We aim to keep all parents and carers up to date on their child’s progress in school; to this end, we produce three reviews spread across the school year. Each review contains information about your child’s attitude to learning, any key concerns affecting their performance and an ‘ongoing’ level reflecting on their achievement across a term. We report a ‘key piece’ or ‘assessment’ level twice a year. This is the result arising from a test, mock exam paper or another piece of work completed under test conditions.
If you have any questions about your child’s report, their subject teacher can help in the first instance, or where there are multiple causes of concern, their head of year can assist.
Years 7, 8 & 9
Your child’s report provides information about their learning in a number of different areas:
- Behaviour in Lessons
- Effort in Lessons
- Effort in Homework
- An assessment or ‘key piece’ level, reported during the spring and summer terms
- An ongoing assessment level
Behaviour in Lessons – How well is your child meeting our four expectations: to speak and behave respectfully to staff and students; to respect your learning and the learning of others; to respect the school environment; respect the wider community.
A – Excellent: The student always demonstrates exemplary conduct, showing respect for their own learning and that of others and always meets the school’s four expectations. The student is a positive role model for others.
B – Good: The student demonstrates good conduct, showing respect for their own learning and that of others, and regularly meets the school’s four expectations.
C – Improvement Required: The student’s behaviour can sometimes hinder their learning and that of others, and on occasions does not meet the school’s four expectations.
D – Significant Cause for Concern: The student’s behaviour hinders their own learning and that of others and does not meet the school’s four expectations.
Effort in Lessons – How well is your child engaged in their learning?
A – Excellent: an exemplary attitude at all times – concentrates and participates eagerly in all activities and is always willing to try their best.
B – Good: a positive attitude, working hard, concentrating in lessons and participating well in a variety of tasks.
C – Improvement Required: does what is required but tends to lack self-motivation and concentration. Often needs encouragement to participate, and work/effort is of an inconsistent standard.
D – Significant Cause for Concern: often needs significant encouragement to engage with the lesson and related tasks. Work/effort regularly is not representative of their best.
Effort in Homework
A – Excellent: consistently completed to the best of a student’s ability and submitted on time.
B – Good: usually completed to the best of a student’s ability and submitted on time.
C – Improvement Required: quality is variable and/or not submitted consistently on time.
D – Significant Cause for Concern: regularly fails to submit homework or homework is of poor quality.
Key Piece Assessment
This indicates the level achieved in a specific piece of work or test, carried out during each assessment week:
W Working at a pre-Key Stage 3 level
W+ Working towards the expected standard
M Reaching the expected standard
M+ Consistently and securely meeting the expected standard
E Working at the expected standard and exceeding in several areas
E+ Comfortably exceeding all of the expected standards
Subject leaders have developed standards that relate to the content outlined on the curriculum information pages of our website.
Ongoing grade
This indicates the grade that the student is working at, taking into account all work completed during the term, not just during the assessment week. We use the same set of levels as for the Key Piece Assessment. Subject leaders have developed standards that relate to the content outlined on the curriculum information pages of our website.
How Parents / Carers can help:
Look carefully at the grades your child has achieved in the latest progress report. Compare them with your child’s previous reports – these can be viewed on the Edulink One app under ‘Documents’. Note any positives where your child has improved and encourage them to continue to do their very best. It is also helpful to collectively identify areas for improvement which should be revisited regularly.
Please contact us if you have any concerns or if you think your child is doing less well in a certain subject. Your child’s form tutor, subject teachers or Head of Year can assist here and you can do this by emailing or telephoning school. For anything urgent, please call to make an appointment.
Core PE Reporting
Your child’s report for Core PE has three areas of focus: Head, Heart and Skill:
Head >> Understanding and demonstration of the 4 termly values.
| TERM 1 :Autumn | TERM 2 : Winter | TERM 3 :Summer |
| Social Interaction | Resilience | Perseverance |
| Empathy | Motivation | Determination |
| Respect | Adaptability | Commitment |
| Co-operation | Confidence | Self Reflection |
Heart >> Effort, attitude and organisation in PE.
Skill >> Performance in a range of sports over the term.
A Gold, Silver or Bronze award is available for each strand of HHS in PE.
Each term students will take part in a broad range of sports. Through these sports we will explore 4 key values that all students should be able to understand, demonstrate and hopefully transfer into other areas of school and home life. In every sport students will develop skills and work on improving their performance. All students will be encouraged to give maximum effort in all sports and should always bring their correct PE Kit.
More information can be found here.
Years 10 & 11
Our Year 10 report provides information about your child’s learning in several different areas:
- Behaviour in Lessons
- Effort in Lessons
- Effort in Homework
- An assessment or ‘key piece’ level, reported during the spring and summer terms
- An ongoing assessment level
- A Predicted Final Grade
- End of Year 11 Target Grade
Behaviour in Lessons – How well is your child meeting our four expectations: to speak and behave respectfully to staff and students; to respect your learning and the learning of others; to respect the school environment; respect the wider community.
A – Excellent: The student always demonstrates exemplary conduct, showing respect for their own learning and that of others and always meets the school’s four expectations. The student is a positive role model for others.
B – Good: The student demonstrates good conduct, showing respect for their own learning and that of others, and regularly meets the school’s four expectations.
C – Improvement Required: The student’s behaviour can sometimes hinder their learning and that of others, and on occasions does not meet the school’s four expectations.
