National curriculum levels

[wotaday]

Can someone pleaase explain nc levels? Does levels 1c 1b 1a equate to expected achiements in year 1 etc.

Thank you

If you go on the QCA website it explains the expectations for each level.

In general terms, SATs (the national exams children take at Y2 should be achieving level 2a/b/c and if bright Level 3. This is very general though and with children of this age much is determined by events on the day i.e. if they had a good breakfast and did not fall out with their best friend before they took the test.
Hope this helps a little.

Dalex, SAT results in Y2 aren't reported these days - the grade reported is a teacher assessment made up of many sources of evidence, of which the tests are a very small part. So if a child did fall out with their best friend and so achieved a 2c on a test one day, but performed at a 2b for the rest of their classwork (written or otherwise) over a period of time, then the 2b would be reported.

To the op, very generally speaking:

An 'average' end of Y1 child should achieve a 1a.
An 'average' end of Y2 child should achieve a 2b.
An 'average' end of Y3 child should achieve a 2a/3c
An 'average' end of Y4 child should achieve a b.
An 'average' end of Y5 child should achieve a 3a/4c
And an 'average' end of Y6 child should achieve a 4b.

Disclaimer - there is no such thing as an average child, and they are not little robots who make neat measured steps of progress!

It's not the average it is the 'expected ' level.In practice two very different things

It was originally the average level though, but was surrepticiously changed to the expected level as tests got easier standards improved.