aibu that my dd in Yr 3 should not only receive attainment grades, but also effort grades?

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I mean how demoralizing is this potentially for children who struggle?

Snorkle, I disagree. In many schools - quite rightly - students read their own school reports and get to write their own comment in the report itself. At my boys' school I think this happens from yr3, possibly earlier.

Likewise with grades. Many schools/teachers now do (quite rightly) veer away from giving 'achievement grades' and instead concentrate on 'on/below/above target'.

But even so, in order to make progress, pupils need to understand what level they are working at in a subject.

Our School reports work the same Roisin, the children at ours read their reports and comment on them from year 1.

They usually have to comment themselves on what they feel they have done well at and enjoyed, and what they feel they could improve at.

Well maybe I'm old-fashioned, but if it's addressed to me (which it is) then it's me who has the choice to share it or not. The teacher has time every day to give feedback to the children but very few opportunities to feedback to the parents and I see the report as one of them. If the reports have been sufficiently sanitised that they make good reading for young children, then so be it, but in which case leave attainment grades out of them.

I don't show my 8 and 7yos their reports. One is far more academically inclined than the other, I don't want to make direct comparisons between them, which showing the reports would do. They might already be aware of the difference but I don't want to explicitly reinforce it.

My academically inclined one knows perfectly well that she's clever, without showing her her attainment grades, and my more average one probably knows this too but why emphasise it?

We have attainment, effort and improvement grades, for about 20 different subjects. It all blurs together rather.