Report Writing Batch Planner

Teachers commonly report five to twelve minutes per pupil for a full written report, depending on how much is free text and whether attainment data has to be looked up separately. Comment banks cut the median but rarely the maximum, because the hard reports are hard for reasons a bank cannot help with.

They cut typing time and improve consistency, and they make reports read as though they were written by a bank — which parents notice. The best compromise most schools land on is a banked structure with one genuinely specific sentence per pupil.

Say so in writing, with the arithmetic, before the deadline. A leadership team can move a deadline or shorten a template. Neither is possible the night before.