School report

[Sweetsecret]

Hi everyone, sorry if this has been discussed already, feel free to point me in the right direction of a previous thread.
But I have just received my DD's report and have no clue what it means!
She is in Y1, and it says Reading W3, Writing W2, Maths W2.
Any teachers or parents out there know what this means?
Many thanks!

Grey Read Write Inc books are roughly equivalent to Gold Book band -which is roughly the "old" level 2A.

"I don't think she is in the G&T bracket but they do have provisions put in place for children like this. Surely they would tell me if that was the case? "

My ds 's teacher talked about him being G&T , but never had any official G&T register or anything.(At least we don't know.) Also they use other words like "highly able" etc. these days?
Your school sound like a great school!

OP sorry to hijack your thread.

But my ds is year 1 and is on gold level book band for reading. But in his report it says level 5a, with 6b being the expected level for the end of year 1.

Are these the expectations of children now? They are high indeed.

These certainly aren't the "old" levels-few children achieved level6b at the end of year 6, let alone year 1!!!
Each and every school has its own system of recording achievement/attainment/progress so goodness knows what your school are using!

My ds was reading lime books end of reception and YR1 first term report was old NC 3C(for reading), and he wasn't G&T for literacy!

These obviously aren't the old NC levels. Our school use a system which to my knowledge, is made up of a number (that appears to be the leaving age of that particular school year) and then the letters C- working towards, B- at expected level and A- exceeding. And then there are + and - for each level, it really is ridiculously complicated.

Ds was on lime level as apparently that coincides with his phonics level, but he was moved down to gold at the start of year 1 for comprehension reasons and I agree gold was better for him although now I believe he could be moved back up to lime.

And then his teacher said he was 5A for reading (so just exceeding reception level), 5A+ for writing and 6C for maths.

And I left thinking wtf? Gold level books to me is exceeding the level expected in year 1, or at least it was when my DD was that age. But is this is what is expected of them as normal now?

I taking my dc's reports with a large pinch of salt. Schools have to demonstrate progress throughout the year, and it's difficult with no national framework for assessment/ever changing curriculum.

I am sure gold level is exceeding normal YR1 level, Marjorie.
spanieleyes said gold was about 2A in old NC, and lime around 2A/3C, I think, which used to be YR2 end level.
But new NC has become a lot more difficult than before, maybe that's why?

Marjorie are you in Wales? We use outcomes and O5 is the equivalent of old NC2, O6 is old NC3.

Its largely a numbers game though. The book band level isn't itself that meaningful because they have to demonstrate other things as well (comprehension, understanding of characters, message of the book etc) a lot of this is why it is harder than before, not just accelerating book bands. Once she's done the whole y1 curriculum and applied it she probably will be exceeding. I imagine that 'W3' is above where they are expected to be at this point of the year. I doubt its working at Y3 level though personally.

Reading gold/lime/White books bands/ the latest Harry Potter or Roald Dahl doesn't automatically mean the child is working at or above Y1 expectations there is much more to it than reading the words.