Y6 Level 6 Reading - did anyone get it??

[kitnkaboodle]

Got SATS results today including the actual marks. Once again none of the three Great Hopes at my daughter's (Ofsted outstanding) school got the Level 6 Reading. What a daft test!

Anyone know any child who got it?

I think this is the last year for all this, isn't it??

[Cabbagesaregreen]

Dd got 6s in everything. Especially proud as her school is in special measures and she's had to contend with medical condition as well as history of very poor teaching and string of supply teachers.

[WhattodowithMum]

Finally got the results!

No L6 reading, but she did get math and SPAG L6, so she is a happy anyway. No one at her school has gotten L6 this year or any previous year, so it makes it easy for her to shrug off. The teacher did assess her Reading at L6B though. We were given SATs scores and teacher assessments separately. I wonder why and how each is used.

[tippytappywriter]

Kitnkaboodle. No my DD wasn't tutored in any way. She just loves reading and is mature in her outlook. Maths on the other hand...had to be dragged to a level 4! I will be saying a big well done to that teacher!

[MN164]

On gender, I am slightly saddened that the available stats show that "gender stereotyping" might already have kicked in at primary school (most of which is co-ed setting). Or is this purely a physical developmental difference (i.e. girls maturity / adolescence greater in year 6 than boys)?

Percentage of pupils getting level 5+

Maths
Boys 44%
Girls 40%

Reading and SPAG
Boys 46%/46%
Girls 52%/58%

[MN164]

Responding (with pride) to earlier post about boys getting L6 reading. Ours did along with level 6 in maths and spag. I'm guessing that three L6s is quite rare.

Elsewhere I've read that L6 reading is less than 0.2% of SATs results. The gender split doesn't register. The only stat that I can dig from the DoE data shows a high component (i.e. that registers without risk of data protection breach) of Ethnicity - Chinese that achieved Level 6 reading.

www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-curriculum-assessments-at-key-stage-2-2014-revised

[ProggyMat]

My DD wasn't tutored/prepared for 11+.
She reads a lot of Jacqueline Wilson-esque stuff, but is open to suggestions from me.
We read my idea of 'classics' together ( A Kestrel for a Knave, to name one) and discuss 'wider issues' in the text.
I didn't expect her to achieve a L6, as I believe a DC cannot be 'taught to this particular paper'.
We discussed sitting L3-5 only, as I didn't want her to feel disappointed, but she wanted to try.

[kitnkaboodle]

missme - oh my gosh, you're right! They've made a mistake on her results sheet. I can see on the printed bit that the Level 6 Reading is graded out of 34, yet the teacher has handwritten her score as 16/50. Just a slip of the pen, I'm sure. So she's got 16/34, which will be much less of a disappointment to her! Thanks so much for that. She was quite down about it last week as they'd done so much work for it and she can be quite hard on herself.

She'll be chuffed when I show her.

Well done to everyone who got it. Maybe there's a trend for those who have been practising 11+ to be those more likely to get it ..??

Whattodo - do let us know your DC's results

[WhattodowithMum]

No worries, missme.

When I finally get DD's levels on Monday, I expect to see a 6 for writing, not a 6a. Her teacher was very pleased when he bumped into me after school. So he was babbling a bit. I think he may have been translating things into terms a parent would understand, rather than giving me the unvarnished facts. (He only said with "elements of 7c".) In any event she did well in writing. Probably due to tutoring for the 11+, and I would be very surprised if she did equally well in Reading. Delighted, of course, but utterly gobsmacked.

[missme10]

Forget that ^ I'm thinking of something else @ WhattodowithMum

Silly me.

[missme10]

WhattodowithMum - Haven't heard of a 7c in writing before. I always thought reading and writing stopped at a Level 6 (Maths goes to a Level 8).

(I'm not saying you're lying - just never heard of it).

[missme10]

Take the sub-levels your schools have given you for SATs levels with a pinch of salt. Grade boundaries released are straight levels only and sub-levels are guesswork - one school may decide a 4b in reading is 23 marks out of 50 and another school may decide it's 22 marks for example.

[missme10]

kitnkaboodle - the Reading test is out of 34 (not 50). Bit of a random number really.

We didn't have any L6s in reading - closest was 14. (24 is required for a L6).

[elfonshelf]

They are pretty happy - especially considering that nearly 80% of the kids are EAL, and their FSM is over 60% - but their results have been fairly similar for the last few years.

They got multiple scholarships to top London super-selectives this year and that they are very, very happy about given that most of the children come from backgrounds that don't even know about private or selective schools. The staff put in incredible work and go above and beyond for the kids and the HT and governing body are superb.

DD is in Y1 and having left London this year, we commute in by train every morning (just over an hour each way) as there is no way I would ever give up her place at this school. We've just heard today that they're bringing in an extra teacher for Y2 so they will be in 3 classes of 20 each with a FT teacher and FT TA, and plan to do the same for Y4 and Y5... can't complain about that!

[WhattodowithMum]

Wow! Those are some amazing results elfonshelf. Your Headmaster/mistress must be walking on air.

My DD report is postponed till Monday. I'll have to wait all weekend to find out how she did.

[elfonshelf]

At DD's school 4% got L6 reading, 11% L6 writing, 20% L6 maths and 16% L6 SPAG.

Seems pretty incredible to achieve L6 reading.

[tippytappywriter]

My DD did! Found out today. She is a bookworm. She was very pleased.

[TheFirstOfHerName]

My youngest two are in Y6. Out of 90 children in their year group, 4 got L6 in reading. 11 in SPaG and 16 in Maths. I think it's quite an able year group though.

[SunnyPath]

How do you know the actual scores? I thought teachers were not allowed to tell you these.

[areyoubeingserviced]

Dd got level 6 maths, reading , writing and spag from a school that 'Requires improvement'

[DontCallMeBaby]

2% L6 for reading at DD's school - one child. No idea who, of which sex, anything!

Target was 10%, I don't know what we were thinking in that particular governors' meeting. Oops!

[HPFA]

One girl got it in DD's school. I find the gap between 5 and 6 a bit puzzling- last year 65% of Year 6 got level 5 in Reading but again only one Level 6. Why this enormous gap between the requirement for 5 and 6?

[AMumOfThree]

Very proud of my DD, who also got L6 reading (and Maths and SPAG!). She reads extensively, but admittedly has also had the benefit of excellent teaching at a private school.

[ThatBloodyWoman]

My dd got it in writing as well as reading.
She does read a lot,though what she enjoys rather than classics..She's had no tutoring,and tbh I wholly disagree with the pressure kids are put under for SATS.I was quite cross with the whole hoo ha the school made about them.
No idea what she got in the other one -I can't remember -but it was above average.

[parabelle]

Two in my dd's class got level 6.