Anyone with DCs in p3 in Scotland?

[loflo]

If so would you mind giving me some idea of where they are at academically? Cheers.

I'm very interested in this thread.

My DS is in P3.

Reading:
He's on the last stage of Storyworld (I think this is below average).

Writing:
he hates writing. I guess he can spell the easier common words (are, all, very, ...) but mispells harder words, even though he gets almost all of the weekly spellings correct (such as names of months, days of the week). He remembers capital letters and full stops, but gets confused with speech marks.

Maths:
He knows all his times tables, although he's not very quick at recalling the answers. He is starting to do division work. He understands the concept of division but is quite slow at working out the answer. He can do column addition and subtractions, he can do 80+40 in his head. He can't do fractions and is not very good with time (he needs to be reminded about the minute hand and the hour hand). I think this is average.

Is he doing very badly?

Anybody else wants to share?

My ds is also p3... really slipped down the ladder with reading in p3 - don't know why yet... in p2 had a reading age 3 yrs above actual age, now in the bottom reading group. Think he's still on storyworld, will check tomorrow.

Writing is good when he can be bothered to try. He's bottom group if spelling but I think he's actually ok at this, seems to understand silent p and silent w words and can spell them fairly well.

Very good mental maths, can do addition and subtraction into the hundreds and thousands on this. Times tables ok but struggles with 7 - mind you I still struggle with 7 and 8.

Generally I think he is average but comes across lower than this as he's a d
ay dreamer with not a huge amount of confidence to speak up in class.

Excuse my own typos!

Really interested to read this.

DD3 is in P3, in a P3/P4 composite class. Her teacher keeps telling me she is doing well, and "giving the P4's a run for their money".

She is still on Storyworld (last stage). The school insists each child reads every book though, so not sure how relevant that is, she reads chapter books confidently with lots of expression at home, and has done for as long as I can remember (not long, maybe a year? )

Her spelling is atrocious - which I am OK with, because she uses complex words confidently (though she always manages her spelling homework without difficulty).

Her times tables, OK-ish, but not as confident as I'd like. My fault though, we really don't practise as much as home as we did with the others.

I am hoping it is down to a crap school which we have no choice over, rather than anything else. School is resolute in it's opinion that achievement/progress irrelevant.

Are you worried about something OP?

DS has not had a good year in p3 he seems to have spent a year treading water and going over and over the same stuff. Despite being in the group which is making best progress he has only done 2 and 10 times tables and just wondered what was average for a p3. Thanks all.

Loflo - I also think my Ds has not had a great P3 - mainly treading water and I dont feel he's been making great progress - espcially in reading. But he has done all his times tables and now also on remainders and some basic division.

DD1 is in P3

Reading- haven't a clue what Storyworld is, her group have started doing "skinny novels" about 60 pages long, apparently they are reading at P4 level.

Writing - she's come on in leaps and bounds in P1 she really struggled and her writing was messy, now it's beautiful an adult would be proud of it

Maths - they have just started learning the 4 x table this week. Also doing division and multiplication.

DS is in P3. We don't have Storyworld, but he was on Oxford Reading (I think) and finished that in the first term. Now they do Accelerated Reading... read a book at home and then do a quiz at school when they want to. He tends to forget to do the quiz, so hasn't really made any progress.

I'm interested in the fact that so many are so far along in times tables! DS's class hasn't started them yet! They're still doing very easy subtraction sheets (that was on the last one that came home). He finishes in a couple minutes and always complains how easy they are.

Writing... they do one writing piece per week... news on a Monday. DS hates writing. Spelling is ok... his teacher was giving him harder words, but he hasn't had any new words in his jotter since January!

I think our school is way behind most of the others here. :(

DS is in P3 we just had a curriculum for excellence report for him. In literacy he's secure in the outcomes of level 1 numeracy he's secure in most of the outcomes at level 1. I don't really understand CforE so not sure what that means have a parents evening to discuss it soon.

Reading he's Reading chapter books and Big cat copper level. Times tables he's ok with the 1,2,3,4,5 and 10. For the others he'll not get them right but but he'll have a shot.

Maths they are doing numbers with 3 places eg 182-50 or 'what is 250+20'

For writing they have to use joined up writing where possible, and use punctuation. They are looking at things such as 'silent b' etc.
Writing is terrible. School thinks it's a issue with the mechanics of writing possibly dsygraphia. In comparison with the other children he's probably the worst at writing in his class. Spelling is ok but he does make mistakes especially with 'difficult' words.

My post is irrelevant as DS is in p1. But I really don't get the cirriculum for excellence at all. Seems all schools have different books etc. it's really hard to get a feel for where our child is at!

Sorry on phone and I pressed the wrong button. DS struggles with remembering to use punctuation but I don't know how much of that is down to how much he hates writing.

His class have not done fractions. For telling the time he's ok with half hour, quarter hour etc but struggles with the 5 minute intervals.

I'm basing all this on the report and his homework plus what he tells me he can do. So not sure where he is compared to rest of class.