Are there any teachers about??? and can you please answer me some questions on grades and reports etc........

[Psychomum5]

DD1 and DD2 have received their reports.

now I am pleased with them in the whole....they are making progress and their attitude to learning is good (which is what I tell them I want)....

BUT

they get grades like 4c/5a/6b etc.

they are graded on yr6 (or yr8) grades, spring term grades, what they are working at now grades, and what their aim is grades.

problem is, I have no idea what they should be on.....there is no idication what the average is, what the rest of the class is roughly achieving, what the government reckons they should be achieving.

bow, I can see where their grades have improved.....I can see where their grades have not improved........what I cannot get is whether they are working to what they should be, above what they should be, or below.......do you understand???

I hav tried to ask the school....they claim not to get what I am asking......apparently I am asking for the grades for all the girls in their classes....I am not....I want to know if my girls are keeping up with where they should, or dropping, or are above where they should be.

sooooooo

anyone help???

if anyone knows the rough averages for yr7 and yr9 on all subjects (not just core subjects), that would be wonderful.

OR, if you can tell me why their teachers cannot tell me (as when I ask they seem to busy to explain), that also would be wonderful.

TIA

Wow, excellent progress. Actually it looks very hard to call your daughter since she's catching up. And the school sound on top of things.

Actually I loathe levels. The pupils say to me is that an A or a B? Much happier with grades at GCSE. And running a two-tier system for KS3 & KS4 is stupid. This year for year 9 I've had to mark in levels but report in grades - how daft is that?

I suppose it's because an a grade is better than a b which is better than a c!

the whole thing is most confusing - what does it all mean anyway - you can get easy and hard level 6 questions... for example! And in the maths SATs you can be awarded a level 6 without having to get many of the level 6 questions correct... as it's just the number of marks awarded on a paper rather than looking at particular questions IYSWIM

cat, yes, some of the marks do make more sense seeing as she has only been doing those subjects for the past year. and I tend to agree that a lot of the confusion is government related!!

heated, I am very very chuffed with her.

worzella.......very confusing!