New national curriculum levels???

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I thought that levels and national expectations had gone in the new curriculum?

We had parents evening tonight and the first thing we were shown was the 'individual learning plan' which all children have, complete with the 'national expected level' for the year group and where they expect children to be at the end of the year.

I thought this had all gone with the new curriculum?

Heaven forbid that all schools decide to take the approach that children can't be taught outside of their year of curriculum and must all have the same spellings/work etc. The problem with maths is how far sideways can you go when you have a child that nails a concept having been told it once. It smacks of the mentality that says thou shalt not read beyond red band books in reception when a child can pick up a chapter based novel and understand it.
I second Debskents views on exceeding/expected/emerging as unless it is applied carefully as Mrz suggests then it does not actually give the parent of a bright child any meaningful information upon which to assess their child's actual progress.
Fortunately DS1 hasn't been kept to his peer year curriculum (year 2 working in year 3/4 environment) and is the happiest and most confident I've ever seen him this year. I am under no illusion that this is only because DS1 attends a very good school that has seen fit to treat him as an individual with specific needs in terms of his provision. I am quite certain there are schools that would not have made the same adjustments.

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