Grades on School Reports

[mousemaster]

My tutee has many grades on his Y8 report, the highest of which is a 4, for History. He has 2m for English and 2d for Maths. By the look of comments on your discussion on this last year, these are very low grades. Is the system the same as it was last year?

There is no system and every school does their own thing.

So it could be anything from high performance to low performance.

Thank you Data Educator. The Report itself says that the Grades are GCSE Grades, with the assumption I suppose that the child will get better over the next three years. I very much doubt, though, that the these grades will be found to correlate with any Grade Descriptors on the Syllabus. Looks as if they are using 1-4, each split into 3 levels (m, d and e), making effectively a 12 level scheme.

M and D are quite commonly used to mean Mastery and Developing in many high schools these days. I've seen them a lot.
I've seen Foundation>Developing>Secure>Mastery, or sometimes Emerging instead of Foundation.

Which is all you need to know to tell you that the system is meaningless.

Noble Giraffe I suspect you are right. Report full of mealy mouthed phrases. I don't suppose the teachers are allowed to use any other kind.