What should my child be able to by end of P2 in Scotland?

[mrsappletree9]

Any teachers on here from a Scotland? I am hoping you can let me know if my daughter is on track. Her teacher says she needs to work on her addition and her reading but didn’t say she was off track at all.

she can-
count to 100 mostly without mistakes
she couldn’t count backwards without help apart from down from 20
she can add numbers lower than 10 mostly in her head but struggles to take away eg. Can do 6+3 but if I ask her 9-3 she would struggle without using her fingers
she can say the 2 and 5 times table but only by memorising the order so can’t answer what is 5x5 for example
she can read up to block 5 on her common words which is about 70 words
she can sound out words that have the normal
sound for letters eg she could read the word attack or yoghurt but doesn’t know words like stone as she doesn’t understand the “magic e” I believe it’s called.
She can write at length doing lots of sounding out for example “I went to the shops with my mum and dad and I bot a sweet and then we went back to are hawse” (spelling mistakes intended!)
I have no concerns with her relationships etc- purely academic

I have tried google but can just see the CFE outcomes and it doesn’t really say in real terms what she should be able to do! Any advice appreciated! And thanks for reading!

Have a look at the 'benchmarks' for Literacy and Maths. They break down what is generally expected in order to be on track at each stage.

This school has some useful documents:
trinity-pri.com/benchmarks-for-literacy-and-numeracy/

You could try asking for results of her Scottish National Standardised Assessment. These aren’t generally made available to parents but you could always request it via a subject access request.

Thank you that webpage is quite useful! I will ask her teacher how she got on with that assessment too. I think her literacy is okay going by that site. Numeracy isn’t though. We will need to do more at home! Thanks again for your replies. X

Don’t they only do those at P1,4 & 7 so her P1 results would be quite a bit out of date?

Ah yes you are right. I misread it as the end of P1.

Your child should be capable of doing what they are capable of doing - stop the comparisons! If you want explicit directions talk to the teacher. If she’s not off track why you are worried? Teacher and parent in Scotland

Your child should be capable of doing what they are capable of doing - stop the comparisons!

It is this sort of unhelpful nonsense that results in children being failed for years before parents realise. And when applied Scotland-wide leads to the complacency that we see amongst politicians about falling standards. It means we are told children are achieving their ‘expected level’ without being told what level expected of them. This is why they don’t want parents to know the results of SNSA. At the end of the day it IS about comparisons - our children will be compared to others to get college spaces, university places and employment.

Hello

Glasgow Counts has teachers for P2. You're looking for first level, first tracker ( re maths).

The school will probably have done their own InCAS assessments on your child too. There are tonnes of tutor groups like kumon, I explore etc that will assess levels if you can’t get more detailed information from the school, sometimes worth doing those things for peace of mind.

I’d be slightly concerned in your shoes about the reading. I’m not a teacher though but I never think a bit of extra parent input hurts. I found the jolly phonics sticker/colouring books on Amazon good for magic e etc.

I will compare my child as I want to be the best support I can be for her and want to know how and what I can use to help her. If you’re a teacher surely you’d want a parent of a struggling child to be acting in this way? If you actually read my post I only said the teacher didn’t SAY she was off track but she has to work on things. She didn’t say she was ON track either. Hence my post.

Thanks everyone else for your replies- quite a few things to look into! X