What are your thought about this year 7 child’s school report ? Is it awful ?

My son is quite dyslexic and his grades were quite poor, however his attitude to learning, effort and organisation grades were all very good with a few excellent!

We underestimated how much revision was required (so know for next year!) And always check the homework once complete to nudge for more content if necessary...

I would focus on his good efforts and perhaps monitor his home learning when he moves into Y8

It reads to me that the child is trying their best (hence the majority G) but isn't managing (progression not as expected)

Is it expected to himself - in effect he underachieved against his own predicted grades?

For example History and Geography he is predicted an 8 yet got insufficient and below expected but in English its a 7 and exceeded. I think he screwed up his exams - did he revise for them. That his work was good all year apart from homework and revision.

I hate to say it OP but it looks like from that report its the home bits he is not necessarily hitting - homework and revising in order to do well in the exams - as such he failed to hit expec

Another one saying look at effort and attitude to learning rather than grades.

Flight paths are nonsense, genuinely. I say this as a parent of a year 11 who on his predicted grades from year 6 would be about 2 -3 grades lower than he should get (based on 3 lots of mock exam results.)

Attitude to learning is a good indicator and effort. This becomes more important later. Celebrate his success with his English and if he enjoys computing which is suggested by the report, he can widen his knowledge over the summer. School can direct him on what to look at. Also a little bit of maths every day will help him, again school can suggest what to do to increase his grade.

Secondary is hard for some and it takes them a bit to find their feet.

Ignore the grades

Look at the effort and attitude to learning. If they are good then your child will be fine. From what I can see, homework needs sorting and they are probably a middle of the road kid attitude wise.

Sorry, pressed post too soon!

I meant that it looks like teachers input the scores and letters for attitude to learning etc and Sims producing the coloured outcome depending on the minimum target grade for that subject. Would explain why Computing is below expected but teacher has put Es for most things. I would say it is a pretty good report.

This looks like Sims generated colours

Looks fine to me, maybe needs to pay a bit more attention to the insufficient.

Looks a lot like ds1's report. He has extremely high targets and therefore fails to meet them any time he doesn't score over 90% in any exam. We just look at his effort grades and forget the symphony of reds and oranges.

Focus on the effort grades and the actual test scores - ignore the ‘minimum expected grade’.

To me this looks like an able student who is making reasonable efforts/has good organisation in almost all subjects, but isn’t maybe pushing him/herself, so could do better in a number of subjects.

I wouldn’t be overly concerned, particularly as it’s Year 7, but it might be worth asking your child to identify 2-3 subjects which they can improve next year.

You can't tell a lot from that really.

We don't know if almost everyone gets exceptional, in which case your report looks bad, or it is truly exceptional to get that, in which case it looks very good.

What I'd be most concerned is the Bs for homework.

I think the effort grades are what you need to focus on. The other grades can just be based on one test on one day (for example, my year 7's geography grade has hopped around this year from "below" to "exceeding" and back again - just an exam result on a particular day.

Just saw the key at the bottom. I would focus on homework organisation next year. But those codes look like a good student. The 'grades' look like nonsense.

I'm not a teacher so just giving my opinion based on not a lot really. What strikes me is that most of his individual marks are good or exceptional, suggesting he's working hard, and yet he's below the expected level or worse for most subjects. I wonder if he's suffering from having particularly high targets set because of his sats?

What do the letters mean? The grades are probably meaningless. The Art one is based on English SATs performance I believe in many cases (for example). I am pretty damn good at English but I can't draw for toffee. I'd be paying more attention to the other columns. Is effort good? Is behaviour good? If so, it's a good report.