how easy/hard is it to receive a level 9 on EYFS?

[mrsshears]

I ask because my dd who has just turned 5 has been graded as 8's in everything apart from reading,linking sounds and letters and numbers as labels and for counting where she got 9's.
I'm surprised dd hasnt been given 9's in language for com and thinking,writing,calculating and shape,space and measurement as imo she reliably does all of the things needed for a 9 in these subjects.
therefore i have been wondering in reality how easy/hard is it to get a 9?
thanks in advance

I expect my child's report to be a summary of how the teacher perceives my child, not how I perceive my child. I expect it to reflect what my child has or hasn't done in school, how they have or haven't interracted with their peers, not what the should or could have done in school or how they could have interracted with their peers. I know my children intimately, but I don't really have a fair idea of how they behave in a class full of 30 specific children, so I can hardly write their reports for them... I also don't expect their next teacher to follow, slavishly, the opinions in the report of the teacher in the year below, particularly when the summer holidays span such a long time and children, particularly young children, develop over that time and change. Yes of course there is a risk of children being labelled unfairly throughout their school career and treated in a particular way, if they make a particularly unfortunate start; or marked down as not very good at a subject when the real problem is a lack of social/emotional skills and confidence, etc, etc, but that really isn't the case if your child has 8s for everything in their EYFS report.

Are these scores really that important?
If they were so important, surly every school would include them in the progress report?
are these scores one and only reliable indication of child future progress in future?
I for one don't have a clue were my DD is on that 4 to 9 thing, it was not included in the report, so I just presumed I didn't need to know.
mrsshears in your OP your little one report sounds as a very positive one, I would say relax and enjoy she is clearly doing very well.

stictlovingmum - fair enough, but if the school had put on the report that your DD was achieving a 5 would you have had any curiosity at all to find out what that meant?

yespiprabbit by all means if curious go and have a chat with the teacher,
unlikely it would change anything.
OP post states little girl is scoring 8's not 5's and is clearly doing very well, so pardon me for thinking there is no real reason for concern.