Unsuccessful Bucks selection review but think not FCO
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 9:31 pm
I’d value some advice or thoughts on our situation if possible.
Unfortunately our dd was unsuccessful at selection review with a score of 113.
To summarise - recommended 1:1 and predicted 111-120 across all 3 subject areas. 3b for lit, and 3c for others for ks1. Working at GDS across all 3 subject areas across yrs 3,4 and 5 consistently.
Extenuating circumstances were that she had a v disrupted year 5 with inconsistent teaching due to teacher absence. This was stated in a recent Ofsted report. We moved her school due to these issues in April 2017 as she was so unhappy so she only had 1 term in her new school. New head concurred that score was not reflective of her capability and confidence had been knocked by school change. When we submitted the review evidence the previous school was (still is) in such turmoil with an interim head that they said they did not have any assessments to share (no time /interim head didn’t know her). We were never informed of any Cats at the first school so no idea if they did them so could not include them ourselves other than the ‘GDS’ shown on the report. So our academic evidence was limited but included Pirls and Puma assessments standardised assessments from new school with age standardised scores of 130 and 131. Without knowing what the objective criteria are for the reviews how could we know this would not be enough evidence? If we had known we would have waited to go for appeal and sought more evidence.
Selection review outcome ticks the statement: they could not wholly agree with the expected performance levels...” and the reason given was “since child at school for one term panel questioned info provided”. But if 2 schools have found her to be working at GDS then surely that’s better than 1 school?!? Consistency of opinion?
I would think this process of selection review was not fair or consistent as it was not able to consider other evidence given time constraints and there was no way for us to get more given first schools lack of help. If we could get this now and ask her current school to undertake some Cats is it worth an appeal in your opinion?
Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately our dd was unsuccessful at selection review with a score of 113.
To summarise - recommended 1:1 and predicted 111-120 across all 3 subject areas. 3b for lit, and 3c for others for ks1. Working at GDS across all 3 subject areas across yrs 3,4 and 5 consistently.
Extenuating circumstances were that she had a v disrupted year 5 with inconsistent teaching due to teacher absence. This was stated in a recent Ofsted report. We moved her school due to these issues in April 2017 as she was so unhappy so she only had 1 term in her new school. New head concurred that score was not reflective of her capability and confidence had been knocked by school change. When we submitted the review evidence the previous school was (still is) in such turmoil with an interim head that they said they did not have any assessments to share (no time /interim head didn’t know her). We were never informed of any Cats at the first school so no idea if they did them so could not include them ourselves other than the ‘GDS’ shown on the report. So our academic evidence was limited but included Pirls and Puma assessments standardised assessments from new school with age standardised scores of 130 and 131. Without knowing what the objective criteria are for the reviews how could we know this would not be enough evidence? If we had known we would have waited to go for appeal and sought more evidence.
Selection review outcome ticks the statement: they could not wholly agree with the expected performance levels...” and the reason given was “since child at school for one term panel questioned info provided”. But if 2 schools have found her to be working at GDS then surely that’s better than 1 school?!? Consistency of opinion?
I would think this process of selection review was not fair or consistent as it was not able to consider other evidence given time constraints and there was no way for us to get more given first schools lack of help. If we could get this now and ask her current school to undertake some Cats is it worth an appeal in your opinion?
Thanks in advance.