Guest55 wrote:
Has he been given target grades? Most schools use Fischer Family Trust which gives the probability of each GCSE grade based on prior attainment.
Thanks G55. We haven't had any target grades set as such. They do list them as excellent, good, below so I guess that tells me and I am assuming they will let us know (maybe at Parent's evening?) what GCSE grades he is on course for.
scary mum wrote:
At BGS targets are set and then progress reports are issued with a traffic light system (red, amber, green) to indicate whether targets are being met. There couldn't be one expected grade for 150 boys. Do you mean what grades should they be getting now in order to achieve 7, 8, 9?
Thank you scary mum - you have reminded me that the traffic light system is coming on line soon; I had forgotten all about that.
loobylou wrote:
I'm not 100% sure I understand the question.
Dd was in year 10 last year. They got a report with a "predicted grade" (based on progress through to the end of year 9 I think) and an "expected grade" based on current working.
For the exams they were told what grade that mark would have achieved if it was in a GCSE (but then reminded that of course they were only being tested on a percentage of the course content).
I don't get the impression that there's a linear progression in terms of grades if that's what you were looking for?
loobyloo, do you remember when they gave out the predicted grade report as I don't think I have seen that yet? And, yes I guess I was thinking about a linear progression in the same way in primary they were expected to move up "3 notches" in a year.
Thank you all for taking the time to reply

Edited for typo