Early Years Goals

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Are the assessments for early years goals (emerging, expected, exceeding) collected nationally for pupil progress figures along with KS2 SATS or are they only used internally?

My son got exceeding for all elements today in his report, but I don’t feel he’s overly high achieving (he is one of the eldest in the year). My concern is that he may be heavily pushed for the rest of his school career to meet figures and his mental health could suffer. He is a deep thinker and an anxious little soul.

The government collects them and a report of the stats comes out in about November.

Ah bugger, are these what KS2 SATS are measured against for the school’s Ofsted? The school my sons attends are outstanding Ofsted and very results focussed 😞.

I think they are collated but I'm not sure there's a value added score for them. Google it?

Sounds like it maybe the wrong school for your lo if you’re already worried about his mental health. A good school knows and understands that one of the key things to a child being able to achieve is that their basic needs are met, see Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. A school that doesn’t understand this will find it hard to achieve good results, so have to push hard to get them.

No, that would be ks1 sats

Thank you, that’s very helpful.

I did google it but couldn’t find a clear answer. I hoped those who were more experienced would be able to shed some light. Thank you to those who responded.

It is our local school and the one he was offered a place at, sometimes there is little choice. He would be anxious anywhere.

The mums with year 6 children said they were expected to attend all sorts of additional revision sessions to meet previously defined targets. I hope that culture changes in the next few years.

Ours have extra revision sessions and my friends have year six children and some attended and some did not.

My ds has just done his Y6 SATS at a local Ofsted outstanding school. He got excellent results without additional revision classes, just a little extra homework that took no longer than 30 minutes each time. Anyone not completing the homework would do it in school the next day.

I’m sure it will all be fine, thank you. I understand now that my concerns are unnecessary at this stage. I’m grateful to hear he won’t be expected to meet these high expectations or have high targets set for subsequent years.

To give some context - my best friend ended her life last year. It has led to my great concern for the mental health of those I love. As children, we attended the same state primary school as my DS, followed by a SS grammar school. She continued to push herself to the limit for 100% success in all elements of life.

I panicked when I received the report and haven’t shared it with my DS. I have two DC who I now understand are likely to have high learning potential. I hope I can support their mental health.