School Reports - Chat thread

[IndigoBell]

How's everyone feeling about their children's school reports?

I've just got DS2s report and it's glowing - which stupidly makes me upset because he's a very difficult child at home, and it makes me feel like it must be me that's the problem.

Apparently he's fine at school and is only a monster for me, DH, the nanny and Beavers.....

Anyway, what are your school reports like? Do they describe your child? Or someone else totally......

DD2 end of yr3.
Last year had levels as end of KS1.
No levels this year, and for the core subjects (3 x Literacy Elements, Maths, Science & ICT), separate effort and attainment grades have been introduced.

Only real worry was the top effort grade with average attainment in Maths. Appears to be going downhill, despite putting the effort in.

Overall, summed her up pretty well and was a good report.

The targets a bit strainge, as were based on issues discussed at parents meeting in the spring, so the problems had already been addressed in the Easter holidays. Makes me wonder how early some of it is written.

Still waiting. Hopefull we will get them tomorrow. Usually go out on a Friday.

Hoping to get ours tomorrow. The report in reception meant very little to me to be honest. Nothing in it that talked about DD or how she was progressing etc. Just a sort of flow chart with lots of little boxes saying things like "She can blend sounds" or "She can balance on a beam". Waste of time really. No levels or anything like that. Either way I can see myself how far she has come in a year so not too bothered but it would be nice to see something a bit more personal.

I'm so glad you posted that, Spanieleyes (about progression from 2b in y2 to 4b in y6)! I was just figuring it out this evening in bed, and then thought I must be going INSANE as everybody talks about 2 sublevels/yr, not 1.5 sl/yr... which makes all these threads about "Oh woe is me How Loudly Shall I complain because My child only moved ONE sublevel this year, BOOHOO" look pretty silly.

Another unexpected thing about the reports, DS was moaning today that he's rubbish at everything (probably because he's too competitive, too readily compares himself to anybody & everybody). Getting out his school report and explaining what it meant really helped him realise that he's doing fine.

We've just got the reports. Our school sent out yr 2 results as a percentage so we know where our kids are sitting against the rest of the year group . I really like that. It also has some national results (can't remember if it was 2010 though)

I do think that not grading the children in non-sats years isn't helpful. With subsequent children you kind of understand a little more about where they are at but it means nothing to parents when they don't have levels. How do we know if counting to 20 is bang on target etc.

Thanks to mumsnet there were no surprises really and I understand way more than I did before reading here.

My DD's report said in class she gave a lovely explanation of her recent visit to London - She's never been to London!

DDs report was lovely. She's just moving up from middle school to High school so a bit sad.

DS had a lovely sheet on the front that he ahd filled in. Date of birth said twentte for septemboo. His birthday is in May! When I asked him about it he said he couldn't remember his birthday so he copied Xs!!!!!

My eldest must be an absolute genius - she is in Y5 and got 5C for reading, 4A writing and 5C maths - all well ahead of expectations - and ALL despite " not listening to a single word I've said all year" mmmmmm methinks it must have got in somehow!!!!

Got report today. Much better than last year, really informative and it did have levels this time. DD is doing really well and got 1a for speaking and 2c for everything else. She just needs to work on her confidence and speaking up in class. Not sure how to encourage this though?

We are a happy Manky household.

DS1 in in YR 4 got 4B's for everything, and an absolutely lovely personal report saying how hard he had tried to improve the issues he had last year (he has had the same teacher 2 years in a row, unusual at our school).

DD has done better than I expected in her YR2 sats and is noted as a polite, friendly quiet girl who behaves well in class.

DS2 in Reception has done as I expected - really well with his reading, not so well with writing and numeracy, but the teacher had lovely comments on it about how he is caring and protective of his friends, and helpful and keen to learn. Also that he is a little bit sensitive about things.

We got ours. DD1, very vague tick-box style report that goes into pages but doesn't really tell you much. Teacher's comment seemed very individualised though, and not a cut and paste job. Very glowing comments - MiniPixels is a very pleasant child, she is very strong in Maths, she is a role model to the rest of the class, she is very enthusiastic about learning, it has been a pleasure to teach her etc. etc. I am very proud of her. No levels mentioned but I went in and asked, and he readily gave them to me.

DD2 is only at nursery but the comments about her was also personalised and quite accurate. Mention of phonics and whatnot, I can't remember all the details but she's done well too and I'm a happy bunny :).

Had to chuckle at my son's report (Yr 2) "X is a very responsible boy who likes to do the right thing. Sometimes he also feels the need to tell other pupils what they should be doing - which can distract him from the task he is working on" So basically ds is a busy body A good report though - we're not complaining.

Some of the levels seemed a bit out on ours but got "a credit to the school" which is pretty nice. Unless they say that about all the children (or most of them)?

The senior school one for DD1 is spot on on the personal stuff, her English grade is barking mad ( a full level and a half higher than the rest of the term - she thinks it's from a speaking and listening assessment, she's dyslexic so this isn't vaguely in line with her written work)
DD2 is impeccably behaved?? I wish they'd send that child home, not the stroppy teenager in training I collect each evening. Academically she is simply the product of her genetics, if your the grand daughter of two academic English teachers and inherited their talents without your mothers dyslexia you ought to be able to read and write pretty well.

