KS2 SATS - did anyone at your school get Level 6 reading??

[kitnkaboodle]

.. just wondering. I know it's very rare across the country. Our school entered 5 pupils and none of them got it

There isn't an official list as such, sweetsummerpea.

"Those children who genuinely are above Level 5 could surely use the time more productively doing extension activities."

I'm not sure there's much difference between an extension activity and tackling some L6 questions. DD did learn a few new tricks such as the dreaded PEEing and was more [::groan::] 'stretched'. However when I run the universe, I'm going to have more pragmatic comprehension and less of the literary luvvie guild-speak about foreshadowing etc. For example:

• Write one short sentence containing all the genuine information to be found in this long page of text that like most of them these days is largely vacuous marketing twaddle.

• Read this politician's speech and identify a minimum of three different classes of informal logical fallacy.

• Find four phrases in this journalist's article that are intended to make the reader feel angry about teachers.

And so on.

Does anyone know how many kids got Level 6 for Reading at KS2 nationally this year? I think it was about 2000 total last year which works out at zero percentagewise.

Dd got level 6 maths and level 5 for everything else. No-one else in her class got level 6 for any subjects (small rural school). The school I work at had no level 6 readers or writers and likewise another teacher friend's school. I think the literacy level 6s are extremely hard to get - as everyone else on the thread says!

Last year the (unverified) national data was released in mid-September, you had to fiddle with it yourself and I arrived at a 0.4% pass rate for L6 Reading. Somewhere, possibly RAISE Online, they don't have decimal places hence the 0%.

There is a lot of consensus about the maturity, life-experience angle, There will obviously be exceptions, but I expect the passes are clearly biased towards the older children.

My summer-born DD did NOT pass L6 Reading this year. I had read that Sheffield report on the L6s and explained why she might fail this back in Y5, so she didn't appear to care. It took her a week to remember to tell us that the DH (not her Y6 teacher) had told her that she came closest and had scored last years' threshold. She is too modest and I was pleased they did that because a couple of the oldest girls have been quite good at belittling all her successes.

On balance I feel quite blessed on both counts i.e. she did very well, but isn't that hung up on relative rankings and SATs.

At my daughters school, five children were entered and only one person got it, that person being my daughter, however, as she is an avid reader at home it was expected of her

DD2 got it.

This new blog post is about the provisional 2014 results in the Level 6 reading test giftedphoenix.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/what-happened-to-the-level-6-reading-results/

9% in our school got level 6 reading but it is a selective indie. (not my ds though) More than half the year group passed level 6 maths.

@GiftedPhoenix, assuming you are the author then many thanks because I do value those blog posts.

No problem

Don't understand what is the point introducing level 6 English, if no one gets it.
Math is beter. However, I think the schools are crazy putting through 30% of the kids unless they all score already 5high level.

On one hand I was happy they introduced level 6 math when my DD was in year 6, as she was so bored since Y5 - she lernt nothing for almost 2 years (what a waste), and although, she was not tought at all level 6, she passed.

But, when she went to secondary, she was classified level 5high only anyway - but I understand that, she was not properly tought level 6 and even she made the exam 6 it was just based on the fact she worked it out on her own

Stats are 0.14% pass rate this year - down from 0.4% in 2013.

And they raised the pass mark again.

I don't know why they bother having this test either.