Concerned about dd's progress in year 2

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Hello all, newish to mumsnet so please bear with me.

I am concerned about my dd's progress at her very good prep school, in sept she will be entering year 2, she is a bright child but she failed her phonics screening test with a mark of 25 (pass mark is 32) I am a constant worrier so talk to her teacher if I ever feel concerned about her progress and the problem is I always seem to be told she is on target for her age, very able reader, very keen to please, extremely responsive to rewards system the teacher started. But when she didn't pass the test it's left me slightly concerned about how much time she is getting in class (class of 15). The class has a group of very clever children ie timetables to 12 in year 1 etc..
I know these children get a lot of attention from teacher and it's always children from that group who get picked for talking in assemblies, taking register to reception, and all that sort of stuff that kids get upset about ( I know that makes me sound silly).
So despite of being told dd is doing fine I am not happy with her teacher and truly feel she is not getting enough attention in class she will have same teacher next year so not feeling very confident about dd's progress in year 2 and especially worried about sats tests.

I do a lot of reading and number work at home and dd is an able child.

I have been to 3 different tutors this summer for assessment of dd to see if she is where she should be, they have all come back and said she is at right level so my question is should I Be worried about her teacher because she didn't pass the test and should I write to the head teacher?

If she really is at the expected level, why did she fail the test? The school has good reputation but I worry if dd will get lost in class with these extremely able children.

I worry about education a lot because I wasn't very good at school and didn't have parents who really understood education.

Any advice or comments appreciated.

You may be interested in this mam29

www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/sep/04/teaching-assistants-classroom-improvements

www.schoolsupportstaff.net/publications/otherpubs/icire_paper.pdf

as a teacher/literacy coordinator/SENCO I feel strongly about pupils being sent off with a TA ... interesting the strugglers in your daughter's class were working with TAs not teachers when they are the children who most need a teacher.

mrz No need to convince me I agree.

dd ta was bit odd last year.
but dd liked her
and she did seem to help my dd a little.
but the kids in the special group after the 8weeks blending

some fell behind
some stayed same-my dd
some moved up some levels.

obviously hard to take childs word but my dd when asked if stuck what help she got in class she said well depends what table you on mummy.

Literacy and numercay are set onto tables.

think shes bottom numercay
one from bottom for reading

she sayds its often the ta who helps and sits on their table.

The teacher is on top table helping the clever ones mummy as they doing really hard work. when asked how do you know its harder.
well the teacher sometimes shows the rest of class their work mummy and its way hard.

I guess with sencos least they bit more specilaised and know more than the teacher and have more experince so a senco ta should be differentiated from a normal ta I guess.

Normally when we looked round schools one noraml teacher also had senco attached to them as well but taught a normal class I dont think many schools have fultime senco teachers at mainstream primary .The ones who did have special needs or poor english just appeared to have a ta.