Assertive Mentoring Report
Assertive Mentoring is an increasingly popular suite of resources to raise standards in primary and secondary schools. I’ve worked with several schools recently to incorporate key assertive mentoring techniques into their assessment manager system – and one of the key outputs is shown above. It’s a 360 degree view of all the issues that might stop the pupil achieving. This is the form as it rolls off the printer, one per pupil and ready for staff to complete. All the targets, teacher assessments, attendance details and traffic lights are created in assessment manager and just printed out here, using SIMS Individual Pupil Reports. Schools love it because it saves hours of staff time and produces a single sheet of paper that highlights all the most important information in one place. It’s just another example of how SIMS Assessment Manager can make life simpler for schools, while simultaneously driving school improvement.
Hello. Is there any way I could get hold of this so that I could use it in my school please?
Hi Hannah,
Unfortunately the template I have is very much tied to the aspects and results etc used by the schools I install it in, so a copy of the report just wouldn’t work. Your local Sims support team might be able to help. I could help but I’m based in the northwest so it’s difficult!
That’s fine. Thank you for replying.
Can you tell me though how you get the colours to insert in the individual report please? I presume they relate to a colour on a marksheet.
The colours in the report come from the marksheets where I use a ‘nested if then else’ formula to create traffic lights. Within the individual pupil report I just then need to tick the ‘include colours’ box and the colours are also printed on the report.
We use the traffic light system on our markbooks which are similar to your example. We would also like to add these to the student reports, but unfortunately I can’t seem to find a way of pulling them through as they aren’t attached to an aspect.
Any ideas of a way around this or do we need to attached the formulas to the aspects?
Thank you
First, make sure that you’ve ticked the box in Individual Pupil Reports that says ‘print report with colour’. That should print any colour that has been applied to the aspect. If the the colour has been applied to a column with no aspect behind it you might be able to use the ‘also colour this aspect’ option in the nested-if-then-else formula. Hope this helps.
Hi,
I notice that you have School Action, School Action Plus and Statement on your example. Are these created with the report? If so, how? This is not (irritatingly) a field that can be added to individual reports. I’m loath to have yet another static aspect defined…
Regards
Gary
The references to school action and school action plus are just plain text (the school just highlighted whichever applied). You’re right -individual reports don’t allow us to use the Sims stored values. Maybe one day!
H
Hi David,very interested in implementing this at current school. Do you have a contact so could maybe get this set up or seek your advice. Also based in Northwest.
much appreciated if possible
Hi Sue, you can email David@davidpott.com or phone 07528358827