End of year 7 results?

[Devonishome1]

We have Go for schools that tells us online how our daughter is performing in her lessons. When she was at primary school I understood what the grades mean. I now have no idea really on where she's at. She's getting a mixture of 4a's,4b,5a,5b and 5cs.
Are these scores around average for her year group at the end of the year?

Every school has its own assessment grades and criteria.

Oh dear....none the wiser then!

What Cauliflower says.

However IF the school is still using the old NC levels, then the 4s are OK end y7 (especially if in non core subjects) and the 5s are fine. You might even expect the language to be a 3.

However if your DCs got 110+ last year the 4s would be low.

What is really rubbish is that they are giving you grades with no explanation!

Thanks. I'll dig out her resultsnfrom last year as I can't remember off hand.

Secondary school grading is harsher than junior school - as the criteria is different - she may well look as though she's gone backwards

Check her 'expected scores' or 'predicted' grades to see if she's in track for GCSE or Whatever

DD was level 6 in year 6 - dropped to level 5 in year 7 - now level 8 in year 9 - so all good

That looks like old NC levels... but most schools are not using them any longer. A lot of schools are making up their own systems in all of the confusion. If they are old NC levels then they look ok.
It's rubbish that they haven't given you any explanation of grades !

• Teachers moan for years about the National Curriculum. "Just let us teach and not be bound by this structure!"
• Government removes National Curriculum in KS3
• Teachers lose the plot over sudden lack of structure. "How are we supposed to structure this!"

Seriously, though, you just need to ask the school what those grades represent.

I agree with just asking.

My ds changed schools in year 7 to 8. I got a data capture and had no idea what it meant compared to old schools system.

A quick explanation and the numbers made sense.

Helpfully his school also do a simple above, expected and below expected rate of progress measure.

The government hasn't got rid of the KS3 curriculum, they've just got rid of any standard way of assessing it and told schools to make their own stuff up. This has predictably ended up with total confusion.