Many parents are keen to understand what the target levels of achievement are for each year level and how their children are doing in relation to these targets.  The following information and links are provided to give you guidance on target levels of achievement.  However, every child is an individual and their teacher is the best person to give you an overall assessment of their current achievement and strengths and weaknesses within a subject.  Our Assessment and Reporting page sets out how we assess and communicate your child's progress.

Here is a link to the Ministry of Education overall summary of targeted achievement levels.

Maths

NZ Maths website with information for parents Check out the section called Maths tips by year level for information on what your child is learning and how to support your child's learning at home.

NZ curriculum document linking maths stages to year level at school.  Note that the year levels are at the top of the poster and strategy stages are at the bottom.  The maths stages are often used by teachers and include the stages Emergent, Counting All (or Counting From One), Advanced Counting (or Counting On), Early Additive, Advanced Additive, Early Multiplicative etc.

WALT profiles for each maths stage - WALT is "We are learning to...".  This puts the maths stages into language that the tamariki hear in the classroom.

The National Standards are no longer formally used in the New Zealand education system but they can provide an illustration of the kind of level of achievement expected for each year level.

Reading

Summary of reading levels for the first three years of primary school.

The National Standards are no longer formally used in the New Zealand education system but they can provide an illustration of the kind of level of achievement expected for each year level.

Writing

Writing rubric (or marking schedule) which sets out how writing is marked and what good writing looks like at each level.  Note that there are a lot of factors contributing to the quality of any single piece of writing and a child may have strengths and weaknesses across the seven identified writing skills but the following gives a guide to target achievement levels.

• At the end of year 2, an average of R2 for each writing skill
• At the end of year 4, an average of R3 for each skill
• At the end of year 6, an average of R4 for each skill.

Examples of writing marked using the writing rubric.  This link is to examples of Recount - telling about something that happened in the child's life.  Examples of other types of writing are available  online.

The National Standards are no longer formally used in the New Zealand education system but they can provide an illustration of the kind of level of achievement expected for each year level.