What's different about this?
Instead of each class teacher writing 30 full reports at the end of the year – consuming their evenings and weekends – and the headteacher spending 466 hours checking over every report for over 1,000 pupils:
- The whole process happens during school hours
- Teachers and pupils add to learning journals "little and often" throughout the year
- Teachers have a 5-minute conversation (no longer!) with each child in their class each term to review progress and set targets
- Pupils update their learning journals during regular reflection lessons
- Leaders monitor quality via informal 'book-looks' of journals during the year
- Teachers fill in simple cover sheets that fulfil the statutory reporting requirements and go home to parents with the learning journals
You're in a primary school, where it's usually one teacher writing the whole report for a child You can give your class teachers 4 days out of class a year. (Hazelbury decided the cost of supply cover was worth it for the impact on teacher workload and work-life
