Record of Achievement Progress Report

TARGET: To Review Systems of Communicating Pupil Achievement

VALIDATOR: Allen Andres

MONITORING TECHNIQUES:

Monitoring Techniques

Consultation and Communication

Reporting to Parents

• looking at a sample of completed reports from each year group, taking a cross-section of ability and gender.

• questionnaire for parents. Make reference to RoA minutes 13.7.94

• face to face contact with parents discussing their satisfaction / response recently received.
  

Objectives 1:

To provide parents with intelligible and useful information about their child's progress and achievement.

Strategy:

Development of Comment Bank

Evidence of progress:

June 1994 all parents (402) received a report via a Comment bank prepared by staff and facilitated by the use of the SIMS profile module.

All staff were trained in the use of the above module. 80% of parents confirmed that they were happy with and understood the content of the information provided. (Proved via parental survey). See appendix A/B.

Objective 2:

To achieve the objectives with an efficient series of arrangements.

Strategies:

Curriculum Co-ordinators meeting to develop Comment Bank

Whole staff training session

Refining of Comment Bank following initial staff training

Evidence of Progress:

All the above took place at meetings with Graham Foyden to address issues. All staff able to use the Comment Bank, but some showed initial reluctance.

All above occurred in Spring and Autumn terms 1994

Objective 3:

To see that parents have sufficient information to inform discussions about their child's progress and development.

Strategies:

Reports followed by parents evenings.

To collect information on parents feelings about the report arrangements.

Evidence of Progress:

Open evening in late June 1994 attended by majority of parents - 80 completed a questionnaire about the reports.

Objective 4:

To ensure that parents know they can discuss the progress and achievements of their child at any time they feel necessary.

Strategy:

Regular use of Newsletter to publicise this facility.

Evidence of Progress:

(see Newsletter section) Appendix C

Objectives 5 and 6:

To respond to all regulations about reporting information to parents.

To evaluate the process and identify future needs.

Strategy:

Discuss information with all staff.

Analyse parental survey information with staff.

Evidence of progress:

The evidence and the survey data were discussed with the

Strategy Group members

Curriculum Co-ordinators

Governors

The whole staff

Further Developments

The following objectives for further developments to reporting arrangements were established:

1. To make the reports be still more parent 'friendly' in style and language, and feel more directly personal to the child.

2. To continue to benefit from the reduced demand on administrative staff.

3. To endeavour to reduce the still considerable demand on teaching staff time and energy in order to minimise the adverse effect on their teaching.

4. To link new developments more closely to the revised National curriculum arrangements, if the timescale made this possible.