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Report comments for Reception Maths
15 free comments to use or adapt, grouped by attainment. Names, pronouns and verbs adjust to the pupil automatically — try switching between the children below and watch the wording follow.
Working towards the expected standard
For children still securing the objectives for this year.
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Aisha is beginning to count reliably to ten and enjoys joining in with number songs.
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Aisha can match numerals to small quantities when she has objects to move.
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With an adult alongside her, she is starting to notice which group has more.
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Aisha is beginning to name simple shapes and to talk about their sides and corners.
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Counting games at home would help her enormously — she enjoys them and learns quickly when she is relaxed.
Working at the expected standard
The bulk of most classes — secure across the year's curriculum.
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Aisha counts confidently to twenty and beyond, and knows that the last number tells her how many.
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Aisha subitises small amounts without counting, which shows a real feel for number.
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Aisha can find one more and one less than a number to ten, and explains how she knows.
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Aisha uses mathematical language well in her play — longer, heavier, first, next.
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Aisha recognises and continues repeating patterns, and can spot when one has gone wrong.
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Aisha shares objects fairly between friends and notices when the groups are not equal.
Working at greater depth
Reasoning confidently and applying learning in unfamiliar contexts.
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Aisha is a curious mathematician who notices number all around her and asks excellent questions.
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Aisha can explain her thinking clearly and often finds more than one way to solve a problem.
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Aisha uses her number knowledge confidently in play, sharing fairly and checking totals independently.
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Aisha is already composing and decomposing numbers to ten, which is well beyond what we expect in Reception.
How does the wording change by itself?
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Or write a whole class of these in an evening
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