Teachers: these are his Reading and Numeracy Levels, please guesstimate Writing level.

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Ds is in Y5, I don't have his Y5 levels yet, these are from the end of Y4.

Reading 5C, Numeracy 4C If you had to guess what his writing levels what would you guess at? judging from pupils who achieve similar.

Thanks

No way to know but on the whole, most children have a higher reading level than writing, but within a level. So I'd guess somewhere from a 4c to 4a.

What did he get in year 2?

Y2 he was Reading 2a Maths 3C
Y3 Reading 4C Maths 3b

Children don't work like this, there is far too much variety. Guessing would be meaningless and almost certain to be wrong, at least by a sublevel but probably more.

I've taught children with much lower writing levels than numeracy and reading.

Are his writing levels much lower, OP? What do you think about his writing ability? Does he enjoy writing, or is it a chore for him? Have school flagged it up as a problem, and if so, what do they propose?

It's quite common to have much lower writing than reading and maths levels. There are so many practical things to remember when doing a piece of assessed writing. My ds for example always had fantastic ideas and lots to say but his writing was awful- he just could not remember about punctuation and capitals and things. Much better now- but he is in year 8!

His writing levels are
Y2 1a
Y3 2a
Y4 3c

Any thought please, I understand it is normal to have a lower writing than reading but the gap between reading and writing seems huge.

Also, what do you think of his progress?

Thanks

It looks like he didn't make much progress between Y3 - Y4 (one sub-level, when ideally it's 2-3) but that could be explained by the common Y3 'dip'.

It is not uncommon for children's writing to be well below their reading or maths.

Are you worried about it?

It is perfectly possible to read English fluently but be entirely unable to write it. It is also perfectly possible to be literate but not numerate.

The progress in levels year to year seem very odd ... sorry not helpful

I was going to guess 2A

My DS is also year 5 and his levels at end of year 4 were 4C maths 3C reading and 2B writing.

The progress in writing though is fine. Children are 'expected' to make 3 sublevels a year in Infants and only 3 per 2 years in juniors (so 1.5 a year). My DS is making lower than expected progress.

If your concerned have you met the SENCO at school yet? Ask for generic tests on reading/ spelling age, Comphrehension. Ask for the simple dyslexia test.

Remember though that making 1.5 sublevels can mean a child could be Y3 2B Y4 2A Y5 3B That can make the progess look uneven.

How are the levels assessed? The .... slightly bumpy .... nature of the levels (I'm with mrz on this one) suggest that they are possibly the result of 1 -off tests rather than proper continuous assessment.

Worth asking the school about the day-to-day levels that your child is working at (and how the levels you have been given have been obtained - from day to day work or from 1-off tests) before you go off into the deep end about the variation across subjects....

Thank you for your advice, I will ask about how he has been assessed at the next parents evening.