Is it odd to have really good marks in Maths & English ad to be not reaching your targets in everything else?

[KatyMac]

Well except cookery?

I thought it was a bit unusual but DD says her targets are not fair.....so how do I find out if they are fair?

Who sets the targets and how?

Don't really know

Someone at school I guess

The targets are quite often set by the Fisher Family Trust and are linked to the SATS scores that the DC get in Y6. It's supposed to be a guide, but in my DS's case, that is not true.

Well I did some research (asking other mums) & all her friends are in about the same place (there targets are randomly different)

Who are the Fisher Family Trust?

The Fischer Family Trust is a company who take SATs data and something like 20 other variables including ethnicity, post code, free school meal status and use it to generate the result that the average child with the same profile as yours would get in each subject.

As it is only based on Maths, English and Science results, it can produce very odd targets, like an A at GCSE Art for an academic student who can't draw for toffee. It is generated by a computer who doesn't know your individual child at all.

Yes post codes was mentioned by some of the other parents

How odd

It could also be that if you are naturally good at Maths and English they are subjects which it is possible to do well at without breaking into a sweat

other subjects, especially those which children haven't done much before, might need a bit more of an effort

ds1 puts no effort into maths and not much into english but gets consistently high marks - however he needs to pull his finger out a teensy bit in order to do well in Spanish for instance