Are there any colours after lime in NC reading scheme? Copper?

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Hi - are there any colour bands after lime in the NC reading scheme? My friends whose children are older scoff and say no but my daughter is adament she's moving up a level to "copper" this week. I can't find this anywhere on Dr Google!

I'm not too pushed as she's reading books at home that she enjoys but she's v. young and the type of kid you have to prepare for change and running out of colours is something I want to prepare her for if that's the case.

Thanks.

I'm a TA and have never heard of copper level! Maybe it's made up by school to mean free readers or something ?

We have free readers after lime, but still coloured. There's burgundy, black, light blue and grey. They go all the way up to year 6, although we don't force the children to read only their band colour.

Our lime is also called emerald, and we have ruby and sapphire to follow.

after lime we have brown which is also often called free readers

DD is in Yr4 and is on something called diamond. The scheme is called Big Cat - she finds them pretty boring but accepts that her teacher needs to evidence what she is doing. Compared to ORT and others they aren't bad - stories by proper authors, and her current non-fiction book on design and architecture is pretty interesting.

She is expected to read other stuff alongside it and does - the Percy Jackson books for bedtime reading and various things from the library for daytime leisure reading.

Big Cat goes all the way up to pearl!

IIRC after lime comes copper, then topaz, ruby, emerald, sapphire, diamond and pearl

snowball - "IIRC after lime comes copper, then topaz, ruby, emerald, sapphire, diamond and pearl"
Ah, so maybe she didn't dream it!

Thanks to all who responded. It seems like there's a range of options after lime in different schools/areas. I'd rather she wasn't a free reader at her age so am glad the reading will remain structured for a bit longer.

Thanks again.

Haven't seen any pearl ones, but it depends on what the school buys in. I'm relaxed about it - DD is reading at Yr6 level and loving her reading, which is what really matters.

I just wish there was a site where we could map current children's books against these schemes so that we have an idea of what to suggest to our DCs - then again, how would you map something like Percy Jackson? They're long books, they deal with some complex factual/historical stuff (Greek mythology), they cover a lot of big themes - but they are very very accessible too...

Loads after lime in my Dc's school. It seems to vary hugely between schools.

Yes, after lime is brown. So it's probably called copper in your school.

brown
grey
dark blue
dark red

As mrz said in ds1's school.

Ds1 is on lime now...does that mean after he has completed the other 4 colours he will be a free reader (whatever that means?)

Those 4 colours take you all the way through KS2.

You do approx one a year.

Lime/brown Y3
Grey Y4
Blue Y5
Red Y6

Hmmm.

DD's school has grey after lime (and then free reader).
DS's school has cream after lime (and don't know what next as he's not got there yet, but the cream books are harder than the grey at DD's school).

So sounds like both schools are making their own thing up?

These are the colours we use, on the LH side

We used to have free readers after lime but now we sticker them up as all lime (we're infants). The competitive yr1 mums were getting everyone down