reports, confused.

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I got my daughters school report yesterday and it grades everything in ABC's rather then all these 8/9's i saw mentioned on another thread. Is this common and do the letters correspond to anything?

It only goes down to C and says that A is above expected level B is at expected level etc.

This is for year one.

Also there haven't given the phonic scores, just whether they have passed or not. Is that usual?

The 8s and 9s are foundation stage in reception.
In year one they start national curriculum levels starting at 1c then 1b then 1a then 2c etc.

This is the first yr of the phonic test and I think they just have to say pass or fail.

It astounds me that all schools don't give out an info sheet with the report .

I know! They really should!

So do the a's mean 1a and the b's 1b etc?

Thanks for your help!

Really just a and b? It must just be their own system then! Sorry

Sounds like they do a simple in house grading system as opoosed to anything related to the NC levels.

The explanation is given C - means they are working below NC expected levels for the end of year 1 (prob 1C or below) B= working within/at National Expectations (NE) (prob 1B/A) and A = above. So a 1A/2C or higher.

The only thing you don't really know is what the school are basing their acheivements on. Some schools would call 1B expected and some 1A. Ask her teacher if your in doubt.

I believe the B level is normally the expected level, so if its year 1 expected level is 1B, year 2 expected level is 2B etc, with A being higher than expected and C being lower. My DD is in year 2 and we got the reports today - first time she has had a formal report like this - all seems very grown up suddenly!

That only works in y1and 2 though. The national expectations for y3 are not 3b, y4 4b etc.

It does say that A is above, B is expected and C is below so it makes sense.

Lots of schools do that. Instead of saying actual nc levels they just say above, at or below national expectations. They've just given them grades too, which is a bit confusing.