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??

[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.

[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

[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.

[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

[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%

[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!

[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.

[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.