Level 6 - how many?

[NorhamGardens]

I know these are very tough to get at the end of KS2. Out of interest how many were achieved in reading, writing and maths at your primary? Is it fairly usual for there to have been none at all?

How many would you roughly expect in these subjects at a selective school?

Schools around us seem to have had more in maths.

Ds was at a very small independent (non selective), he was the only one. At a super selective, there would be more as they can pretty much choose to admit the ones with the highest scores.

Thanks, Lady, in maths?

Maths, English and a level 5 for science.

Thanks. Am I right in thinking it's much harder to get one in literacy - especially writing? Should you expect the vast majority of schools to have no level 6s at all? (I think so)?

There will be inevitably be more in maths. Level 6 is much, much harder to get in English as the skills required (inference, for example) take longer to develop. In our two-form entry state primary school I think it was something like six in maths and none in English.

OOh hello NorhamGardens, not seen you for a while.

At my DC's primary, state, v. mixed catchment they got 2 for maths, 1 reading, no-one was entered for writing.

Yes, I'd say so. A child would need very advanced literacy skills. I'd say Maths would be slightly easier; they would just need to know the concepts and how to apply them by skipping levels which is easier to do, so instead of teaching them tens and units, they would be taught the next level (hundreds tens and units) if this makes sense.

From the table on the school's website, 14% got a 6 in maths, which I think is 3 children. None in English. Village state primary.

L6 on maths was too easy to get - so they raised the mark needed to get the score.

ie in the sample L6 paper given to schools at beginning of year 50% was needed to be awarded a L6, in the real exam 75% was needed.

At my school loads of kids got above 50% (about 20%), but very few got 75% ( about 5%)

However, as this was the first year L6 papers were sat no one was really sure what was happening, and in many, many schools nobody sat L6 at all.

I expect more schools will sit this coming year - and the threshold to be equally unattainable.

We got same number of L6s in Maths and English. I'm fairly sure all the kids who got L6s had been privately tutored for an out of borough grammar school they wanted to go to.

Actually I think the same number of kids got L6 as got places at grammar school.

Indigo DD2 didn't get her level 6 maths for just this reason.

I don't know if anyone did, but I'm not at all sure the HT would have bothered running classes if he'd known.

I'd have not entered DD without doing loads of work with her had I known.

Actually she didn't care, I thought she'd be upset, but she seemed to understand that L6 was a game to shut up OFSTED. Her school have had a lot of grief and been down graded by them.

In my school we got 25% level 6 in maths (out of 90 kids - so I think it was 22 that got it. We entered 34). English was MUCH harder. They raised the pass mark on that paper too. We entered 20 and only 3 got it on the comp. 16 got it in the writing.

15% in Maths at DS's school (better prepared as had a teacher from secondary come in to teach the able mathematicians all year - not to 'pass level 6', as it's not that kind of school, but to extend the most able).

None in English but I expect there to be more next year as Literacy head has moved in to Year 6 and it looks as if there will be a focus there this year.

We had 3 level 6 writers at my school out of 45 children in the year group. I don't know about maths I'm afraid.