Any teachers who could explain where my dd is at based on this report?

[Corporatewidow]

Sorry, I know that this gets done to death at this time of year but I have just received my dd's end of Y2 report containing her various end of Key stage 1 assessment grades.

Overall grade - 2C

Am I right in thinking that this is the lowest of the sub-levels in level 2, i.e. 2A would be the highest?

For English is says she is a 3 for reading, 2 for speaking and listening and 2B for writing.
I am not sure why only the writing result gives a sub-level - is that usual?

Maths she is a 2A

For the 5 headings listed under Science she got a 3 for everything bar "Materials and their Properties" which was a 2. No sub-levels.

When people talk about "average" children being at level 2 at the end Y2 do they mean a 2C or a 2A?

To put this in context, my dd has a moderate hearing loss and is now bilaterally aided but this only happened midway through Y2 and she really struggled through YR and Y1. I feel that she has done amazingly well given where we started at the beginning of the year but despite having made fantastic progress this year I am still worried that she is failing to achieve her true potential and am considering extra-curricular tutoring for her in September. However, tutoring of small children isn't something I am wildly in favour of in general so I am wavering and I would appreciate the views of others on whether these levels would indicate that some extra help would be beneficial.

Another reason I am considering extra help in the form of a tutor is that dd really enjoys school and learning. She is the sort of child that spends all her free time writing and drawing and reading. However, she knows that she is in the bottom groups for most things and this makes her despondent - I understand her frustration as if I was putting in as much effort and application in as she does I'd feel a bit disappointed too. Obviously I try and bolster her confidence and self esteem but maybe tutoring would be a more practical way of helping her?

Sorry, I should also have said, dd is currently at a very high achieving state primary. I don't know about this year's results because we haven't been given a breakdown of grades across the year group but there is usually a large proportion of children who achieve a level 3 or higher at KS1.
I am not sure whether this should influence my decision or not. It is likely that dd is in a lower performing centile of this cohort than she would be on data drawn up on a national basis iyswim.
Is it reasonable to ask the school for a breakdown of the % of each SAT grade awarded in Y2 this year so that I can see where dd falls within her peer group?
Do schools still publish KS1 results in their prospectuses etc?

A child is expected to achieve at least 2b by end KS1. 2A is the top of level 2. Schools do not report sub levels at level 3 at KS1. For science schools are only required to give levels not sub levels. The reason you only have a sub level for writing is because reading is level 3 ( sub levels not reported) and speaking & listening schools only report whole levels.
It seems that dd has made great progress and is catching up well.Reading is often a sub level or 2 higher than reading as children will use what they have learnt from reading an use this to enhance written work. I would hold fire with extra tuition at the moment if it is a good school she should receive all the support she needs to reach her potential.

She shouldn't have and 'overall grade' so I'd discount that, and why 2c when she's higher than that in most subjects?

They don't tend to give 3a b or c at ks1 for level 3s so that's fine and speaking and listening is just a straight level, no sub level as is science etc.

It sounds like she has done fabulously given her hearing issues and I bet she'll do even better next year!

When people talk about "average" children being at level 2 at the end Y2 do they mean a 2C or a 2A?

a 2B

I find the overall grade very odd! As someone else has said the system of reporting end of KS1 assessments only sublevels level 2 in reading, writing and maths - not level 1 or level 3, and doesn't sublevel any level in speaking and listening or science where it is all flat levels (i.e. only 1, 2 or 3)

Thank you all so much for clarifying.
I must say that I struggled with how they had reached an overall grade of 2C when most of her other grades were much higher - I just assumed that some parts were more heavily weighted than others and had lowered her grade that way.
I also don't know why the school couldn't have sent out some short explanatory footnotes telling me what you've told me about the reporting of whole levels versus sub-levels.
Thank goodness I could rely on MN to clarify everything!

Thanks for all your nice comments re dd's progress. In case it didn't come across very well in my first post, I really am very proud of how well she has done (she has a number of other medical issues apart from her hearing) and the tenacity and resiliance she has demonstrated, regardless of the level she has been given.

If she has no level ones, then the overall grade is incorrect; there is no weighting.

We don't give an overall grade-it strikes me as being a bit pointless.