What are your thought about this year 7 child’s school report ? Is it awful ?

[Lardlizard]

This is the report of a year £ child who did very well at primary
Got greater depth on all sats this it was possible, has had a bit of a bumpy ride starting secondary due to bullying
Which I’m told by the child and the school has been sorted
Though of course I’m keeping my sensors up
The child seems to have settled in ok now and bullying seems to have stopped
I’ve said, right you’ve had your first year to settle in, but going back in September you need to pull your socks up and work harder

I'd also get into the habit of asking him what he is doing in lessons especially if the school doesn't tell you anything.

Info form secondary schools is way less than primary.
Definitely if you want to be an involved/aware parent (many people are happy to sit back and let the school get on with it), you need to be proactive in asking your DC re tests and homework.

That doesn't have to mean interfering, but being interested and asking for info.

(I more or less never go to s&b but they were very helpful directing me somewhere to get dresses for DDs to wear to a wedding recently).

There is something flawed in a reporting system that indicates "exceptional" effort, behaviour and homework, with 68% test result, and links that to "insufficient" progress (see computing).

The progress scores may all be skewed by his good performance at primary school. He is starting from a high base, so can't progress as far as some other kids who are playing catch up. That doesn't mean he's failing. It might mean that the school has a one size fits all approach which is targeted at the middle and low achievers and doesn't adjust for students with very high target grades.

I would praise him for all those "good" scores and focus on making sure he does a decent job of his homework in year 8. And get your DH to put those books away till he's in year 10.

This is why you need some comments. Something like "attentive in class, good effort with homework but needs to work on exam technique" would be more useful

I've always (at primary and secondary) found parents evenings to be of not much interest if you have a child that is largely doing well/as expected. I always ask teachers what DC can work on and they generally think of something. They are largely more informative if you have a child who is not doing so well as there is obviously more to say! So, if your parents' evening was wishy washy, be grateful :)

UPDATE

Not sure if anyone will be the slightest interested in this
But had the next report through
And it’s all green on homework

So thanks for your advice and help
Has been very very useful

This child is also much more settled and happy at the school now
Some kids take a bit longer to settle in I guess

There was two belows one for attitude to learning in a Key subject

Another for behaviour in class
For a subject this child isn’t keen on

So we’ve said we expect this to this to be improved next time as one thing you do have control over is your attitude and behaviour

But everything else good or exceptional
With very high Meg targets as well
So thanks so much for taking the time to advise

Nice update.

Not all children are academic with ability to get high grades in exams, but if they try their best that's all we can ask really.

This to me looks like the report of a child who was coached for the SATs in y6 and who has ended up with target grades beyond their ability.

Their attitude to learning doesn’t look bad at all, so I would say they are working well, but their targets are too high, so it’ll always look like they’re not meeting them.

I’m not a teacher though, so I’m basing my opinion on my very limited knowledge of how things work. I may be completely wrong.

Good stuff Lardlizard. I clicked on the thread because it looked vaguely familiar. Good to see that things have settled.

Cat
You’ve missed the update!

Thanks teen n chicken

It looks good to me. They expected a grade 7 (< or = 89%) but he always achieves in average over 60% I see lots of B even below what expected of him, he’s going well.

@Nowapizmum this is a zombie thread from July 2019.

Why post on it nearly 2 years later?

Sorry it’s my first post. I didn’t see the dates. I’m glad to here that he is doing well!

the kid is probably in the mire of GCSE hell by now!

Looks like a great report! Test scores look very respectable, all good and excellents in attitude, effort etc. Looks like possibly languages are less of strong suit. I'd be happy with that!

Whoops. Old post!