Week 37 · Mon 7 – Fri 11 Sep 2026

The week

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Draft
Fri 11 Sep 21:12
Friday routine

Study blocks

19 of 22

3 missed · 1 short · 9 extra

movement ticked 0 of 0 · review block not ticked

Hours

115.3 of 13.1

Spanish under the timetable

Timed handwritten

1 this week

Timed handwritten practice — 60 min (the block length, not a measured sitting) · 0 blanks

Topics moved

evidence only on 44 more

The register

Mon7 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (mixed)09:15Maths — new topic
10:30Move — walk, bike or dance – 11:00
11:00English Literature — set text
12:00Lunch + outside – 13:00
13:00Computer Science — Python14:15English Language — creative writing
1 extra
Tue8 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (Mon's work)09:15Maths — interleaved practice
10:30Move – 11:00
11:00English Literature — second text
12:00Lunch + outside – 13:00
13:00Timed handwritten practice14:00Computer Science — theory or code
2 extra
Computer Science — Taught arithmetic operators (P08) fully before setting any task — the deliberate fix for yesterday's session, where a Code Lab brief was set before the teaching. Warm-up 3/3 unaided: input() returns a string, what int() does, and the named-constant justification in her own words. Taught real division, integer division and modulus with 17/5 as the worked example, naming the AQA pseudo-code equivalents DIV and MOD. She then predicted 20 / 8 = 2.5, 20 // 8 = 2 and 20 % 8 = 4 correctly, modulus included. Met the float trap: predicted 60 for price + price * 0.2, corrected to 60.0 once told that a float in the sum makes the result a float, and identified int() as the fix herself. Solved Code Lab \"Adding VAT\" independently, 3/3 tests, using the constant, int() on input and int() on output; code was clean and correct first paste. Identified // for hours and % for minutes unprompted; started \"Hours and minutes\" when the block timer ended.
Wed9 Sep
09:00Retrieval quiz — Maths, Lit, CS
09:35Quick move – 09:45
09:45Spanish — vocab + listening
2 extra
Mathematics — Tree diagrams, completing the probability block. Starter 5/5 with no prompting: the owed exit-ticket question from 8 Sep answered well — she verified the claimant's arithmetic (15/60 = 1/4, so the value is right) and THEN gave two criticisms, sample size and the estimate wording. That is the answer-targeting habit resolving: she now checks and then answers the question asked, rather than checking instead of answering. Also P8 with replacement 9/64 simplified unprompted, 18/24 → 3/4, P4 fourth flavour 0.3 with the running total written out, and A4 4(2x+3) − 3(x−5) → 5x+27 with the negative-times-negative handled. Tree diagrams taught: branches from a point sum to 1, multiply along a path, add between paths, all four ends sum to 1. With replacement — she identified the correct paths for all four questions but initially gave only the paths, not the probabilities, needing one prompt to produce numbers; all four then correct (6/25, 6/25, 12/25, 13/25) and she used the (c)+(d)=1 check. Without replacement taught: asked only for one branch's fractions, she produced the entire correct tree unprompted including 2/4, 2/4, 3/4, 1/4. All four probabilities correct but left as twentieths. Exit ticket (4 mint, 6 toffee, without replacement) 5/5 INDEPENDENT, no hints: tree fully correct with all six probabilities labelled, then 12/90, 30/90, 48/90 and the sum-to-1 check. Left unsimplified again.
English Language — Branching Story day, fairground setting, untimed per the stimulus policy (extra — no English Language block on today's timetable). Taught T5.1, new paragraph at every shift (place, time, focus, mood); she identified the break point in a model paragraph unaided. 5-minute timed branch map produced three branches inside the time; the weak branch (food and games — same place, same time) was rebuilt into an enclosed stall path after one prompt. Wrote the ticket-box node in one go (2030 calendar dating the emptiness; dust and cobwebs as a non-sight sense), then re-laid it with four paragraph breaks, every one landing on the shift itself, unaided. Self-mended a sentence fragment ("You continue looking. When you see there's nothing.") while re-laying the page, unprompted. Her closing lines: wrote the first bit of my story; next is writing more.
