Expecting the same progress for low ability children

[littlemiss06]

My daughter currently year two ended year one on level 1c in January yr 2 she was reassessed as bordering w/1c so therefore no progress really since May/June last year.

Shes been assessed by the ed psy and although out of her 6 core subjects she has four at average between 24th and 66th percentile, she does have two which are at the 3rd and 7th percentile so low but from what seems to be said thats not low enough. The ed psy says no significant sen difficulty but not sure whether this means she could still have mild learning difficulties? On the next page she has another 4 areas, verbal which comes out at 2nd percentile, non verbal 9th percentile, one at 16th and one at 32nd, overall her cognitive score is 16th percentile so below average but not a SEN so basically shes ok really educationally they just seem to think shes low ability but im just wondering now should I still expect her to make the same levels of progress over the year?

So if she started year two at 1c should I have expected 1a/2c by the end?

Can you not study the curriculum, find out what she's learning and give her pointers at home?

Yes we do lots of work at home with her :)

That's brilliant. I've seen discussions where little things like connectives in more complex sentences, punctuation, adjectives and so on make lots of difference in the (literacy) grades. These things don't seem wildly complicated. It just seems to me to be attention to detail. I think children who have been taught to pay attention to detail can pick up lots of (what might be easy points.)

Why not arrange a meeting with the senco so that you can go through the ep report with him or her and then discuss what level of progress they are expecting her to make. I am a governor and I know that at our school, average progress expected by children with sen is less,but each child has his/her own targets. I assume she has an iep that is regularly reviewed?

Do you mean should you expect her to make the same progress as the rest of the class?

Or do you mean should school ?

How much progress you expect her to make is a very personal thing based on your values and beliefs.

School will, on paper, expect her to make the same amount of progress as everyone else - ie a 1a / 2c.

However although that's what they'll tell you publicly, they may or may not think that privately.

I've always expected my SEN children to make the normal amount of progress. Then been disappointed, but not surprised, when they didn't.

But this is my belief. That they can and will achieve. And that lowering my expectations does them no favours.

You need to make an appointment to speak to his teacher and the SENCO to find out how you can support at home and more importantly what the school plan to do to support her.
Your daughter has SEN (not bad enough for a statement IME (usually needs to be below the 1st percentile ) but certainly low enough levels to require School Action support.

Is W/1C for Reading/Writing/Maths?

Thanks all, Mrz yes in reading/writing and maths also just discovered what I think is a mistake on the report it says her gca standard score is 77 which they have put at the 16th percentile but I think its actually the 6th as her verbal score was 70 on the standard score putting her at the 2nd centile and 9th centile in non verbal with a score of 80 so can't quite see how 77 puts her on the 16th centile althoug I may be wrong.

I agree a standardised score of 77 would equate to the 6th percentile not the 16th
Below the 9th percentile is borderline and a standardised score below 70 would indicate a difficulty in that area.