsetting to see! dd is summer birthday and young for age, and has always struggled at school - both socially and academically. They won't keep her down a year and say they will give extra help in yr 3, but I'm not sure how much this will be. Has anyone else been in this situation? how did it work out?

You should know how much extra help she will get. How much extra help has she had in Y2? If she has an IEP or provision map, these should list the interventions that will be and have been put in place.

Ensure everything that can be done is happening. If she is reading at level 1 in Y3 I would expect individual reading daily, in addition to you reading with her at home PLUS other phonics / reading activities and/or groups.

I would expect suggestions for practical activities at home in maths, and would advise that you see the teacher regularly about things you can do as she progresses. Count money, add numbers together that you see in the street, do the same with take aways, sort pairs of items, share sweets, play board games and dice games. Practise all sums that make 10, and then 20. Try not to use online games too much as many of them can be won by constant mouse pressing!!

hi RollaCoasta, yes she has had an IEP for a while. Some of the goals on it she has reached, although not all. She's mainly had some extra help from the TA, and from what dd herself says, I think she went into yr 1 for phonics. Her teacher was a bit vague about exactly what help she'd get in yr 3, she just said there would be some! dh or I read every day with her at home, and also try and do some form of number work. We don't have as much time as we'd like as we both have to work. Are those Collins type workbooks any good?

I'd not use workbooks, quite honestly. Do things like: mum has 4 sweets, dad has 3 sweets, how many altogether. Can you write the sum? How many will we have altogether if we add two more... 3 more... if I take 6 away. That kind of thing.

On a car journey, count the yellow cars and red cars (for example - bit of writing needed there!), keep a tally. How many cars altogether... count some blue cars for a while (you could use a clock to time how long) - how many altogether now. What colour car is most popular / least / how many more / less?

Read big numbers on road signs. How many tens, units. Start saying tens and units as 'twenty add one' rather than twenty one, as I imagine she's having a problem with that. Write the numbers down.

She's need a white board and pen for the sums she's going to write!

Only the additions will be sums, Rolla!

Can tell it's the end of term, exhaustion must have set in

Ahhhhh, look at me, so tired I can't do smileys properly!

Some good advice from Rollacoaster there, op.

A pet bugbear of mine ( all but pedants. please ignore this post)

Additions are sums, everything else is a calculation!

I stand corrected ladies!

We do have a white board, dh is going to get some new pens for it Thanks v much for the advice. We changed dd's school 2/3 through yr 1, as her old school were v academic and just left her behind - they didn't seem to know what to do with her. When she started her new school she couldn't really read at all, so she has made some progress. She also finally had grommets a few weeks ago - she should have had them earlier we reckon, but the hospital wanted to wait and see! Her teacher seems to have noticed some difference she has had real problems in the past with concentration and listening to instructions.