Thu10 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (mixed)09:15Deep block — Maths / CS alternatingshape
10:20Move – 10:45
10:45English Literature — poetry / essay planning
11:30Spanish — vocab review
11:45Group – 15:20
Fri11 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (whole week)
09:15Maths — consolidate + fix errorsshape
10:30Move – 11:00
11:00English Language — exam technique11:40Lit quotation retrievalshape
12:00Lunch + outside – 13:00
13:00Computer Science — quiz + fix codeshort
13:45Spanish — vocab + short reading
14:15Weekly review with Dad
2 extra
Mathematics — S2 charts and tables — the June misconception targeted directly. Starter 5/5 with nothing prompted: P(both red) without replacement 42/90 → 7/15 simplified unprompted, which is the step that had slipped on every hard question for a week; map scale 1:25 000 with 4 cm → 100 000 cm → 1 km, carrying the conversion all the way; error interval 12.35 ≤ w < 12.45 with correct inequality notation and the variable named; £12.53 change; and a sampling criticism where she volunteered both the small-sample and the bus-stop-bias points when only one was asked. Grouped frequency table (test scores, 30 students): 6/7. Total 30, "more than 9" = 19 — the exact boundary that was attempted and got wrong in the June diagnostics, now correct. "9 or more" she answered as "between 19 and 27", which is not the expected answer but is better reasoning than the expected answer: she spotted that the 5–9 group hides how many scored exactly 9. The exam convention that questions always fall on group boundaries was then explained. "At least 15" = 8 and "fewer than 10" = 11 both correct. Only slip: gave a count (19) where a fraction was asked for, then wrote 19/30 and correctly identified that it does not simplify. Bar chart (pets, 40 children) 4/4 including the more-than-1 versus at-least-1 pair. Exit ticket (puzzle times, 60 people, grouped with inequality notation) 5/5 INDEPENDENT: 39, 42, 7/20 simplified, 1/10, and a correct if thin explanation of why an exact time cannot be read off grouped data. She read 10 < t ≤ 15 correctly without the notation being taught, placing 15 in that group — question 2 answered 42, not 30.
Sat12 Sep
1 extra
Mathematics — S4 averages, taught from a list through frequency tables to grouped data. Starter 5/5 on the maths: shoe-size table total 24 and 12 above size 5 (boundary reading correct again), mean of a five-number list, 3(x+4) = 2(x−1) → x = −14 WITH the expansion line written out unprompted, and a reverse percentage 63 ÷ 0.7 = £90 on non-round numbers. Q1 asked for a drawn FREQUENCY tree; she drew a correct PROBABILITY tree instead — all counts right (50/40, 32/18, 29/11) and the answer 11 correct, but presented as fractions on branches rather than counts in boxes. The distinction was taught: probability tree branches sum to 1, frequency tree boxes sum to the count above them. Mean/median/mode/range from a list: 3/4, with the median-of-six halfway step handled correctly; only slip was rounding 34/6 to 5.7 unasked — do not round unless told. Mean from a frequency table taught with the size × frequency row; goals table 3/3 including the modal-value-not-frequency trap. Median from a frequency table taught by counting positions; pets table 3/3 including the 13th-position median and the range taken from values not frequencies. Estimated mean from grouped data taught with midpoints; she gave all four midpoints correctly, then produced 2.67 cm for the mean of plants between 0 and 40 cm — a division error, and no sense-check applied. Session ended there; the median group was never reached.
Sun13 Sep
1 extra

