What does IRS mean? Written on DC's work by teacher.

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Just been to parents evening and as we were waiting we could look through our DC's work. We saw IRS written a lot over all of the DC's work, all the parents sitting there were equally baffled, we were asking each other but none of us knew what it could be! DH reckons it's the US taxman but I'm not sure that DS's maths is good enough for him to have been headhunted by them yet

Can anyone help please? It's the sort of thing that will drive me potty if I can't find out the answer...

I'm a teacher and I am perplexed. Independent something?
Didn't you ask?

No idea sorry. But didn't you ask the teacher?

Teacher or TA's initials?

I - independent?
or S - support?

Not sure tbh, not one we use anyway.

It's not the initials of a teacher is it?

Ask your son what it means.

Why didn't you ask the teacher? I bet your dc know..

We forgot to ask once we were in there! Asked DS but he doesn't know. Not teachers initials, doesn't fit with TA or the PP-thingy cover teacher. Initials was my first thought as I sign lots of stuff at work with initials but her surname doesn't start with any of those.

Oh well, will try and remember to ask her another day! Thanks for your help anyway

I'm a teacher also, and have no idea what this could mean.
Do let us know when you find out.

Knowing us we've remembered the letters incorrectly anyway I'll report back if we ever get to the bottom of it...

We sometimes write VFG in books, which means Verbal Feedback Given. If you have misremembered the letters, this might be relevant. Or not.

I would have assumed VFG meant "very f*ing good"

Certainly not, no swearing and no negative comments permitted at all. Not even It's Really Shit or anything.

I work in a secondary school and they use a marking technique called S.I.R. I can't remember what the initials stand for (in my defence I don't have anything to do with marking student work!) but it's intended to create a dialogue with the student about how they can improve their work. Teacher comments with guidance on how to improve, student responds/seeks clarification/teacher responds is the very rough gist of it since I didn't have to attend the inset session where they explained it. It's a way of evidencing the communication between teacher and student when Ofsted come in.

DD's school has ISR, it stands for In School Restriction. I would imagine you'd know if he'd been held in from recess or sent for misbehaving though!

I had a comment on a question from my physics end of year paper once - "BOD". From a rather strange teacher who refused to comply with school marking policy (didn't use +/- so B=A-, C=B+ etc).

So as she had given me the mark I thought she was calling me a Bod (boffin/geek - a term I am proud of!) - turned out my answer was a close call and BOD meant "benefit of doubt"

This is mentioned on my dc's homework policy and stands for Information Retrieval Skills :)

Ooh I think we may have a winner! :)

Lol at VFG, I would have assumed v effing good too. We have a machine at work that has an error code FFS when it needs something changing, makes me laugh every time, this machine swearing at me!

I'm going to go with Info retrieval skills I saw another mum on the school run this morning who was sitting next to us pondering the meaning of it last night but she forgot to ask the teacher too We're all useless!

So funny!!!!

Otherhalf used to write to his staff he was training RTFM (Read F......g Manual)!!!

incorrect exam answers are always rtfq.

I might roll out RTFM at work!