Sucessful Appeal for Bucks 120/115 score
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:45 pm
Last week we attended the appeals panel and had a sucessful appeal for our son who scored 120/115 on the two papers.
Our submission to the panel included a Headteacher's report who was very supportive and his predictions of 5B's for Maths and Writing and 5A for Reading. He was rated 2/1 (academic/effort). We also submitted his Y5 report as this was part of our evidence.
Our son is a late July child (22nd) and we argued our case on three grounds
1. Academic performance at school
2. Late born summer child who has only engaged with learning recently
3. Out of catchment child who found the process stressful
We prepared an 8 page document with our argumentation on (double spaced so they could write notes) which cross referenced the Headteacher's statement and his Y5 report. One of the key things which helped our case was his KS1 SATS which we 2B's and a 3 so he is predicted a 3 level uplift in Maths and Writing.
For the academic side we also included his Science prediction (High L5).
The evidence we took in addition to our documentation was the 8 page appeal (printed 5 times), his KS1 Sats results and his Y4 report to show engagement with learning from Y5 onwards.
We tried to cover as many points as we could in the submission that we thought they would ask including
Why he got 115 on the second test
His range of reading
Out of school activities
Evidence of academic performance elsewhere
Support from home
How he reacted to not passing
Musical ability
Most of the ideas for our submission came from reading the forums and talking to friends who had been through the appeal.
The panel was very easy and listened attentively. The one tricky question which we had anticipated was why we had no school work, we answered that we didn't want to be seen to 'cherry pick' work, which they seemed to accept. Other questions were around
Did he finish the exam (he did with a few minutes to spare)
How was he on the way to the exam
Was there anyone else from his cohort there
Who helped him prepare (for us as we are out of catchment it was us)
What does he do out of school
What marks did he get at home on the practice test (I said 72/73 out of 80)
How big was the school
What does he do in the gifted Maths Class
The whole interview lasted about 30-40 minutes and the panel were very fair and non threatening.
Thank you for all your posts as it helped us get through the panel and appeals process. If anyone has any questions please let us know.
Good luck to you all.
Our submission to the panel included a Headteacher's report who was very supportive and his predictions of 5B's for Maths and Writing and 5A for Reading. He was rated 2/1 (academic/effort). We also submitted his Y5 report as this was part of our evidence.
Our son is a late July child (22nd) and we argued our case on three grounds
1. Academic performance at school
2. Late born summer child who has only engaged with learning recently
3. Out of catchment child who found the process stressful
We prepared an 8 page document with our argumentation on (double spaced so they could write notes) which cross referenced the Headteacher's statement and his Y5 report. One of the key things which helped our case was his KS1 SATS which we 2B's and a 3 so he is predicted a 3 level uplift in Maths and Writing.
For the academic side we also included his Science prediction (High L5).
The evidence we took in addition to our documentation was the 8 page appeal (printed 5 times), his KS1 Sats results and his Y4 report to show engagement with learning from Y5 onwards.
We tried to cover as many points as we could in the submission that we thought they would ask including
Why he got 115 on the second test
His range of reading
Out of school activities
Evidence of academic performance elsewhere
Support from home
How he reacted to not passing
Musical ability
Most of the ideas for our submission came from reading the forums and talking to friends who had been through the appeal.
The panel was very easy and listened attentively. The one tricky question which we had anticipated was why we had no school work, we answered that we didn't want to be seen to 'cherry pick' work, which they seemed to accept. Other questions were around
Did he finish the exam (he did with a few minutes to spare)
How was he on the way to the exam
Was there anyone else from his cohort there
Who helped him prepare (for us as we are out of catchment it was us)
What does he do out of school
What marks did he get at home on the practice test (I said 72/73 out of 80)
How big was the school
What does he do in the gifted Maths Class
The whole interview lasted about 30-40 minutes and the panel were very fair and non threatening.
Thank you for all your posts as it helped us get through the panel and appeals process. If anyone has any questions please let us know.
Good luck to you all.