week 37·19 of 22 blocks so far·Computer Science 101.4h·English Language 4.2h·English Literature 3.1h·Mathematics 6.2h·Spanish 0.5h

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Missed

Done, but short

Done, but not the shape the block asked for

A missed block means nothing was logged against it, which is sometimes a logging failure rather than a missed morning. Movement and the review block are never listed here: they are ticked or they are not, and not ticking one costs nothing. A block marked by hand is Dad's word that it happened, counted apart from the blocks the record proves. An extra never offsets a miss; it is counted beside it.

Decisions for Dad

Decided in the review chat, never here. This page has no button that changes the record — tracker_excuse_block and tracker_decide_day_off are Dad's, in chat.

Hours against the timetable

Computer Science101.38 / 2.75
English Language4.17 / 1.42
English Literature3.08 / 3.08
Mathematics6.17 / 4.83
Spanish0.50 / 1.00

Planned is the timetable in force this week, single-subject blocks only; the mixed retrieval blocks and the timed rotation belong to no one subject and are in neither figure. A short block counts the minutes logged.

By subject

Exam Skills

AQA GCSE exam technique Untiered · 17 topics

0%+0Exam Skills coverage over eight weeks, 0% to 0%

Moved this week

No topic movement this week
Sat this week
None.
Queue top
T2 Pacing by marks per minute — Minutes followed marks once, on a two-question resit after rehearsal; fell as marks rose on the two full papers before it (30 Sep, 2 Oct). Next full paper decides.

GCSE Computer Science

AQA 8525 v1.3 Untiered · 100 topics

2%+2GCSE Computer Science coverage over eight weeks, 0% to 2%

Aimline 2% · 1 behind · 5 touches, +5 steps

Moved this week

P17 3.2.8 String ↔ integer/real conversion → Developing → GapP01 3.2.1 Data types: integer, real, Boolean, character, string → Developing → Not startedP01 3.2.1 Data types: integer, real, Boolean, character, string evidence only DevelopingP17 3.2.8 String ↔ integer/real conversion → Not started → DevelopingP08 3.2.3 Arithmetic operators incl. real division, DIV and MOD → Developing → SecureP01 3.2.1 Data types: integer, real, Boolean, character, string → Not started → Developing
Sat this week
None.
Practice
2 runs · 3 items · 33.3% right first time · best run 1.
Queue top
A04 3.1.1 Reading and writing AQA pseudo-code and program code — Inclusive FOR bound now right cold under time (paper #10 Q7). Still to see: 'last value of i' asked alone, and a WHILE line read in pseudo-code. Secure on a set of 3+ pseudo-code lines read unaided on one day including a WHILE.
Unfinished
1 opened, 0 closed, 2 open now.
open Trace of the running-total version (7,3,0 -> 10) not run. Handwritten while loop from a one-line brief with no scaffold still owed (due by 29 Oct); 19 Oct's was guided line by line. (session 117, 14 days)
open 166 → binary check line not written (add the 1-columns back to 166). Store-vs-print program task not started. (session 136, 10 days)

P03 selection: restart teaching next session — introduced Fri but prediction check unanswered, no task attempted.— Claude, Fri 11 Sep 21:12

GCSE English Language

AQA 8700 Untiered · 126 topics

2%+2GCSE English Language coverage over eight weeks, 0% to 2%

Aimline 2% · 1 ahead · 10 touches, +8 steps

Moved this week

R2.1 Q2: word/phrase → connotation → effect → Developing → Not startedT5.2 Standard English, agreement, tense consistency evidence only Not startedR2.2 Q2: feature/technique → effect (no spotting) evidence only Not startedR2.1 Q2: word/phrase → connotation → effect → Not started → DevelopingT1.1 No comma splices evidence only DevelopingW1.2 Descriptive: chosen non-sight senses evidence only Developing
Sat this week
"The Wreck" — Q5 descriptive, 2026-format practice task (timed, handwritten) — 21/40, 0 blanks (8 September 2026).
Queue top
R1 P1 Q1: multiple-choice retrieval (4) — One unaided 4/4 in the multiple-choice format (7 Oct). Paper #10 (21 Oct) 2/3, the 'today' qualifier missed. Secure needs a second unaided full-marks MCQ on a different source on another day.
Unfinished
0 opened, 0 closed, 1 open now.
open Two closing lines (what I did / what's next) not written at the 11:40 stop. Writing-block items still owed from 20 Oct: new line for each speaker in her story passage; harbour piece's planned last line and a five-minute reread. (session 135, 10 days)

R2.1 connotation chain reverted to not started (no score recorded) — retest on a fuller/real extract with a number attached before promoting again.— Claude, Fri 11 Sep 21:12