I cried reading my 3 childrens report.

dd2 (severely dyslexic) age 11 leaving year 6 lovely contintious girl works hard and has put so much effort into it. Her behaviour is wonderful and her 2ndary scchool will be gaining a wonderful student the teacher ends the report " you star"
She scores 4C in reading 4A in writing and math and 5 in science this is from
the dd that on leaving year 4 didnt want to return to school had no self confidence and whom belived herselt to be stupid. her dyslexia is really bad she takes hours over doing things the way her last 2 teachers have build her confidence to get her to this stage was just amazing..

ds (age 9 ending year 4) He is wonderful in all he does thrieves ina compettitive enviroment (he does) and over all he is doing fantastic and has benefitted from being moved to the year 5/6 class for maths and science His math abillity has been commented upon all his reports and is in this one.. he is scorring 4C and 4B (science) plus a 5 in math.. report showed she got my child and understood what made him tick and how to push him onward ..

dd3 (age 7 ending year 2) this is my behind girley basically because she was allowed to cruise along in year 1 .. on working with her teacher this year she has come on leaps and bounds but is a 1A for reading and writing. 2B and a 2A for math.. her report says (her teacher is also SENCO) I am determined to make her an avid reader " (or similar) she comment upon loads of lovely things about her personality and her willingless and how she thrives on possitive feedback (so true) first report EVER her stuffed rabbit is not mentioned in laughs - my little girl is growing up... snifs

So whilst the reports were not all great they were truthful and they showed teachers that got my children for me that was the most important.. I am very happy and proud of my children.. (add to that dd1 age 13 got top of the attitude to learning league table and well Im thrilled)

ds1 - a couple of elements of the report do him justice, unfortunately none of these written by the class teacher who has 'taught' him all year but obv doesn't know anything about him [have raised it several times, he's SEN, and . again. he works hard, achieves eventually] No levels, crap targets written. Absolute joke, mucho cut-and-pasting.

Ds2 - end of year 2 - glowing report (evidently the loon I have at home is not the one who attends their school) and level three Bs in his sats for everything except writing, which is a 2a (because he's a lazy bugger a boy and won't write enough to get himself a 3c).

dd - end of reception - foundation profile accurate but computer generated. Several paragraphs of "in addition to this..." on the end of every section Teacher's report is lovely. I'm really impressed at how politely the class teacher can convey "she's a bossy little madam" and still show that she knows her well and absolutely adores her

Thanks for starting and contributing on this thread, it's somehow very reassuring to find we are not alone in our musings and ramblings about the dcs reports :)

Still waiting for my DC's reports, one week to go. I am sure they do this prevent lots of negative comments - cynical but pissed off with my DS's teacher, AGAIN.

Had my dd (7) year 3 sobbing last night as her report was not great She had a few settling in issues at junior school, resolved now, no thanks to her teacher. But she seems to have given up trying to learn Effort marks were poor, attainment pretty low. All for a girl who got mainly level 3's in her SATs at infants Am really looking forward to a decent teacher next year or we move her...

Lonnie I understand your tears, I'm immensely proud of both my DDs, but I always feel a special admiration for my dyslexic DD1. It can't be easy to have a sister 3 years younger than you effortlessly correct your reading and spelling. Yet she carries on smiling and working hard, even in subjects where her peer group don't.
DD2 got a big hug too, for getting excellent maths as well as English marks. This being the one thing at which she sometimes doesn't try her very best, because some of the boys are dishearteningly fast.
In any case it is worth remembering that however good or bad our children's reports in the end they are only a small part of life.
My DSIS hated school, but loved college. Having discovered that typing and word-processing were something she was really good at gave her the confidence to go out into the adult world and teacher self computing and many other skills.

Don't ask said dyslexic DD1 got 2b in her KS2 SATs reading test ie. Exactly the level the government expects, but she couldn't read!
I used to hear her class read and I can assure you she pretty much the worse and yet their were several 2c

There not their

Startail you are absolutely right it is a special admiration to watch your dyslexic child work so hard to achieve what comes so easilly to her younger sibling (not aided in our case by the facct her younger brother achieves easilly) she just ploughs along and bit after bit she gets it and that report showed all of her hard work and this was what made me burst into tears. (and also I will say what made me burst into tears and hug the senco when I had received her Sats scores )

something so amazing about a child like that I have deep admiration for her to cope and still find learning is fun

Oh bloody hell - though I wouldn't be posting on these threads but I'm annoyed....
DD1 is in reception - her report is disappointingly short and succint. One typed page. Under each of the EYFS 'headlines' it just says either dd1 'has attained the early learning goals in this area' or 'is making progress within the context of the early learning goals' and then there is a generic comment at the bottom from the head. That's it! No comment from teacher, no detail, no levels, no targets, no idea what she can do or what her strengths and weaknesses are - what a waste of a piece of paper! Its not like we've had personal feedback - last parents evening was February and I'm not the type to doorstep the teacher so I feel clueless! I wasn't expecting war and peace waxing lyrical about my child but some effort would have been good!