highest level possible to acheive ks1 ?

[hoolahoolagirl]

Just a quick question, out of interest, what is the highest possible mark you can get in ks1? Is it a 3? 3a? is it possible to acheive a 4 or is that only for ks2 children? Cant seem to find the answer. Thanks in advance.

No limit for teacher assessment, 3 in the KS1 SATs test.

No limit for teacher assessment, 3 in the KS1 SATs test.(I think!)

Thanks crazy, and do you know if the ks1 results are based on teachers assessment, SAT results or a bit of both?

Hi Hooahoolagirl, pretty sure the SATs are mainly teacher assessment at ks1. Wouldn't worry too much though as many schools don't like to have too high scores at this stage or they can't get good 'value added' when they do KS2 SATs.

Children can (mine just has) get 3a's across the board.

He could do this because of the papers he sat.

Instead of sitting the SAT KS1 paper he sat the QCA end of year 3 and end of year 4 papers, which are optional papers for the school, marked internally but point valued against the NC descriptors.

He was able to do this as he has spent the most of his mornings this year in the mixed y3/4 class, so staff saw no point in him sitting the Y2 papers.

Had he done better I see no reason why he wouldn't have been marked as level 4c or whatever.

All papers have been sent home with full explainations and level awards and points written on the frount.

I think it's brilliant - a real insight into what your little one can do and where they stumbled.

Also I think scores for teachers assesment are based on consistancy over time, am sure I've read somewhere that children would have to be consistantly 3b in year two to get the 3 level ie children getting a few 3c criteria would be 2a's so anyone getting marked as a 3 would be 3b or higher.

We changed schools recently. Totally different policies at both. New school says abs max is a 3 - not a 3a,b,c or even higher. Not happening. Old school did purer teacher assessments, so weirdly DS ended up with higher scores last year in Yr 1 than he did at the end of Yr2 and the SATs...

I love the valued added point RosemaryandThyme - that TOTALLY makes sense.

I don't think your child got 3a because of the papers he sat. He got it because that is the level he is at, which would also have been achievable with the SAT KS1 paper.

Oh fair enough, I've not seen the Y2 KS1 test paper - so is the answer to the OP yes they could get a/b/c but some schools don't seperate out the sub-groups ?

It is entirely the school's policy whether or not to do sublevels. Probably makes it easier to track progress in more detail and set targets.

As you said earlier, a secure 3 would equate to 3b, so a child would consistently be performing at that level. A 3a would indicate that they may be achieving some elements of 4c but are not there yet.

Thanks MyBoys you explained it much better than my muddle - comes of having spent the morning playing roly poly dogs with seven 3 year olds !

Ooh sounds fun!