Year 7 interim report. Incomprehensible!

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Art:

TA - 3c

Progress - meeting expectation

Predicted for end of year - 4c

Eh? A whole level in half a year if she is not exceeding expectations? Is this a new thing or a mistake do you think?

When I taught, pupils would on average be expected to progress through only two sub-levels in a whole year.

Technology:

TA - 4b

Progress - above expectation

Predicted for end of year - 4a

Same thing with P.E. Assessed at 5b, above expectation for progress yet expected to still be 5b in July.

Am I missing something really obvious other than the fact that levels are probably not worth tracking so frequently?

Sublevels are shit.

I would reckon that levels are only good for tracking progress from one summer to the next, tops.

All this target and current level stuff on reports is basically made up by the teachers and that's why it's different between subjects.

That's what I was thinking. I suppose it's a bit like if you want to gain or lose weight (which is far more immediate) - you shouldn't weigh yourself every day because you'd get a lot of misleading and probably disheartening data.

I think it is mostly made up. I once gave in a set of results strictly from QCA tests for Yr 3 pupils and was told to doctor them down as the HT was worried that they had made too much progress and might not keep it up in subsequent years.

They are unless, go to parents evening and talk to the teachers in person.

The sublevels go up and down. Some subjects start at 4-5. but new things like MFL may give 3s.

The teachers have to give sub levels, but I get the feeling they don't like them much.
DD1 gets decimal sub levels in maths which are utterly mad.

As creaky says they are exactly like weighing your self everyday.

A good essay or a maths topic you understand = salad and grilled fish.

An incomprehensible poem and the maths lesson you dozed of in= steak chips and treacle pudding.

Good and bad outcomes are lost in the noise.

The predicted levels are to the end of ks3 not the year

Cheers startail. you are right about MFL. French was a 2a but it's new to her.

sickandtired so DD is exceeding progress expectations for P.E and is predicted to stay at the same level she is at now at the end of KS3? And only progress through one sub-level in technology during the next couple of years too?

Hi I know it seems mad but we had this in year 7 and again yesterday where all predicted levels have gone up. I Think it's what they think for end of ks3 but this changed every year based on how they are doing... I had notes with my levels explaining that it was until the end of year 9 but I don't know if that is just DD school or if that's what all schools do.