Hi, and welcome to the forum.
I’m sorry your Selection Review outckme was not as you’d hoped. Quite a few pupils with 119 do get through, but not all.
When you say the process was “vague”, did they give a reason for non-success? Your DS was under the pass mark in two sections and sometimes this is given as a reason.
I totally respect your honesty in not “creating” extenuating circumstances: the closer to 121 the score is, pupils
do not always need these: we’ve had parents before whose DC scored 120.75 (rounded down to 120) who have had to go to SR , and with a supportive report from the Head have been successful.
Looking at the information you’ve given, the following aspects may explain the outcome:
1) scored under 121 in 2 of the sections
2) Expected standard in Writing with no explaination from the circumstances or from the Head as to why (panels like pupils to be at Greater Depth in all subjects OR a good reason why the subject achievement is lower) :
3) you don’t mention SATs KS2 predictions: but again the Panel like these to all be 110-120: if your DS was predicted 101-110 then it may be this was also a sticking point,
The presence of a sibling in GS holds no relevence for a Selection review, though if you appeal it may be worth including that information. So having that information won’t have made a difference to the Panel. Nor will mocks scores (because officially mocks aren’t seen as necessary and the Panel aren’t meant to favour children who have been tutored or taken Mock exams).
Have you requested a copy of the Clerk’s Notes from the Selection review meeting? this is worth doing (via the Bucks County Council website) as it may give you more information as to why the SR was unsuccessful and you can judge whether you think the process was Fair/Consistent/Objective.
(Note that you can’t say it was unfair because the outcome was not your preferred one: it’s the PROCESS you must look at, not the decison….)
I’m sorry your Selection Review outckme was not as you’d hoped. Quite a few pupils with 119 do get through, but not all.
When you say the process was “vague”, did they give a reason for non-success? Your DS was under the pass mark in two sections and sometimes this is given as a reason.
I totally respect your honesty in not “creating” extenuating circumstances: the closer to 121 the score is, pupils
do not always need these: we’ve had parents before whose DC scored 120.75 (rounded down to 120) who have had to go to SR , and with a supportive report from the Head have been successful.
Looking at the information you’ve given, the following aspects may explain the outcome:
1) scored under 121 in 2 of the sections
2) Expected standard in Writing with no explaination from the circumstances or from the Head as to why (panels like pupils to be at Greater Depth in all subjects OR a good reason why the subject achievement is lower) :
3) you don’t mention SATs KS2 predictions: but again the Panel like these to all be 110-120: if your DS was predicted 101-110 then it may be this was also a sticking point,
The presence of a sibling in GS holds no relevence for a Selection review, though if you appeal it may be worth including that information. So having that information won’t have made a difference to the Panel. Nor will mocks scores (because officially mocks aren’t seen as necessary and the Panel aren’t meant to favour children who have been tutored or taken Mock exams).
Have you requested a copy of the Clerk’s Notes from the Selection review meeting? this is worth doing (via the Bucks County Council website) as it may give you more information as to why the SR was unsuccessful and you can judge whether you think the process was Fair/Consistent/Objective.
(Note that you can’t say it was unfair because the outcome was not your preferred one: it’s the PROCESS you must look at, not the decison….)
Statistics: Posted by Aethel — Sun Feb 16, 2025 3:26 pm