Progress Reports

In Years 7 – 11, your child will receive three progress reports. Each report will inform you of the progress that your child is making in each subject area as well as grades for Behaviour, Attitude to Learning and Attitude to Home Learning across the range of subjects studied. Your child’s progress report also includes a summary of his/her attendance as well as a cumulative total of his/her RISE (reward points) and any points accrued for instances of unacceptable behaviour. As a school, we believe that this information is vital in terms of recognising each child’s wider achievements.

At the start of the year your child will have received his/her MEGs for each subject; to calculate each child’s target grades (MEG) for GCSE, we use prior attainment from his/her Key Stage 2 scores. Each year, your child’s MEG will increase incrementally each year in Years 7 to 9 (see table below). This is to ensure each student can focus on the knowledge, skills and understanding that are needed to improve. In Years 10 and 11, your child’s MEG will remain the same for the final two years. For students in Year 7, we track backwards to calculate a target grade for each year; as a school, we strongly believe that this will allow class teachers to report your child’s progress more accurately.

For example, Student. A (in the table below) has been given a Key Stage 4 / GCSE MEG of a Grade 7 based on prior attainment from Key Stage 2. In Years 10 and 11, the MEG will remain a Grade 7 however, in Years 7 to 9, the MEG will increase each year from a Grade 4 to a Grade 5 to a Grade 6. As a school, we believe this will ensure <> is completely focused on making incremental improvements in the five-year learning journey.

Year 7 – Year 9

In Y7 – Y9, your child will receive a summative comment that reports his/her progress in words based on how well he/she is progressing compared to his/her end of year MEG. This is especially important as the information reported will be heavily based on ongoing learning in class (Mini-Assessment Points) so that knowledge and skills can be built upon over the five-year journey.

Please see the guides here for reporting in Y7 – Y9.

Year 10

In Y10, your child will receive an assessed grade as well as a summative comment that reports his/her progress in words based on how well he/she is progressing compared to his/her end of Year 11 MEG. This is especially important as the information reported will be heavily based on ongoing learning in class (Mini-Assessment Points) so that knowledge and skills can be built upon. To ensure that the information we send home is meaningful, class teachers have been given the flexibility to describe progress based on the amount of work completed and expectations of where students should be at that point in the GCSE course; this may vary from one subject to another. Whilst the assessed grade provides you with information about the working grade for each subject, the comment to describe your child’s progress is a true indicator of how well he/she is doing.

Please see the guide here for reporting in Y10.

Year 11

In Y11, your child will receive an assessed grade based on how well he/she is progressing compared to his/her end of Year 11 MEG.