One of those week's where I'm struggling with lots of things at by DD's secondary school....
DD mentioned in conversation yesterday that they had done a short English assessment not long after starting school and grades had been given out yesterday which most kids were taken a back by ....
This is the top English set and most grades were a 2B....there were a few grade 3B's and a couple 4b's.
My Dd's grade was 3B....she has consistently worked at a secure level 5 since the beginning of year 6 bordering a level 6 on leaving her last school and was a 3A at the end of year 4 (CATS and selective independent school results were also above average/scored highly (reading age 14 plus).
I dropped the school a note to day because I am concerned at this grade even though it was in the first few weeks...DD stated that the comments were all very positive with good imagination used etc.
The feedback on all other subjects seems to be fine although they are just doing various assessments/tests at the moment.
On another matter I'm finding behavior in some mixed ability classes like History/French unacceptable ...kids using phones to video other kids playing up and kids eating sweets .... on the other hand the Maths teacher gave out detentions to half the class which was OTT and resulted in a number of complaints by parents given that allot of the homework had not been covered in class work and the detention was the very next day.... It's all a bit inconsistent at the moment...
The school Oftsed grade is Good and exam results are improving (it did have a feeder school that was put into special measures then closed down)
Has anyone else found this ?