school gave results to someone else

thegirlintheattic

I've never heard of a reception child being held back, it's extremely rare for any child, of any age, to be held back, so don't worry OP.

re: lateness, given the circumstances perhaps a passing comment at nursery would be enough. You don't need to make a big deal about it unless it keeps happening.

GobbledyGook

I would mention the lateness to the nursery. I wouldn't mind that on occasion my child was late - these things happen. However I would mind massively that they hadn't bothered to tell me about it.

I wouldn't make a big fuss, just comment that you were surprised to be informed about it by the school report and would like them to let you know if it happens again.

Spendless

I've only ever heard of 2 children being held back in Reception, both boys who are my eldest's age. The 1st had missed a lot of schooling during reception and changed schools mid-way due to the split up of his parents during this time. He spent 1 extra full term in Reception, then moved into his yr 1 class from Jan.

The other, the child is autistic and has remained in the year below ever since. He should have gone to Secondary school last year with my son, but didn't. There are other autistic children at the school who are in their correct year, so I can only guess that this is because this child has additional needs and is in agreeance with his parents.

Does your child have extra needs and you are worrying about whether he is able to go on to yr 1? I can see if this is the case then you would want to know before other people - but would they really only let you find out via a school report and not chat to you first? If his class only has 15 pupils then kids would become aware anyway that he has remained in Reception as it sounds like it's a small school? My own son left Reception unable to read his key words, by yr 4 he'd been identified as having a very good ability in Science, which has remained so. Try not to worry too much about what they are capable of at this age because it can change.

With regards to nursery what about saying 'Has there been a problem in getting X to nursery as he's had some late marks on his report'. It opens up the conversation to them telling you if there's been an unavoidable issue that they hadn't thought to inform you about (eg another child was sick on the way out of the door) or if they just need to be more organised with their time-keeping.

pleasedelete

nahidaakhtar wrote: »

Lotus-eater

i'm not sure tbh, that was a worry of mine due to not having the result, on the info accompanying the report it said they had to achieve 78 out of a potential 120.

i only have the report to go on which is good but surely if he wasnt meeting the target they would have said.

The only issues have been with writing one or two letter and how my child was holding the pencil are these things that are looked at?

As I explained in previous post if they scored 78 they woud be below average. The 78 and 6 in each area of psed and cll is an outdated target based on la level psa targets. Never designed to be used at child or school level. Over the past few years the national good level of development has gone up considerably.

It's an unfit outmoded measure which is ending this year. If you are really interested you need to ask the school about the average point score benchmarked to 2011 national for boys and girls.

pleasedelete

The guidance is that all children should be back with their own age by the end of each key stage. Reception, year 2 and year 6 are the end of key stages. it is very poor practice to keep children out of age as their long term educational outcomes are low as they can leave school at 16 without having taken gcses.

meritaten

a clear breach of the 'Data Protection Act'. this is confidential information and naturally you do not want details of someone elses child and suspect their parents of having details of yours.
if the school wont take it seriously, then tell them you intend to complain and suggest they contact the LEAs legal advisor. As you will be contacting yours.
The fines for breaches of this nature are enough for them to sit up and take notice!
of course - if all you want is YOUR childs results - then fine. they should give you those on Monday morning. along with a firm assurance that this will never happen again!
Doesnt hurt to know your rights though.

jellyhead

I don't think they will keep your child in reception if his scores are low (it can happen but they'd have spoken to you before now if that was a possibility, surely) - they probably mean that he'll go into year 1 but will be working at a lower level than some of the others, so his targets might be different.

My son and most of his friends scored lower than average in reception (they were the youngest and were still 4 when reception ended). When we went in for parents evening each term the teacher would tell us which level they were working at in maths and literacy, and for the children who struggled a bit in reception sometimes they were still on 'p' levels at the end of the first term in year 1.

The teacher wasn't worried and he said they were still very young, and as long as they made some progress and learned to read we shouldn't worry.

If it's just their results I wouldn't stress too much about things. Even if the other mum is a b!tchy competitive type I'm sure she won't talk to other mums about your son's results. Unless confidential health and medication were discussed then I don't think it's too much of a problem, but school can be very worrying when it's your first child.

duchy

shellsuit wrote: »

Should that be 'leaves', or should it be 'leave'?

Hmmm?

I don't know why people like you bother to comment on a thread, when it's only to have a pop at the OP on their spelling, language or grammar, and has nothing to do with the help the OP needs.

Surely you have better things to do with your time?!


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OP, I'd have a word in school and tell them you are unhappy. I wouldn't go in all guns blazing, but I would say something.

Good Luck

Leave not leaves.

I was quite shocked when I worked at as a LSA to be approached by several teachers asking me who X or Y child was as they weren't sure.....and then went on to ask me what their attainment was like -at report time. If I knew who every single child who was in a class (despite the fact I was there to only support one or two named children in each class) I blinking well expected the teachers who spent the same time with them AND marked their homework to know ! It was a minority and the teachers I thought were weaker...but I wasn't impressed !

nahidaakhtar

jellyhead

Thank you very much for your post, its made me feel a whole lot better. My child will also still be four when reception ends.

It is my first child and you right it is worrying. You dont know whether you should make a fuss or let things go. You dont want to be labeled a problem parent but on the other hand you dont want to seen as someone who won't complain.

As i said in an earlier post i was asked what the childs who's results i received in error were, and i said that it wasnt my place to say. Simply because i would hate to find out my childs were being discussed.

i dont know the other parent but there is alot of competitiveness/gossiping. In that sort of environment the last thing you want is someone knowing your child has done well or not so well.

real1314

Jessikita1983 wrote: »

Before worrying about this, maybe you could return to school and do a basic literacy course? Your punctuation and grammar leaves a lot to be desired!

As others have said, this is a classic over-reaction to a simple error; and in drawing attention to the error you have made yourself look rather foolish.

In addition to the failure to recognise the plurality of factors, you have also used a question mark inappropriately; using the word 'maybe' to infer a question, when it cannot be used this way in written english. Had you been quoting speech it would have been acceptable.

It maybe that you to struggle with grammer? Maybe you do; Maybe you don't.



On the other hand, the OP has over-reacted; considered and responded to the views they had sought and re-assessed their attitude.

You could learn from the OP's example. :cool: