For several years the school has had a system for monitoring progress throughout the school. Subject teachers are asked to comment on the pupil's standard of work, effort, attitude and attendance. Pupils are interviewed by their class tutors and if necessary, remedial action, including parental involvement, can be taken where a pupil is making unsatisfactory progress.
In Year 10 and 11, considerable efforts are made to ensure that all pupils achieve their potential in the Public Examinations. This regular monitoring of progress has proved itself to be a valuable complement to our standard reporting system. Pupils who are identified as not performing as well as they should are assigned a mentor who will have regular meetings with them. These mentors will set the pupils various targets that will help them get back on track. Besides this, pupils are now provided with target levels for all their Teacher Assessments and Test Units in Key Stage 3. Upper School pupils are similarly given target grades for the GCSE, Entry Level, GNVQ and Advanced courses. Reports for parents are written with these target levels and grades in mind.