Please note team leaders have been taken through this blog post, and will work with you to ensure you get this right-it will be addressed in your team meetings.
As you may be aware, we have had some issues with PowerTeacher Pro and the format of the report. The below is intended to rectify this and ensure authentic reporting.
The below will not take long-but please read carefully and follow the instructions to ensure your reports are consistent and authentic.
Final Grades
If your parent strands do not calculate, you need to recalculate the final grades via the method illustrated in the following screenshot. Make sure, where it says classes, you choose all your groups on which you report. Do this as the last step, when you have finished entering grades.
English: Presentation/Handwriting
Parent strands: YC.X.ENG.5- Writing Presentation and YC.X.ENG.6.1 – Handwriting Presentation have the same substrands. They are, however, not linked in PowerTeacher Pro (PTP) and need to be entered separately.
Please therefore go onto PTP and check that both 5.4 and 6.1 have an indicator as they both appear separately on the report. If you have only assessed one, you should copy the grade manually into the other. See below for an example (where in this case 5.4 was assessed correctly via linked standards from assignments, and 6.1 has been manually entered).
Moving forward, our suggestion is to just use ONE of these standards during your assessment, and enter the other manually on the EoY report if necessary.
English: Y1&2 only
YC.X.ENG.4.1 and YC.X.ENG.3.1: word recognition: decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling) are identical in wording and in the substrands attached. This will appear on the report twice however, in two sections-once under phonics and spelling, and once under reading. Please make sure the same indicator is in 4.1 and 3.1, manually entering as necessary.
Moving forward, our suggestion is to just use ONE of these and substrands during your assessments, and we can enter the other manually on the EoY report if necessary.
English-Effort Marks
Please note there are individual effort marks for each section of English: speaking and listening; phonics and spelling; reading; writing; handwriting. Ensure these are all entered.
Mathematics
Note that the previous number strand has been broken down further from last year’s report, and there are now extra parent strands which will appear on the report. See the attached sample reports below for what will appear on the report. For each of these parent strands, there must be some assessment in PTP in order to generate an indicator on the report.
For example, in the below picture, multiplication and division will generate as blank on the report.
If this change means you need to use NA in any strand, you must check this with your coordinator. This must be consistent across the year group.
Science
On the report there is a strand called scientific knowledge. This is in PTP as YC.X.SCI.2.2 (and substrands). The substrands for this are simply the names of the domains (e.g Living Things and their Habitats, Forces, Earth & Space, Animals including Humans) and we would think you are unlikely to have linked these to any assignments. This will therefore generate blank on the report.
Our suggestion for this is that you replicate the grade you used for Application of Knowledge (YC.X.SCI.2.3) – Application of Knowledge. We feel this is the most meaningful way to complete this indicator because the substrands under application of knowledge, by definition, also require scientific knowledge. The substrands currently under the scientific knowledge indicator are not worded in such a way as to be meaningful or useful for assessment.
Blank Reports FYI
y1-report, y2-report,y3-report, y4-report, y5-report, y6-report
