Levels for Year 1

[2cats2many]

I missed my DD's year 1 school meeting today. The meeting is a chance to go through what the teacher expects from the children and parents were given a pack with their child's individual targets for the year.

My DD has been set 2B for reading, 2C for Maths and 2C for science. I have no idea what these mean and there isn't an explanation of the levels in the pack.

Does anyone know where I can find out more about these levels and what they actually mean in practice? It will be a while before I will have the opportunity to ask the teacher.

Cheers

It means she is doing very well.

Mrz
Is it normal practise for targets to be set at the start of Y1 such as the OP describes?
So at DD school, is this a feasible question to pose at parents eve in 6 weeks (totally non communicative school)?
Sorry for hi-jack

OP what are your dd's current levels?

I have no idea what her current levels are. Levels weren't mentioned at the end of reception.

I do love my daughter's school, but so much of this stuff is a mystery and there always seems to be an assumption that parents will know what they are talking about.

Thanks mrz. We'll just keep doing at home what we are currently doing and see what happens.

I wonder what her level would be for listening and getting ready in the morning

The reason I asked was as a gauge of how ambitious or unambitious these targets may be.

My dd would be a level 5 for eating her breakfast and a 1C for everythring else!

This may help you

National Curriculum

If she can end year one on those levels shes doing fantastic, 2b is an average level for a end of yr 2 child

They are higher than average levels for a year 1 child at the end of the year. You would usually hope that Y1 children complete level 1 during year 1 and are beginning to work within level 2 in preparation for year 2.
Keep doing what you are doing and promote independence

The table on page two of this is useful for guaging where they're at.

We had lists in the back of our reading record saying that the criteria were for each level. It's useful to find them or ask for them, as there are things you can help them with. Things like recognising speech marks, understanding use of capital letters and full stops.

www.staveley.cumbria.sch.uk/documents/NCLevels.pdf

Thanks mum4041. That link is really useful for putting all the levels in perspective.

Hi 2cats2many:

I think what you need to find out is whether these are end of year targets or the targets she is currently working to.

This is important because the idea is that for the KS1 SATs usually taken in May of Y2 the target is a 2b (see mumsnet notes in Learning section on this here: www.mumsnet.com/learning/assessment/national-curriculum-levels).

As mrz said regardless of whether these are targets she's set to achieve by the end of the year (usually expecting 2-3 sub-levels of progress so 1a - 2c - 2b for 2 sub-levels progress) or targets she's currently working to your DD is doing well.

KS1 SATs usually taken in May of Y2

Not necessarily - KS1 teacher assessments are based on assessments made all throughout the year, not just in May. The evidence is drawn from many sources of evidence. The 'SAT' tests form a small part of the evidence, and may be completed at any time as part of the assessment conversation (although lots of schools choose do choose to do them in May).

choose to do them

I'm afraid the MN link is slightly inaccurate - 2B is the expected level for MOST children at the end of KS1.
Children in KS1 are expected to make 3 sub levels (1 full level) progress not 2.
As feenie says the KS1 tests and tasks can be administered at any point in Y2 and many schools now use them early in the school year rather than in May.