Test results in primary school

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I was just wondering if others schools provide your child's test results to you.

Our school is always saying they want their parents to engage more and be more involved in their kids education but then say its not school policy to release the test results, which would help know areas of improvement, and if their child is improving with tangible results.

I was just wondering if other areas release these papers or marks.

Not sure I ever saw any test results when my kids were in primary school.

I'm sure they may well have progress meetings but I can sit in a tick box meeting with my boss as well.

Internal scrutiny is not the same as external culpability. It may be different for kids who sit in the middle of the data range (or close to hitting exceeding) but when you have kids in the top 1% I can tell you that there is absolutely NOT the same drive in school to progress their education as much as there would be if their progress would make an actual difference to results by going from average to exceeding etc.

You can tell which people have never worked in schools and have no idea what they're talking about 😀

But that's the same as any job isn't it? Some things are measured and prioritised, and some aren't. I'd say teaching is unusual in how much work, often unpaid, is put into all the immeasurable things. I certainly focused almost entirely on the measured KPIs in my old role.

They aren't tick box meetings. They're brutal.

KPIS in teaching are the results, that's what schools are ultimately judged on. Unfortunately it is impossible to get the results without the work that goes into the unmeasurable stuff. You can't raise results without a relationship, relationships are complex.

You're right, the reality is that if your child is the highest attaining child in the year group, which top 1% would be, the teacher in a state primary is not going to be focussing on them, when they probably have several children who are working below expected standard or have SEN in the class.
The aim of state education is not to provide the best education for each child individually, but to provide a 'good enough' education that meets the needs of the majority, whilst aiming to raise standards across the board.