DD seems to be in wrong maths group

[MrsTruper]

Bear with me...

DD started in new school yr 4 end of last term for 4 weeks. It was straight in to testing and she did really well, getting 5c in maths.

New term yr5, have found out that she is on a maths table with level 3's and 4's and the level 4a's and 5c's are in a separate maths group which are taken out of class entirely with dd left in class. I am quite confused and my daughter is frustrated as she is doing maths that she did in yr 3 (easy column addition and subtraction).

I am thinking its got to be a mistake or something. What on earth could the reasoning be for this?

I have spoken to the teacher briefly and got nowhere as she didnt even know what level my dd was on. I will be further speaking to the school but wondered what anyones thoughts are?

Sounds odd. I think I would raise it with the teacher again. Perhaps you could take her her end of year report showing her grade in maths.

Sounds very odd. How can they have been put into sets if the teacher doesn't know what level they are?

I suspect that her old school have sent through a level 4 as an estimate and somehow this has remained on her record rather than the 5c she is actually at - there will be an admin mess-up somewhere.

You definitely need to raise it with the teacher again.

The fact she got a 5c in one test isn't an indication she is working at that across the board, so maybe they are still assessing her overall ability? Won't hurt to have another chat with the teacher about movement between groups etc though.

Thanks for your answers everyone.

I did ask the teacher if they were still assessing her and they said no, and I asked if she was secure at her level and she said yes, even tho she didnt remember her level!...

My dd said that at the bottom of her worksheet it says level 5c, so the teacher must be aware of this. Could that she is NQT have anything to do with it?

Anyway, getting other half to come along to school today and speak to the teacher from last year too, hopefully this will get to the bottom of what is going on...

I would suspect that although she gained enough marks to be given a 5c, there were bits of her knowledge missing (because her school hasn't done it and her new school has) that the higher ones would be building on, and the lower ones would be learning.
They may also have been the possibility that although she gained the right answers, she didn't use the necessary method (which again the top ones will be building on) to be a true 5c.
I know that at the level 3 SATS they told us that there were certain methods they needed to see some understanding/knowledge of (like multiplication) to get a secure level 3. Some dc could get the right answers by drawing dots and counting, but didn't understand multiplication so needed to go through it much more thoroughly before they could be counted to have hit level 3.

Dewee - that's certainly a possibility but why didn't the teacher explain that when OP asked?

..I have a feeling she might have been caught on the hop and gave some stock phrase answers "oh she is doing so well" (nodding smiling) without knowing any detail /background...