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Y6 Level 6 Reading - did anyone get it??

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kitnkaboodle · 08/07/2015 15:29

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??

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Hulababy · 08/07/2015 22:14

It is possible to be level 4 in year 2. It is teacher assessment and if the teacher has enough solid evidence then the child can be assessed at level 4.

There is no level 4 ks1 paper, but the test paper levels are not the final result anyway at ks1. They are just used to inform and support teacher assessment and planning and can be done at any point in the year. It's very different to SATs at ks2 in this sense.

I know of a couple of children assessed at level 4 at the end of year 2.

It'll all change next summer anyway.

Feenie · 08/07/2015 22:16

It's a common myth among teachers who haven't read the KS1 ARA, which is an annually published statutory KS1 assessment document. It's also a myth amongst some Y2 teachers who jolly well should have!

yellowcurtains · 08/07/2015 22:17

I'm in a secondary school, and we're taking several with level six reading this year. (So definitely more than two per county! )
We have over 20 with 6 in maths too. Heaven help us when they get to Y11!

WhattodowithMum · 08/07/2015 22:24

kitnkaboodle, my DD was moderated a 6a in writing (apparently some debate about giving her a 7c.). I don't know her sat scores yet. I'd be surprised if she got a 6 for reading. I would say that she does read a lot, all stuff she likes and chooses. She has never finished a "classic."

She did have some tutoring in the 6 months before the 11+. I think that made a big difference. She's able, but not an autodidact. Because her class is mixed ability (they don't even set by table) there was never enough differentiation for her to learn what she needed to be competitive for the 11+ for the London selective independents. I think it's fair to say that her SATS results will have had an extra boost as a consequence of preparing for the 11+.

AuntieUrsula · 08/07/2015 22:46

Twin 1 got level 6 reading and SPAG but twin 2 got neither (scoring 5b and 5a respectively). Both were level 3s at the end of KS1. I don't know how many kids got it, or how many of them were boys, but I do know that far fewer boys than girls sat it!

balletgirlmum · 08/07/2015 22:50

A boy at ds's football tonight claimed he got 6c for English & maths & a 5a for spag

Somehow I very much doubt it as he's a big show off (all hot air)

Goodwordguide · 08/07/2015 22:56

At least one girl at our school got 6 in reading - Dd didn't but was pleased with her 5a. I think 5 sat it, not sure how the others did.

kitnkaboodle · 08/07/2015 23:21

How do you know how many got it per county??

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parabelle · 08/07/2015 23:24

Two in my dd's class got level 6.

ThatBloodyWoman · 09/07/2015 08:07

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.

AMumOfThree · 10/07/2015 13:39

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.

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HPFA · 10/07/2015 13:58

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?

DontCallMeBaby · 10/07/2015 18:04

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!

areyoubeingserviced · 10/07/2015 18:06

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

SunnyPath · 10/07/2015 19:25

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

TheFirstOfHerName · 10/07/2015 19:29

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.

tippytappywriter · 10/07/2015 19:45

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

elfonshelf · 10/07/2015 21:41

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.

WhattodowithMum · 10/07/2015 21:46

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 · 10/07/2015 22:24

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!

missme10 · 11/07/2015 18:22

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).

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missme10 · 11/07/2015 18:28

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 · 11/07/2015 18:30

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 · 11/07/2015 18:32

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

Silly me.

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