Progress and Reporting

Progress of each pupil in their academic studies is carefully monitored both by the subject teacher and the personal tutor and there is regular communication with parents should a problem arises.

Reports and interims are written six times a year and are available on the parent portal straight away. Each set of reports or interims is a chance for the tutor to sit the pupil down and assess progress and the pupil is expected to reflect on that in his journal. The reports are twice a year whilst the interims are four times a year. Each term, in addition to an academic report, the pupil receives a Personal Contribution Grade.

The purpose of interims and reports is to give pupils feedback on how to improve their academic studies. Both reports and interims include, for each subject, a target grade and a grade indicative of progress. They also contain a comment providing a brief progress review and suggestions for improvement.

Reports provide a more formal review of performance over a substantial portion of the year and include the following in addition to teachers’ grades and comments: pupils’ comments, tutor’s comments, HM’s comments and The Master’s comments.