Review and Report
Monitoring Progress
Wrekin Senior’s Target Grade system serves as a crucial tool in guiding pupils to develop to their full potential, and keeping parents informed of their child’s progress.
The Target Grade System combines the most effective and up-to-date practice with an accessible and user-friendly system to enhance the feedback our pupils and parents receive.
Target Grades are the highest grade a teacher believes a pupil can realistically achieve at the end of their course of study. They are aspirational targets, but informed by relevant baseline assessments and a teacher’s professional judgement. A pupil can reasonably expect to hit their Target Grade if they invest the necessary amount of effort in their studies.
Once a pupil’s Target Grade has been set, all subsequent written reporting is based on an assessment of their performance in relation to that grade. The ‘Working At’ grade allows comparison to a pupil’s Target Grade to know how they are performing in relation to their Target Grade.
All reports also contain an Effort Grade in both classwork and prep/homework via a four point scale.
Target Grades, Working At Grades and Effort Grades are all designed to give both pupils and parents a full understanding of how they are performing academically and where they can improve further.
Pupils and parents receive an interim report at the end of every half term and a full report at the end of each term (the only exception to this is where pupils have a Progress Review Meeting (parents’ evening) scheduled, in which case an interim report will be issued shortly before this.