OK - all you all 3s in Year 2 parents - what do you expect from year 3?

[seeker]

My ds got all 3s in his year 2 SATS (one of 4 boys in the year who did) and I am a bit concerned about how they are going to maintain his interest in year 3. He's a typical boy and I know he'll go walkabout mentally if he's not kept working. But I don't want him pushed too hard or to be a pushy mother - he's only 7 and I think he should be having as much fun as possible. But I know that he has been stretched quite a lot by an excellent teacher in year 2 - and loved it - and I want to make sure the same happens next year. Any thoughts?

our school gives out the results of the non-published SATs, but as a score, not a level

IME yr3 is great for brighter children. Because the SATs pressure is far distant in yr3 the curriculum tends to be more flexible and more rounded. Throughout KS2 both my boys have had lots of opportunities for extension work, and extentended projects and so on, researching and investigating things.

Thank you everyone. I realize that in the scheme of things all 3s at KS2 are very common, but they aren't at ds's school - especially for boys. It's a fab school in lots of very important ways, but it has a very socially and economically mixed catchment area, and its academic results are not brilliant. I know that the focus will, quite rightly, be on the "under achievers" so I know I need to keep a watchful eye on my ds. we chose the school for the rich experiences it gives children - there are others nearer us where more than half the class get all 3s. I want to make sure ds doesn't miss out on achieving academically if he's capable at the same time as gaining all the other stuff this school can give him.

Look at it this way; There will be no more 'under achievers' next year than this year yet this year he still achieved above the national average so they must be doing something right.
Schools care about stretching the bright kids just as much as raising the level of those who struggle. It shameful to admit but if a situation ever arises where a teacher's time is spread too thinly it's the well-behaved 'middling' kids who miss out. This doesn't happen in my class because I'm aware how easily it happens IYKWIM but I've seen it time and time again. Teachers will always push the bright kids though unless they (the teacher)are really crap at their job.

Seeker - my sons are at a very similar school, but have loved their time there so far. I too worried that there would not be the other children to enable them to be challenged, but there are a handful and tbh, the I think the teachers enjoy this group, so they get more attention than they would at a school where everyone is "bright".

I don't think the focus is on the under achivers anymore. It's the average who get forgotten imo.