Upper Sixth Form Self-Report December 

Upper Sixth Form Academic Reflection and Commitment

Writing a comment on your report provides you with a chance to take a leading role in your learning. You should note any themes found across your subjects and record your own progress and successes (and failures too where they have provided a learning experience, as they often do!). You should also reflect on the school learning behaviours; you should acknowledge which you have made progress with, and which will be a focus for the term ahead.

With the above in mind, you should answer the following two questions in a short paragraph after a discussion with your tutor:

Q1 What have you done (or not done) to develop your learning this term?

Q2 What specific commitments do you make to close the gap between your current attainment and those grades to which you aspire next summer? 

This section should start with ‘I commit to…’

Your report will be included as written in your full published report (for your family and school record).

Helpful prompts for all year groups are as follows: ·

• Which learning behaviours are a current focus for you? · How have I used the science of learning to develop my study skills? Link to the science of learning to develop your study skills?
• How effectively have I responded to the feedback provided by my teachers?
• How will you close the gap between your current levels of attainment and those to which you aspire?
• Are there any other elements of school life you would particularly like to record?
• How have you improved your skills, or addressed misconceptions/topics you have found difficult?
• How have you approached revisiting learning from across your full IB or A Level courses and revision for tests?

Example: Upper Sixth

It has been a good term and I feel I have made some great progress, especially in Biology. Whilst one or two of my test scores were not the grades that I wanted, I have tried really hard to make sure that any revision materials that I made for the block tests were really good so that I can use them again in the mocks and in my final exams. Meeting up with someone else studying the same subjects as me for three study periods in the week has been helpful. We check in with each other and it makes me do some work when I might not have used these periods well last term. I only started this recently.

I commit to making a revision schedule before the holidays that I stick to and organising all my study materials on the first weekend of the holidays before that starts. My revision will include tackling science past papers under timed conditions.

The technical bit

To access reports, you will need to go to the Pupil Portal and follow the below workflow.

Pupil Profile | Self Appraisal

This is what you will see:

Screen 1 (after following the above workflow)

Screen 2 (upon selecting the report cycle name (i.e. US Full Y13 A Au2)