D – Significant Cause for Concern: The student’s behaviour hinders their own learning and that of others and does not meet the school’s four expectations.
Effort in Lessons – How well is your child engaged in their learning?
A – Excellent: an exemplary attitude at all times – concentrates and participates eagerly in all activities and always willing to try their best.
B – Good: a positive attitude, working hard, concentrating in lessons and participating well in a variety of tasks.
C – Improvement Required: does what is required but tends to lack self-motivation and concentration. Often needs encouragement to participate and work/effort is of an inconsistent standard.
D – Significant Cause for Concern: often needs significant encouragement to engage with the lesson and related tasks. Work/effort regularly is not representative of their best.
Effort in Homework
A – Excellent: consistently completed to the best of a student’s ability and submitted on time.
B – Good: usually completed to the best of a student’s ability and submitted on time.
C – Improvement Required: quality is variable and/or not submitted consistently on time.
D – Significant Cause for Concern: regularly fails to submit homework or homework is of poor quality.
Key Piece Assessment
Indicates the students’ current GCSE (or equivalent) grade achieved in a specific piece of work or test, carried out during our assessment weeks.
Ongoing grade
Indicates the current GCSE (or equivalent) grade that the student is working at, taking into account all work completed during the term, not just during the assessments.
Target grade
Indicates the GCSE (or equivalent) grade that a student should aspire to at the end of the key stage (Year 11), based on KS2 prior attainment and a teacher’s professional judgement. We use data provided by the DfE to generate a target grade for each student in each subject; this is based on the SATs tests taken at the end of Year 6. We then add a small amount to ensure that all students are stretched and challenged. If a student progresses more quickly or has underachieved at KS2 then we will increase the target to maintain challenge.
Predicted grade (Year 10 Block B report onwards)
Predicted Grade indicates the most likely grade that the student will achieve at the end of KS4 based on all the current evidence.
Every child will progress at a different rate and this can also differ from subject to subject. We issue predicted grades for each subject which indicate the grade we think students are most likely to achieve given their current effort in class and homework.
Please remember that our targets are set to challenge students and you should not be alarmed if your child is not on or exceeding targets in all subjects. If you have any concerns about the progress of your child, please contact the relevant curriculum leader.
Years 12 & 13
Our Year 12 and 13 reports provide information about your child’s learning in a number of different areas:
- Attitude to Learning
- Homework
- An assessment or ‘key piece’ grade, reported twice a year
- An ongoing assessment grade
- A predicted final grade from term two onwards
- Target grade
An example Year 12 report:
Attitude to Learning: Classwork
A Excellent: an exemplary attitude at all times – concentrates and participates eagerly in all activities and always willing to try their best
B Good: a positive attitude, working hard, concentrates in lessons and participates well in a variety of tasks
C Room for improvement: does what is required but tends to lack self-motivation and concentration
Often needs encouragement to participate and work/effort is of an inconsistent standard
D Unsatisfactory: often needs significant encouragement to engage with the lesson and related tasks. Work/effort regularly not representative of their best
E Serious cause for concern
Key Cause for Concern
If your child’s ‘Attitude to Learning’ is a C, D or E grade, the subject teacher will provide a reason for this, such as lateness, effort or behaviour in class. If you wish to discuss any key causes for concern, please contact the subject teacher in the first instance, or where there are multiple causes for concern, your child’s head of year can assist.
Homework and Independent Study
Homework and Independent Study are an important part of learning in the sixth form. Independent Study is not simply completing homework, but reflects the time each learner spends reflecting on their work, reading around a subject, or engaging in wider learning via the internet, television and social media, for example by subscribing to TED Talks or the Khan Academy.
Independent study is fundamental to success in the sixth form and at university. We timetable all students for three periods of independent study in a room staffed with a teacher; this should be seen as just a beginning. A regular and genuine commitment to independent study will pay huge dividends in final grades.
A Excellent: always completed to the best of a student’s ability
B Very good: usually completed to the best of a student’s ability
C Room for Improvement: quality is variable
D Unsatisfactory: regularly completed to an unsatisfactory standard
E Serious cause for concern: persistently completed to an unsatisfactory standard
Key Piece Assessment, Ongoing, Predicted Final Grade and Target Grade
For A level courses grades A*- E or U (no pass) and for vocational courses grades Di* (Distinction*), Di (Distinction), M (Merit), P (Pass) or U (no pass). Indicates the students’ current A Level (or equivalent) grade achieved in a specific piece of work or test, carried out during the Block Assessment week.
Ongoing grade
Indicates the current grade that the student is working at, taking into account all work completed during the term, not just during the assessment week.
Predicted Final Grade
Indicates the grade that your child’s teacher believes that they are most likely to achieve at the end of the course. This is based upon a teacher’s professional judgement of the ability and performance demonstrated to date.
Target grade
Shows the grade that a student should aspire to and could, at best, achieve at the end of the course. This is based upon a teacher’s professional judgement of ability and performance demonstrated to date.
How Parents / Carers can help:
Look carefully at the grades your child has achieved in the latest progress report. Compare them with your child’s previous reports – these can be viewed on the Edulink One app under ‘Documents’. Note any positives where your child has improved and encourage them to continue to do their very best. It is also helpful to collectively identify areas for improvement which should be revisited regularly.
Please contact us if you have any concerns or if you think your child is doing less well in a certain subject. Your child’s form tutor, subject teachers or Head of Year can assist here and you can do this by contacting us.