accessing the curriculum - duh

[madsadlibrarian]

woo hoo my ds is accessing the curriculum - they tell me at review meeting at school today. Trouble is I don't actually know what they really mean by this - does it mean he is keeping up with the work in class ?
that's what I assumed it would mean - but everything else they said seemed to suggest he is on another planet most of the day...tried googling but am none the wiser...

accessing the curriculum is code for - is able to understand a few bits of what the other kids are doing in class. For instance, if they are doing money in class, learning about 1,2, 5p coins etc, my boy can be "accessing the curriculum" if he just counts 3 coins in front of him and then pretends to give them to someone to pay for an imaginary purchase. It means that he is somewhere on the same page as the other kids, if not right up at their level. Actually , it is not necessary for a kid in mainstream to access the curriculum, that is not actually a legal requirement I found out recently. They can be assessed using an entirely different system - called the P scales, which will eventually lead up to 1a of the national curriculum. does that all make any sense?

My yr 7 DD was still on p scales for maths halfway through yr 6 despite having been on school action plus since 3 1/2...In one term at a fairly good mainstream secondary she's now working at lvl 2H. Right up until the end of yr6, all I kept getting told was she was 'accessing the curriculum', yeah looking at a bunch of meaningless (to her) numbers on a page....