Exceeding all ELGs in Reception

[TheBakeryQueen]

How common is this?
Has anyone's child exceeded all ELGs in reception & how are they doing now?

I am very interested in LL0015's post about age related expectation. I would love to see this wheel!!

Having summer born boys, especially reception year is hard when they are being assessed compared to girls who are 9+ months older than them.

Are there any age related stats that anyone knows about? I didn't see anything about age in the link posted earlier.

DD got exceeding in all areas. I'm a teacher in juniors so no clue about early learning goals etc. We read most days and she has always loved craft and imaginative play etc. I don't think she is freakishly bright or anything. She is currently on ORT blue which I don't think is majorly ahead of expectations. I just think she is an 'all rounder'.

My DS2 got all exceeding

He is September born so at an advantage.

DD got just 2 Exceedings. Couldn't be prouder tbh!

OP, my DS (now Y2) got Exceeding for everything in YR - he's the eldest in the class though. Fast forward to now and he is still doing really well but I'm not sure that it's wise to use the ELGs as a predictor for the future. For example, DD was waaaaaay above average in YR but she left Y6 with average levels.

The evidence is that the old profile was more useful in predicting GCSE than KS1 or 2 achievement

I think age has a huge amount to do with it. September born dc1 was probably exceeding in some areas (reading for sure) at start of reception. Late July born dc2 didn't really read until end of Reception. I can't remember what they got in terms of exceeding /expected but imagine was lower than dc1.

Both got all level 3 at end of year 2 and I suspect dc2 is the brighter but being 25% younger in reception than dc1 was masked it.

Mrz is there anything you can link to - that sounds interesting?

We were just pleased to see our DS1 (June) had at least expected tbh - the handful of exceedings were a bit of icing on the cake. The cherry was the amount of detail his teacher went into explaining it to us, and we came away feeling she really understands him.
I fail to see how that is a predictor for how well (or not) he will be doing come end of primary though.

My summer born DS had 9 exceedings. I am thinking now that this is quite impressive!

Posted the wheel, I would also like to know more - perhaps Mrzcan enlighten us?

I cropped the line off the key as it has his name.

To the poster who asked for results at KS1 of child with all expected. DS got 17 expecteds at end of EYFS despite being old in the year. Just had KS1 sats results and he has got all level 3s in every subject and some are high level 3s on teacher assessment. He suits the learning in KS1 better than the EYFS format but is not particularly bright just listens, retains and tries hard. He has done no additional work outside of school not even reading other than school books and set homework to make this increase.

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/190639/DFE-RR291.pdf

Only 0.6% of boys and 1.2% of girls attained exceeding in all areas in 2013 (page 18).

My youngest got 3 exceeding and the rest expected. I am delighted as he's my 3rd child and personally I can see that he's absolutely flying in most areas except social and emotional as he's still likely to burst into tears if something doesn't go his way. It's a private school so they may judge more harshly. I've no idea what other children in his class got, it never occurred to me to ask or to tell. I am pretty sure he's the brightest of my 3 by a long shot and the eldest finished year 6 on 5's & 6's so I have no concerns

15/17 exceedings here for Oct born DD. expected for technology and something 'social'-basically she's sometimes a bit too cheeky! I'm pretty happy with her results

Thank you Claire784! Very interesting

That report is really interesting, Clare - thankyou.

I have a meeting with ds's teacher this afternoon about his report. He is statemented, and was emerging in all 17 areas (we are actually really happy with his report, as him getting through the first year, is a pretty huge achievement!!)
One of the things his teacher said she found tricky with the ELG was something that is mentioned in that report,
Some teachers in the workshop also noted that because the goals tended to emphasise talking and speaking, this made it harder to award children an expected level if they used other forms of communication
Ds has very very limited expressive speech and uses mostly Makaton and an AAC device - it will be interesting to see, as he gets more competent with his device, whether this affects his results.

April born DD got all exceeding. She is my PFB so new to all this!
We are very proud of how well she's done and how much she enjoys school but am taking it with a pinch of salt as a lot can change in 11-12 years.

Dd (March born) got 14 exceedings. Of the three she didn't 2 surprised me (art - as she is very into drawing - and technology - as she is bloody brilliant at technology (she can do basic programming). The other (imagination) doesn't surprise me at all!

Of the 14 she got exceeding for I was very surprised at the PE one - she was a very very late crawler, walker, runner etc. And she still comments often that XYZ are much faster runners than her. I was hoping that she'd "caught up" and would get an "expecting" but I really really didn't expect an exceeding.

So I'm not convinced about its " legitimacy" tbh. 30 kids times 17 scores is 510 boxes for teachers to tick - I can't see how they can do that in any way being completely consistent.

Or maybe I should be posting on the "development" site about how my very late walker dd is now an "exceeding PE-er". Would probably put a lot of minds at rest.

Noisytoys if it gives you any hope ds who has autism and had developmental delay and learning difficulties and was still on p scales in year 2 has just finished the first year of his level 3 course and intends to go to university the year after next. It took him a while to get there but learning is a marathon and not a race.
FWIW dd got a ridiculously high score in her EYFS assessment 113 from what I remember. I actually took it with a pinch of salt tbh as she has autism too and wasn't particularly convinced that she had achieved what she was reported to have.

My DD achieve all exceeding this year. However she is September born, could write all her letter and CVC words and attempting sentences before starting and was reading the lower level books before she started reception.

As far as what we do at home we do a lot but it's all play based and she spends a lot of time with Grandparents and my mum was a TA which helps. I try to give her as many experiential opportunities as possible so she can try new things.

All children are going to develop at their own rate and I think you just have to follow their interests and offer new ones. I would step away from the school type work books (unless your child likes them). Offer them their own desk area or white board so they have access to writing materials whenever they want them and spend time as a family playing as opposed to trying to 'school' them. Play hangman instead of getting them to write a list of spellings etc. find some videos on what they're doing at school and watch as a family instead of what you would normally watch (if they want to).

mumoftwoyoungkids it is utterly beyond me how my dd didn't get an exceeding for physical development at the end of reception. By this point she was conducting gymnastics lessons with the other children demonstrating her strength and agility. She was also the youngest in her ballet class by 6 months (some 2 years older) NO NO not like that as some poor child got stuck. But hey ho I doubt either of them will make the Olympics