You know what might sound contracdictory to my other post on nc levels which think should remain.
But im wondering if scoring at efys should be scrapped as it stresses parents from farily stage and is meaningless.
examples
then they were p and number.
she was above average most of it.
but struggled when came to year nc levels.
she couldent read before she started school. 2 kids in her year could.
she couldent read well at end of reception, struggled year 1 only clicked year 2.
shes feb born so middle of year-at end of year 2 the gap in kids sept-jan were mostly top groups.
The summer borns were same level or overtaken her.
The whole 1year age gap in rec makes huge difference.
now child 2 has start sept birthday so missed starting last year by 16 days.
she did 2 settings as split funding
nursery have said shes way ahead and given her 40-60months
preschool disgree and says shes 30-50months working towards 40-60 yet shes 60months old in sept yet thats not expected until end of rec when shes nearly 6.
She can wrte her names, knows phonics but she cant read yet.
she has little mate at preschool same month birthday he can read and write and seems way ahead.
her mates at nursery start in sept too but they 6months age gap and makes huge difference.
same as year 1 preschool/nursery there wasent much to differentiate her old freinds who had summer birthdays and started last sept they now entering year 1.
Now my perception of my 2girls is different and i remind myself.
child 1 started reception at age 4.5
child 2 will be 5 so its natural to think shes ahead i relation to her sister I dont know if school will come any easier to her im sure being older having done 2full years of preschool and nursery been a factor.
child 3 is april born. hes due start next sept.
I dont think hes ready hes youngish for his year, hes a boy and hes nt talking we have no idea why? he starts preschool in sept.
Im sure obce they start scoring him he will score low due to speech and language.
Im unsure how he will cope with reception and would anticipate him struggling and scoring lw in preschool and reception.
Hw can he d phonics if he cant talk?
how can he read if he cant do phonics.
How can he write?
the whole concept of scoring him is a pointless exercise its setting him up to fail have no idea what we going to do even considering schools that dont use efys we feel he needs more time.
Lots of kids need more time for age gaps to close.
there are so many factors
how much preschool/nursery they did, do they have older siblings, birth date all can influnce how well they do.
in my opinion
a child who cant read and write before school is generally quite clever.
I would expect by end of r child should be able read a little but reading levels of class would vary a lot.
There as 41 maths skills expected at end of reception have tested middle child nd she can do most of them already.
important to note we expect in uk so much more of little people from much younger age as oz, canada, new zealand, south africa, singapore they start at age 6 we have stupidly low start age, high expectations and end game is at end of it we still not top of league in world education tables.
So as hard as it is try not stress about reception scores as long as your childs safe, happy , has freinds and can do basics simplest analogy would be new build housing estate some houses go up quicker than others but eventually will all be the same. just 1 year and very 1st year school not enough to determine how your child wlll perform all way through primary.
anyone else think mr kipling cakes exceedingly good when hear exceeding and I think butterflies when hear emerging its such weird words that really dont tell us much.
try look past efys scores you and childs teacher hopefully know childs strengths and weaknesses.