Reception - EYFS writing targets (any teachers out there...?)

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Please can someone tell me where I can find exactly what the EYFS literacy targets for writing are?

Where I can see some examples of actual 'graded' writing?

And how/when are the children generally assessed?

Also...out of interest, what's the feeling on the expected targets? Are these too easy? Too hard? Ok?

Information on the writing element of the curriculum really appreciated!

They needed to show awareness of punctuation and to be able to write more than one sentence.

DD is now in yr1 but when in reception last year I was told that a child needed to be a 2C to be exceeding in any subject.

However, the next school down the road were using a 1A as the guide for exceeding.

My bug bear was that its all very well using a 1A/2C (whatever) as a guideline for exceeding, but if a child isn't taught the stuff needed, then how can they achieve it?

Mrz - surely the several sentences and punctuation thing was to do with point 9? Seems like an age ago! I personally think saying a child needs to be 1A to get exceeding is bonkers. Surely if they are working at any NC level then they are exceeding what would be expected in early years? Maybe that's just me.

Exactly riversideMum these kids are only 4-5 after all.

I seriously don't get why the govt has set a target that so relatively few will meet. If only 50% "pass" then that "fails" half of reception doesn't it?

Surely meeting expectations should be something that most children (nearly all?) are capable of, with perhaps those with identified SN missing some of the targets, and those that have soared going beyond?

(I am not an early years teacher - just a parent so don't nec know what I'm talking about).

If I'd been told my child wasn't meeting expectations I'd now be worried. As much as I believe in aplay based reception (and year one for that matter) if an official person said my child wasn't meeting expectations I'd be wondering if I needed to get them tested/there was something I'd nto picked up on.

Isn't it a way to just worry people?!

1 child out of 90 got an exceeding when DD was in reception last year.

In the class I am in (another school) 4 kids out of 120 got exceeding (in non academic subjects, none in reading, writing or numeracy).

Scary!!!!

Marking my place to read this tomorrow.

I know of two who got exceeding in reading in my daughter's year in reading. There may have been others that I don't know about.

My daughter has been told she will be marked exceeding - yet I'm not sure by mumsnet standards she is....

mumsnet is a really good school. Lots of children went there.

In my LEA the expectation was for point 8 for point 9 we were looking for more eg stories with beginning middle and end in independent writing

DD was exceeding in writing in fiction only (last year in reception) but as her non fiction was not so strong (it was not covered in the classroom) she wasn't awarded it overall.

There were several parents whose child got a point 7 (school used old system right up till reports came out) but then were awarded emerging at the end of the year.

Grin collumn. And they're all freereaders before they start, and all the brightest in the year...

ofsted we didn't have masses of evidence for writing, precisely because we wanted to show child initiated, and to be honest even my keenest writers didn't do a lot of that, despite the many exciting and challenging writing opportunities we gave them . We are now doing adult focus small group writing every day, in writing books, so we have a lot of evidence, but of a completely different type. I wonder how much level 2 writing is actually produced without quite a lot of adult intervention?

Goodness- if I believed DD's school, I'd be boasting to all and sundry about having a genius pfb- she was awarded exceeding in all but 2 of the ELGS.

Luckily, I know enough about education to recognise that I have a lovely, but decidedly average, DD- who attends a school with shockingly low standards. In theory, moderation should prevent this from happening, but obviously it isn't always working.