Teachers please - Y4 expected SATS levels

smartimarti123

Hi my daughter has dislexia and has had tutoring for 6 months and her grades have gone up her reading is improved so much but her sats results were all 3C for English Reading Speaking and Listining but 2A in writing although her teacher says she has gone up 2levels this year duets him in my opinion he is brilliant and the tutoring and my homework with her is this ok still I know her dislexia holds her back with the spelling and her work is well thought out and to a high standard it's just the spelling that lets her down u can totally understand what she has written its just spelt back to front sometimes so why don't they take her dislexia in to account in the marking it seems unfair

angelil

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

My Y7 daughter sits L6-8 papers for Maths. (She also sat this in Y6 FYI.)

The top 25 ish in the year group will be working at L8 by this time in Y8, each year. The top third of the year group achieve L7+ by the end of Y8.

Top 25 out of how many? Meaningless statistic.

I had also thought L8 was the highest possible level of achievement (as in the highest that's assessed) in Year 9 - not Year 8 - making thatgirlsam's daughter's achievement even more remarkable.

thatgirlsam: I hope that your daughter is still being well-supported

pollypenny

smartimarti123 wrote: »

Hi my daughter has dislexia and has had tutoring for 6 months and her grades have gone up her reading is improved so much but her sats results were all 3C for English Reading Speaking and Listining but 2A in writing although her teacher says she has gone up 2levels this year duets him in my opinion he is brilliant and the tutoring and my homework with her is this ok still I know her dislexia holds her back with the spelling and her work is well thought out and to a high standard it's just the spelling that lets her down u can totally understand what she has written its just spelt back to front sometimes so why don't they take her dislexia in to account in the marking it seems unfair

Her dyslexia will be taken into account. Spelling is just one criterion. She will be given credit for her vocabulary, for imagination and for comprehension.

Lunar_Eclipse

angelil wrote: »

Top 25 out of how many? Meaningless statistic.

I had also thought L8 was the highest possible level of achievement (as in the highest that's assessed) in Year 9 - not Year 8 - making thatgirlsam's daughter's achievement even more remarkable.

thatgirlsam: I hope that your daughter is still being well-supported

I don't understand why you think it's meaningless, because my point is that in our school, children are working at this level. If it helps, the cohort is 250, so the top 10% achieve level 8 in Y8 (we do a 2 year KS3 curriculum.) I think you are correct that level 8 is the highest level assessed. The assessed levels should span 100% of pupils though, which I doubt they do.

We've just had our SATS results. Y8 daughter got level 8 in Maths, Y6 daughter achieved level 6 in Maths & English (which the top 1% of the country achieve nationally if this makes it 'meaningful'.) Personally, I'm not the least bit interested in how my children perform in relation to their peers and (meaningless) government targets. I'm interested in them learning at an appropriate level for their ability and children not being under challenged or pushed inappropriately.

susancs

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

We've just had our SATS results. Y8 daughter got level 8 in Maths, Y6 daughter achieved level 6 in Maths & English (which the top 1% of the country achieve nationally if this makes it 'meaningful'.) Personally, I'm not the least bit interested in how my children perform in relation to their peers and (meaningless) government targets. I'm interested in them learning at an appropriate level for their ability and children not being under challenged or pushed inappropriately.

The problem sometimes with ks2 and ks3 SATS results is that they can give parents the view that their child should always be working at the level they attained and if they are not they are not being challenged or given appropriate work. However levels can rise and fall depending on whether they are learning a new topic or skill. They can also be overall a high grade in a subject but be weaker in a part of the subject. For example my daughter always excelled at physical geography, but was weaker at human geography.