NC levels in year 7- I am turning into one of ^those^ parents.......!!!

[seeker]

Do you all know what level your year 7 child is working at, and what their targets are? If so, are you willing to share? If not, do you know when you will/do you want to/are you bothered?

And does your child bring marked/commented on homework home regularly?

I have a parent's evening next week, and I am very keen not to appear to be a git with unrealistic expectations......!

Hi BalloonSlayer. Dd has been getting 8's since year 7 and so did a couple of boys in her classes. Some teachers apparently give them out for "exceptional work" or something like that. If they do an assessment and they do better than is needed and put a lot more work into it, then the teacher may give an 8. If that makes sense!! Maths is the only one i think that is a "proper" 8. But now dd is in year 9 the marks are gcse marks. I actually have a question. Are the A grades disappearing? Dd said that teachers have said that there will be no more A and that A will be the limit.

ibizagirl. Haven't you said many times before that your dd had taken her Maths GCSE in yr7 or 6?

I think ibizagirl's dd and her school are unique. I suspect I know which school it is, qnd if I'm right, it is a bit of a law unto itself.

Ibizagirl- just to reassure you, I won't name the school.

Ds is in Yr8 now but I was told which levels he was working at in Yr7 when I met his tutor for the first time. IIRC it was around this time of year.

I didn't ask. The information was automatically given to parents. There was a list which showed the levels given by the primary school at the end of Yr6, the baseline assessment results at the beginning of Yr7, and the end-of-KS3 targets.

For the following term I only knew what levels ds was working at if he came home and told me. This was usually in the context of "I got a level X in my test/project last week" or "Mr A said the work we did today was a level YZ."

At Easter all parents were sent a copy of their child's current levels, and then again in the end-of-Yr7 report.

Homework is usually marked and commented on.

BlueElephant90. Yes thats right. Dd took maths gcse in year 7. Not took any others at the moment.

Seeker. Go on then, what area are we looking at, just for a bit of fun!! Not sure what you mean about school a law unto itself. But you may know more than i do.

If it's this week then it's the begining of Y7 so levels don't matter. Y7 wipes the slate clean.

At this stage the only things I'd be asking about would be: is she/he making an effort and is she/he being sociable.

In Y7 all we can ask for is application and sociability.