KS 3 levels

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Can someone help me to decipher what they mean? My Year 7 DS's report card came home with levels for English reading, writing and maths but no key to explain what they mean. Are they related at all to KS 2 levels cos I do have a little booklet on those! We moved back to the UK last year so this whole NC levels thing is a bit difficult.

The NC levels do indeed run for KS1, KS2 and KS3.

So if your child finished y6 on a 4b for maths, he might now be a 4a or 5c for maths.

Some secondaries don't use letters but use decimals instead as it makes it easier to average. e.g. at our school 5.0 = 5c, 5.3=5b and 5.7=5a

Broadly speaking you might expect maths English and science to be a bit higher than end Ks2. Other subjects (do you not have levels for all of them?) may be a bit lower, and languages may be as low as level 2 depending on how much they knew before.

By the end of y9 you would be hoping for at least high level 5 to be aiming for a pass at current GCSE system, level 7 (or level 8?) for the top achievers.