Confused by end of Year 7 report

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Hi.
My son has just received his end of year report. He has just come to the end of his first year in secondary school. I am so confused by all the numbers. I was hoping someone with a better understanding of the grading system would be able to shed some light.
The school uses the new number grades for assessments. My son has been given a minimum expected grade of 5 for all subjects, except for English in which he has a minimum expected grade of 6. He has achieved a range of grades between 2 (for Dance) and 5 (for English).
Could someone please tell me what this means??

You will need to ask the school if they use their own grading system or if they are guessing what he might get for gcses as there hasn't been a full set of 9-1 gcses yet to base numerical grades on.

@ReserviorDogs
They are using the new GCSE grading system for the subjects that are now going by them and guessing the other subjects..

The grades could be 'performing at' thought that seems unlikely.
So more likely it means 'carry on like this and you are on track to get'.
Alternatively it could mean 'we've marked the year on a bell curve and this is where you are if we map bell curve onto curves for GCSE grades'.

See noblegiraffes thread on flightpaths.

Broadly speaking, from his KS2 SATs he is doing about as expected, not quite living up to his (high?) English SATs, and doing poorly at dance (but do you really care about that?).

Another thing to watch out for is that the predicted grades are all different. So, our school does a target grade based on end y6 tests, a working at grade and a prediction for the end of year 9. They are based on GCSE grades despite the fact that by the end of Y9 they aren’t even doing gcse work except in science.
Other schools locally do a ‘working towards’ meaning a guess at the final GCSE grade.
What annoys me is when schools send home data sheets without explaining what the data means! You need a context to see if there’s an issue.

Where I work students in year 7 would all be roughly on Grade 2's or 3's. They also get given a predicted grade for end of key stage 3 (end of year 9), which would usually be 5's or 6's.