GCSE English Literature

AQA 8702 Untiered · 205 topics

1%+1GCSE English Literature coverage over eight weeks, 0% to 1%

Aimline 2% · 8 behind · 8 touches, +4 steps

Moved this week

K6.1 spelling incl. names & terms → Developing → GapP1.01 Ozymandias (Shelley): about/voice/form/methods/quotes/context → Secure → DevelopingK6.1 spelling incl. names & terms → Not started → DevelopingK4.2 compare speaker/voice evidence only GapK5 Writer as subject, not character evidence only DevelopingK1 What–how–why paragraph evidence only Developing
Sat this week
None.
Practice
1 run · 3 items · 100% right first time · best run 3.
Queue top
S1.1 Macbeth: whole text read/heard once — Scene 3 read to 'The greatest is behind'; unread: Macbeth's 'horrid image' aside to the end, and the witches' opening. Scene 2 not read whole. Solo chunk now 19 lines with a setup and one countable question. Side-notes-only paraphrase 0/2 first time on 5 Oct.
Unfinished
0 opened, 0 closed, 5 open now.
open Act 1 Scene 3 not read (planned for this block); Scene 2 read only as three glossed key lines plus its ending told, not the whole scene. Character cards not opened. (session 62, 32 days)
open Exit recall (2 questions, book closed) not run at the 12:00 stop; Act 1 Scene 3 unread from Macbeth's 'horrid image' aside to the end; third side-notes paraphrase, the storm-and-witches question, the three-quote ask-back and the Act 1 three-sentence summary not run. (session 72, 28 days)
open Ten steps of the Macbeth plot cold with nothing on screen: 12 Oct's list matched the lines already in the chat, so recall is unverified. Step 7 still lacks 'born of a woman'. Paragraph work not reached; no break taken. Not asked: whether Act 1 Scene 3 was read at home. (session 96, 21 days)
open Paragraph's why sentence still vague (what the 'horrid image' is of, why it worries the audience); quote not recalled cold. Ten plot steps cold on paper not run (owed since 12 Oct). Sc 3 'horrid image' aside to end still not read from the text. (session 116, 14 days)
open Exit-ticket paragraph feedback not actioned: quote not embedded, method not named. Quote 'seem to fear' not recalled cold. Her two closing lines not seen. Ten plot steps cold still owed. (session 118, 14 days)

K1 what-how-why paragraph: land one angle on the first attempt, not the second — still needs an instructed narrow this week.— Claude, Fri 11 Sep 21:12

GCSE Mathematics

AQA 8300 Higher · 64 topics

30%+7GCSE Mathematics coverage over eight weeks, 22% to 30%

Aimline 27% · 7 ahead · 18 touches, +13 steps

Moved this week

P4-P5 Probabilities sum to 1; sample size → Developing → SecureN16 Applying number in context evidence only SecureR1-R3 Scale and unit conversion evidence only SecureN15 Error intervals and bounds → Developing → SecureP6-P7 Tree diagrams, sample spaces, Venn diagrams evidence only SecureS2 Charts and tables → Gap → Developing
Sat this week
None.
Practice
6 runs · 52 items · 86.5% right first time · best run 10.
Queue top
N1-N3 Place value, four operations, negatives, order of operations — Demoted by the 7 Oct paper; 14 Oct paper 1/2 with 3² as 6. Back to secure: order of operations with a power in it, right inside a timed section on another day (squares right cold 16 Oct, untimed).
Unfinished
0 opened, 0 closed, 1 open now.
open Line symmetry stopped at her 'times up': the fold rule in her own words not answered, two unaided counts on fresh shapes not run, worksheet answers unmarked (pictures not visible to the tutor), and whether she watched the video not answered. (session 138, 0 days)

N1-N3 place value/four operations untouched 10 weeks; also fix the deep-block/consolidate shape miss (plain practice run substituted twice this week).— Claude, Fri 11 Sep 21:12

GCSE Spanish

AQA 8692 Higher · 100 topics

1%+0GCSE Spanish coverage over eight weeks, 0% to 1%

Aimline 2% · 3 behind · 0 touches, +1 step

Moved this week

T01 Identity and relationships → Not started → Developing
Sat this week
None.
Practice
1 run · 10 items · 80% right first time · best run 8.
Queue top
T01 Identity and relationships — divorciarse as a verb in a sentence still owed; whole Set 3 round not before 2 Nov.

