Reports will be sent to parents at three points during the academic year.

All reports will include the following information:

• Authorised absences (half-day sessions)
• Unauthorised absences (half-day sessions)
• Lates
• Achievement points
• Behaviour points
• Latest attainment information expressed as a numerical level or predicted grade
• An “Attitude to Achieve” level
• Target levels or grades

During the course of the academic year, successive reports will build upon one another to provide an overview of progress from one reporting period to the next. In this way, parents/carers will have a clear understanding of those subjects where good progress is being made, as well as those in which this is not the case.

One of the three reports will be a “full report”. As well as the information outlined above, this will also include comments from your child’s form tutor as well as one of the academy’s senior leaders.

As well as reports, we will continue to offer parents’ evenings for each year group to provide opportunities for parents to make direct contact with subject teachers in order to discuss progress.

You are urged to attend these evenings. Our parents’ evening attendance data shows there is a very clear link between student progress and parents’ direct contact with the academy on such occasions.