School Reports - is this unusual

[SuitedandBooted]

My DS2 is 8 and his school report still has the same format as it did in previous years - basicly using 4 grades, from AA*, AA, A and BA. I've seen a lot of threads about sub-levels, how a child should progress from, say, a 2a to a 3b in the course of a year etc. There is NO detail like that in my son's report, so it is a bit hard to see if he is progressing properly. Is it common to have reports with so little detail? It's a very small school by the way,(under 100) so I think the teacher should have time to assess the kids properly!

All school reports are different. AA* etc sounds very meaningful. The school knows what level your child is - and have chosen to present it in this very meaningful way. Great.

Should have added that there are brief comments like "X clearly enjoys reading and spells well", but there are no progression levels given

I'd ask the class teacher how their grades correlate with the standard National Curriculum levels.