Ending year two (levels)

[littlemiss06]

I know my little girl is behind but how bad is it, she does have an IEP on school action. Her writing has come on leaps and bounds going from 1C at the end of year one to a fantastic 2C end of year two, maths gone from 1C to 1A so good progress but reading has only gone from 1C to 1B how bad is it or is it not too bad?

Expected levels for end of yr 2 are a 2B.

So writing is only slightly behind, maths is end of yr1/early yr2 level and reading is about a year behind.

It does sound like she is making progress which is all good

Sounds like your dd is progressing, although to be honest she is quite behind in maths, not quite where she should be in writing and pretty far behind in reading. She's at least a year behind in reading, and will need help to prevent this becoming a barrier to her accessing the rest of the curriculum in Y3.

What's the plan regarding her IEP for Y3?

Not really sure to be honest, part of me is really wondering if the levels are right only because the head teacher pulled me up at the beginning of summer term to tell me she was 1C in reading and 1B in maths and writing so im thinking if that's the case could she really have made a massive jump to a 2C from a 1B in one term? Just seems such a huge jump. Currently on her iep they are working at helping her get b and d the right way, basically just working on reading which we also do every night. Her maths she doesn't get any extra help with and reading is mostly just extra phonics sessions. She has already been seen by the ed psychologist which basically just showed her as a slow learner

Have you already arranged a meeting with someone from the SLT, SENCO and next year's class teacher to discuss how they will support her (and I guess what you can do over the holiday)?

If not, then I would try to do that this term if at all possible. Do ask about her levels if you're concerned that they're not accurate but the important thing for me would be what exactly are they planning to do to support your dd next year. If all they've done to support her reading is extra phonics sessions which have resulted in her being at least a year behind where she should be, I would hope that they've planned a better intervention for next year.

This doesn't sound quite right to me. It's very unusual for a child to be writing ahead of their reading level, and that's where I'd be starting my questions for the school. My children who are writing at 2c are all reading at 2b minimum (year 1 & 2). I'd also be expecting children to make an absolute minimum of 2 sub levels per year in KS1 - my children are targeted to make 3 sub levels progress (although they don't all make it of course, and some make more).

You definitely need to be asking what you should be doing to keep her reading going over the summer as finishing year 2 on a 1b means she's likely to find it hard in year 3. Get lots of ideas from the school about what they want you to do with her - need only be 10 minutes most days, but important to keep reading going.

Toomuchicecream - that did cross my mind too tbh...although am not a teacher so would not know for sure how unusual it is...

The headteacher said it was unusual for her level to be lower in reading than writing in spring when it was 1c in reading and 1B in writing but he said it was most likely that she was only slightly away from the 1B so they would even out but it did cross my mind that the gap now is even bigger so not sure what he would say now. Going to pop in this morning just to query it

My DS was writing ahead of his reading level and we were advised to see the SENCO. She diagnosed a visual tracking issue and worked on resolving that, it only took a couple of terms and he caught up.
It can happen, though I've only heard of it that once during my time working in schools. The SENCO had only heard of it a handful of times during her 30 years of teaching.