What level or similar should the average child be at by end of Reception?

[primalsteam]

I've got my childs Recpetion report, and the main thing is they are happily settled, adapted to school life, and starting to learn well.

But I am curious or possibly a little concerned just to know if they are on track with their learning ( as it is) so far. The reason I am concerned is that before with much elder DC when he was in Reception and Year one,( many years ago) I was told in reports and parent evenings everything was fine.........only then to be told suddenly at start of Year two that he was very 'behind', 'struggling' and I needed to do lots of catch up work at home to get him to catch up.
I now realise he was below average( welll below) in Reception and Year one but because the reports were so vague I had not realised!

So just to insure the same pattern does not happen again, does anyone know how you can tell (if school report) does not tell you, where your child should be on average going into Year one???
I can;t really compare back to my first DC beause at the end of their reception he could only read very very few words and only knew about half his letters, if that.

Did you get ELG scores? I think they should be hitting ELG6/7 to be on target.

Do you know what level books he is on? I'm sure if you can give details, someone will come along who cand advise. I second the comment about about the Foundation scores: out of 1 to 9, what did your child score?

Our reports gave scores, when I asked what these meant (? Not sure what is the point of giving a score if you don't explain its meaning) the reception teacher said anything 6 and above is normal and means no need to worry.

This is what is so frustrating is that report only had a little paragraph descibing the progress in each learning goal area ( eg little Primal is staring to understand letter sounds, is eager to concentrate, blah blah, nice but vague but no numbers or scale at all)

The 'pass' for reception year is 78/117 on the early years foundation stage profile, as long as the child scores at least a 6 in each of the areas.

....so from what you're saying.. does everyone else's school give out actual numbers or scores at end of Reception ?
Why do some schools give them out but ours ( and others?) do not?

I wonder what the best practice/ofsted recomendation would be on this??

No scores given out here. The teacher did mention in verbal feedback what they would be.

What colour level books is he on? In ds's class, children are on everything from pink to green. Most are on yellow. Does this help?

Is there a standard banding of colours or does each school have its own range of colours?

In our school they only seem to start colour banded books in Yr 1 but have separate easier books with no colour bands in Recep.

The school has to report the scores to the LEA so they do have them. At my dd's school they gave us a nice descriptive report and then a second sheet detailing the eyfs scores.

I think if you ask, they will tell you. I've read on MNet that you have a right to the information.

There was nothing in our (very beautifully written, not just a copy and paste job!) report, but I asked DD's teacher after school today and she was very forthcoming with all the levels. She told me both the Early Years score and the grade levels (e.g. 1b etc) she was at for the various subjects. I wouldn't have known to ask if I hadn't read something on here!

thanks evertyone, very helpful responses. If they do have the target scores levels then i won't feel too bad asking for them. I really would like to know.

I agree with the issue of personalities influencing scores. DD2 is the very youngest in her year, but quite outgoing. Her teacher said 'DD2 is so ready to assess. I teach them about repeating patterns, then she comes up to me saying 'look, I made a repeating pattern'.

Another child could do exactly the same, but if the teacher doesn't notice, they wouldn't get scored.