School Reports for 2019

t’s that end of year school report time and hence time to see how well the kids have been performing at school and more importantly how much effort they have put in. A bit of a mixed bag of results this year.

Joshua had a pretty bad report last year and as such he was under the most pressure to perform this year as he missed out on any rewards last year. Obviously the really good news with Joshua is that he did work hard and he did pass all his SATS. However according to his report it would appear that once he was through his SATS he kind of figured it was job done and stepped off the gas (so to speak). So SATS aside, his report shows that he is working at the expected standard for maths and science and putting in a good level of effort, but on the downside he is only “working towards the expected standard” for reading and writing and needs to put in more effort. As with last year I am ok with the “standard” rating as not all kids can excel at every subject, what I am not OK with is the effort as I believe this should be “Excellent level of effort” on all subjects. 

Brandon’s report was pretty good as always and nothing to be too concerned about. Weirdly his report shows he is only “working towards expected level” for writing yet his writing looks really good. His reading and science are at the expected level and very impressively he is “working at greater depth within the expected standard” for Maths with “Excellent level of effort”.

Last but by no means least is Holly’s first ever end of year school report. Her report differs from the boys as it is broken down in to the following seven areas of learning:

1.       Communication and language (CL)

2.       Physical Development (PD)

3.       Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED)

4.       Literacy (L)

5.       Mathematics (M)

6.       Understanding the World (UTW), and

7.       Expressive Arts and Design (EAD)

Holly has achieved the expected level of development in CL, PD, PSED, UTW and EAD, but she is still working towards the expected level in Maths and English. The only real negative on Holly’s report is her 93% attendance but then this was due to us pulling her out of school for 4 days to go to Euro Disney and then straight afterwards she caught chicken pox and was off school for another week.

So overall quite pleasing reports. Josh has improved but could have done better, Brandon excelled as normal and Holly is pretty much where she needs to be with no major concerns.