to be annoyed about the standard of school reports

[Justforlaughs]

Firstly, the reports sent out by our local comp. comprise of a grid; listing each subject taken and 5 scores for each subject, graded from 1-4, for attitude, behaviour etc. At the bottom there is one comment about PSHCE (what we used to know as general RE). I have found 7 spelling mistakes, several grammatical errors that have left me confused as to the meaning of the sentence plus a "there" instead of a "their". So my grievance is twofold. Firstly, I would prefer my DCs report to actually tell me that the teacher knows who my DC is, not just a reference grid. Secondly, I would like to understand what they are saying, and don't expect 7 spelling mistakes in a very limited amount of typing.

Is this an interim report or will there be a full report later in the academic year? If the first, YABU. If not, then YANBU.

Surely the school will have told all parents what the schedule for reporting is, e.g. two interim + one full report.

The typos are not OK. Copy it back to the HT.

A report this early in the year suggests you will get another more in depth report and this is just a how are they settling in report. Many schools only do one report a year.

Is there just a comment for psche or also for other subjects? Psche is a different subject to RE. Is their form tutor their psche teacher? And therefore could it be a general comment about how the student is doing in form time?

Sorry forgot to say. That many typos is not acceptable.

YANBU in respect of either matter. I detest the school report that DS gets. He is in his second year of middle school. That means I am in my second year of pointing out numerous errors to the school in paperwork they send home.

Unacceptable grammar and spelling mistakes. However the style wofe the report is perfectly fine for the Christmas report. You get the proper report nearer the summer term ending.

They get 3 reports every year, all with the same format. Parents evenings are a joke, with not enough slots to go around. Teachers may have 90 students in a year with only 30 slots. They target the ones they want to see, but this means that we saw DDs science teacher for the first time last year (and I found some serious concerns that the teacher wasn't worried about, like dropping from a level 8 to a level 5 in 3 years!), and we have never seen DDs English teacher.

I'm a teacher and tbh I wonder about the importance of reports at all! If the teacher had concerns about your child you would hope to be contacted way before a report was written. Yes the grammatical errors shouldn't be there but in my defence ( and that of fellow teachers) I have written over 500 reports this week. Auto correct and tired eyes/ brain sometimes result in errors. Our heads of years are supposed to check them but I have to be honest, I have written 500 reports and scanned 1000's of other comments. Have I checked them properly? No. I am busy marking mock exam papers and prepping lessons instead.

Mistakes happen, yes they shouldn't, but they do

I haven't!!! See:)

yabu

Well, if my child had dropped from a level 8 to a level 5 I wouldn't be waiting for parent's evening! Why weren't you making appointments to seen her head of year, her teacher and the head of the school?

In my ds interim report the mathematics box was left unmarked as teacher "was working to rule"

dropping from a level 8 to a level 5 in 3 years

Er, something's not right there. I really doubt your child was a level 8 in science in Y7

The grid thing is because in a written comment, teachers would just be padding those grades with time consuming to type words.

curlew because we didn't know! No-one saw fit to tell us until I gatecrashed an appointment at yr 9 parents evening. She wanted to sit the triple Science award but you had to speak to the teacher about it. We were told that we didn't need an appointment as there were "no concerns". I just sat down (no appointment) and asked about the triple science. Then, and only then, did the teacher explain that DD was under performing!

noble she was flagged as "exceptional" when she arrived in the comp. Now she's not!

justforlaughs, you weren't given her level/sublevel at the end of each academic term/ year/ in every "report"?

I have to say that I smiled at some of the words misspelled though!
Clamydia, alchohol, predudice, autorised (as in absence), unauthroised, crurently, averges. Some of which are in the actual blank form,

Can't you phone the school office and arrange for an appointment to see all the teachers of the subjects you are concerned about or need for information about about? Or maybe just arrange for a phone call back?

Nina I'm still waiting for a reply to an email I wrote to the Head in October! He's promised to send one several times now. So glad I sent DS to a different school. Lots of issues really, but just at the errors on this report tonight, don't know why I'm ed tbh. Just more of the same old, same old

"curlew because we didn't know!"

So you didn't get a report at the end of year 7 or 8? Your daughter didn't express any concern? You didn't look in her homework book?

frog just a +, -, or = sign to say whether they are where they are expected to be.

Typos are bad, but it's not just schools where you see them. I was recently involved in something legal at work and OUR solicitors would not let us sign until THEIR solicitors had corrected several basic errors in their standard documentation. This was not something they had just thrown together, it was their bog standard basic contract with all their terms in etc. Silly things like of/for mixed up and property/properly, as well as some atrocious grammar! Oh, and fourth spelt forth!

So your daughter was working at level 8 in year 7, is now working at level 5 in year 9, and you're complaining about spelling mistakes??????????

Level 8 isn't given in Science, it hasn't been for about 10 yrs.

I would phone and say you will wait to speak to the ht. I don't think you will get a reply to that email.