Last year we were told dd was extremely bright by her reception teacher. She was reading at yr2 levels by the end of the year and her maths was said to be even better. She was a fair way ahead of the rest of the class fwiw.
This year her reading continues to progress at a reasonable pace (although no thanks to school who don't differentiate much for her as far as I can see).
But the teacher's view of dd's maths seems strange. We were given a current level of 1b at parents eve last week. The teacher said her target for dd was maybe a 1a possibly one higher for the end of the year. At standard rates of progress she wouldn't even be a level 3 by the end of year 2. How can a child who was supposedly very able at maths now be so average? I know they can plateau at this age but surely not that much?
You might say what do levels matter but the work she is getting is not matching up with what she can do and is similar to what she could do easily a year ago. There is potentially an issue of her having got a bit bored/ complacent and making mistakes through not concentrating?
I don't have much faith in the teacher tbh - she is quite inexperienced whereas the one last year was very experienced and seemed to get dd. I heard last year there was an issue with some errors the current teacher made which I can't go into as it might identify me/ the school! And they might not be true anyway.
I hate to keep questioning the teacher (have had to about other things a couple of times and was proved right...) but this doesn't stack up to me. What can I do?