Do you have to do this?

[DorothyL]

Secondary - after each half termly data drop fill in a document stating in detail how you differentiate and what specific measures you are using to support individual students who are below target?

Anyone?

When I worked in mainstream I did the second bit.

Nope!

Sometimes a HOD might send around an email with some names on them for us to respond to.

Yes but we have to export the data and put it in another document even though the students names are in a different order. Staff spend their time filling in information about imaginary intervention as we are too busy filling in documents to about intervention to actually do anything.

Good grief. the union MNer who is opining on another thread would LOVE this next level of madness!!

We have to do what is called a provision map and you put down all the interventions and support that the SEN children are having. You include how you differentiate but you don't have to go into masses of detail.

Yes, we do.

Makingworkwork, that's exactly it - so frustrating! Spent about three hours doing this week and cannot see one bit how it has actually benefited any of the students.

No. And if I did, I’d be damn sure the data showed they were all on track!

How though when eg mock exam data comes into it?

Yes we do something similar about intervention for PP, SEN, KS2 high or whatever the acronym is etc etc.
I think there should be an acronym for well behaved, average ability and income children as they don't seem to matter to anyone in SLT or Ofsted.

Oh, if it’s exam classes then yeah, we have to fill out a spreadsheet for targeted students saying what intervention they’ve been offered, but not how we’re differentiating or anything. But targeted students aren’t all students who are under target, just ones who will really bugger up progress 8, or who are on track to achieve English but not maths so would affect headline stats at Y11, and ones way under target in Y12/13.

Other year groups we don’t have to do anything.

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It’s nearly Easter.

There’s not enough tea in China, money in the world or chocolate in the shops to make me think that teaching is something I’d like to do.

Many years ago I did want to be a teacher, but the glamour of accountancy (😖😂) lured me away - it was starting to get a bit ‘paperwork before kids’ even then. Now it’s horrendous. Easter bonnets off to all of you still hanging in there!

This was a routine expectation in every primary school I taught in. Only one class... but for EVERY subject.

We do in a primary school.

I'm secondary and I do and it's hideous as it's a core subject so the sheer number of students means there will always be several in each year group showing as off track, and many in Year 11, as a previous poster said.

We have a pastoral team meeting (Head of Year and tutors) after every 6 weekly data drop to work out pastoral inventions for students based on their whole set of grades and enter them into the dreaded colour coded spreadsheet, and also a departmental meeting to fill in the spreadsheet for each student in our subject.

Does it help anyone? No. Our SLT don't read the spreadsheets, ever, so if you don't fill them in or write things like "Daniel should buy a time machine, and go back to Year 2 where his persistent fart jokes might possibly be appropriate, and he can take Clara and her coloured gel pen obsession too" no one will ever know.

Nope! We only have 2 official data drops a year now. After those you have to include in your dept minutes who needs intervention and what youre doing. Senior Team assess if it's the same kids across the board and organise who is having one to one tutoring, intervention tutor grouping, parents invited in etc. We are an Outstanding school and our Head is trying to reduce workload.

Oh dear god but the data that this is all based on is bollocks. What a waste of everyone’s time.