Catch up Thu's vocab review and Fri's vocab+reading (both missed) before starting Unit 1 Sets 2-3 vocabulary testing.— Claude, Fri 11 Sep 21:12

Coverage is weighted by status and measured against today's syllabus, so an older week reads against the topics that exist now. The line is the eight weeks ending with this one, scaled to its own range.

In the margin — the week's review

Written, not computed

One note per week, append-only. Version 1 of 1, written by the Friday routine on Friday 11 September at 21:12.

Held

Maths had the strongest week: multiple secures confirmed with independent evidence — P8, P6-P7, P1 (drawn tree diagrams), N15, P4-P5 all developing→secure, plus A17 spaced-retested to exam-ready and N16/R1-R3 passed ageing checks. S2's June 'more than n' boundary misconception was taught and corrected across three separate contexts. CS: P08 and P02 both reached secure independently (Hours and minutes; Adding VAT). English Language: first timed Q5 piece produced real AO5/AO6 evidence — 0 blanks, cyclical ending, comma-splice self-correction, all unaided.

Slipped

Three promotions were reverted by audit this week for weak evidence — CS P17 (rested on a two-level jump) and P01 (evidence matched the wrong spec point), Lit K6.1 spelling and P1.01 Ozymandias-secure (needs a second unaided paragraph), Lang R2.1 connotation (no score recorded, skipped gap). Spanish lost both its blocks — Thu vocab review and Fri vocab+reading — and sits at 0.25 of 1.00 planned hours. Friday's maths deep-block/consolidate block and the Lit quotation retrieval were each met with a bare practice run instead of the shape the block asked for.

Next week

Next Tuesday's timed piece is the Lit essay (rotation: Lang Q5 → Lit essay → Maths section → CS program). Thursday's deep block falls to computer science in W38 (even ISO week). CS restarts by teaching P03 selection properly — it was only introduced Friday, prediction check unanswered, no task attempted. Spanish needs both missed blocks made up before starting Unit 1 Sets 2–3 vocabulary testing. English Literature's next paragraph should land one angle on the first attempt, not the second.

Rotation next

Lit essay

Written from the record at Fri 11 Sep 21:12 (3 missed · 0 excused). Since then: Fri 14:10 Code Lab: Hours and minutes, Pass or fail logged outside the timetable; Sat 00:00 S4 averages, taught from a list through frequency tables to grouped data. Starter 5/5 on the maths: shoe-size table total 24 and 12 above size 5 (boundary reading correct again), mean of a five-number list, 3(x+4) = 2(x−1) → x = −14 WITH the expansion line written out unprompted, and a reverse percentage 63 ÷ 0.7 = £90 on non-round numbers. Q1 asked for a drawn FREQUENCY tree; she drew a correct PROBABILITY tree instead — all counts right (50/40, 32/18, 29/11) and the answer 11 correct, but presented as fractions on branches rather than counts in boxes. The distinction was taught: probability tree branches sum to 1, frequency tree boxes sum to the count above them. Mean/median/mode/range from a list: 3/4, with the median-of-six halfway step handled correctly; only slip was rounding 34/6 to 5.7 unasked — do not round unless told. Mean from a frequency table taught with the size × frequency row; goals table 3/3 including the modal-value-not-frequency trap. Median from a frequency table taught by counting positions; pets table 3/3 including the 13th-position median and the range taken from values not frequencies. Estimated mean from grouped data taught with midpoints; she gave all four midpoints correctly, then produced 2.67 cm for the mean of plants between 0 and 40 cm — a division error, and no sense-check applied. Session ended there; the median group was never reached. logged outside the timetable; Sun 17:35 Set 1 Family repeat 8/10 + Set 2 Describing people intro (5 adj, 2 correct sentences incl. agreement). Extra slot. Next: marido, familiar first; then more Set 2. logged outside the timetable.