Exceeding??

[candlefloozy]

Just got back from child's parents evening and they said that they will be pushing child to exceeding in reading and writing. What does this mean??

[LemonFritz]

Yellowcar - do you find that that 35% (for each single area) generally comes from the autumn/ spring born children?

Thanks for sharing, it’s very interesting.

[Yellowcar2]

LemonFritz no not at all some of my highest achievers are summer born and vice versa with low achievers. Even though generally summer borns achieve lower overall nationally when you look at individual classes it's very varied.

[Helix1244]

Whether dc get met/exceeded will largely depend on the effort the teachers put in to log the observations or listen to the dc reading.
My ds eyfs profile was extremely inaccurate. And i probably should have challenged it. But obviously you cannot see how other dc are doing. Magically they finally listened to them read in jun and moved up several levels. The vast majority of other obs were of the whole year group. So no knowledge if they individually did meet/exceed etc that activity. The other obs is obviously what they happen to see. Plus i dont like eyfs as i think there is a thing about them choosing independently. Well lots of kids do not choose to read/write even paint if they can play. I liken this to imagining that with an adult you would know if they speak another language without asking or if they can do alevel maths.
Obviously if a child goes in and is measured as meeting or even exceeding some targets they have fewer to tick off. If they go in far below a lot of work needs to be done in those 8m. (Something like 17 targets).
So summer children needto possibly progress from 30-50 to 40-60+.

[Myothercarisalsoshit]

Helix Lazy teachers eh? 🤐

[MrsElijahMikaelson1]

I would take it all with a pinch of salt. EYFS curriculum currently doesn’t marry up with KS1 so the jump is huge-so you may find that she is at expecting in year 1-that doesn’t mean she’s falling behind or losing momentum, it is just that it is a big jump

[GreenTulips]

And i probably should have challenged it. But obviously you cannot see how other dc are doing

What others achieve is irrelevant
They are individual targets not rated against class mates

The teachers will look and see who’s got most ticked and who hasn’t and will focus on those children to tick the targets

[Helix1244]

Well yes so it's quite possible if you meet end of year targets very early they may not observe for that again to see if they are now exceeding.

I dont doubt the teachers are busy doing something. (But it certainly wasnt generally listening to reading).
However there certainly could be reasons to do with school progress measures etc.

[candlefloozy]

Interesting reading everyone's replies - thanks for those. I've always thought she was bright but never vocalised it to anyone as I just thought every parent thought that.
I had heard that there was such a massive difference between reception and ks1 too. Im just glad she's enjoying it.