reasses ks1 results

[emma123456]

My son has started juniors. They have apparently reassesed the children and recorded their assessment of their starting point at juniors. The implication is that infant school has inflated the results and junior school shows poor progress for students as a result. Anyone else come across this? My son was assessed a 3 for literacy and is now on booster sessions. Is this Normal

It's quite common for year 3 teachers to find that year 2 teachers have been rather optimistic with their assessment, which makes it very difficult for them to show progress in year 3, even though the children obviously have progressed.
A child should only be given a level 3, for instance, if they are consistently working at that level and not because they produced one assessed piece of writing at that level. It's also a lot easier to get a level 3 on a year 2 reading paper than on a year 3 paper. Therefore year 3 teachers really do not want children coming to them with inflated levels.

DD has just started Y3. The school told us up front that they measure in a different way in juniors compared to infants so it is entirely normal to see the children "dip" as they start Y3. Her school aims to get everyone back to at least where they were by Christmas.

I could quite believe that, I didn't believe my daughters results at the end of last year and I'm awaiting parents evening and expecting to be told shes lower than they said, according to our school my daughter jumped from 1b to 2c in 6 weeks which seeing the work she does I absolutely don't believe for one minute she reached 2c

Exactly the same happened with my daughter's maths - she was 2a at KS1 and then came home one day in her first term at juniors and said she was in a maths intervention group.

The school put this "dip" down to the softly-softly way they assessed in the infants and the fact that from May until September, they hadn't really done much...

I think it's more to do with a not-very-good transition to juniors and the teachers not talking to each other.

She's in Y4 now, and it all seems to have evened itself out - unless I'm in for a shock at parents' eve!!

I'm a governor at the school and they are blaming the lack of progress per Ofsted dashboard on the infant school's inflated KS1 results.
Does this happen in other junior schools?
Is it an acceptable excuse?
Should the Junior school meet with the infant school to address what they claim is an on-going issue?
Feels a bit like an easy excuse for poor performance by the school.