Week 38 · Mon 14 – Fri 18 Sep 2026

The week

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Draft
Fri 18 Sep 21:10
Friday routine

Study blocks

19 of 22

3 missed · 6 short · 3 extra

movement ticked 0 of 0 · review block not ticked

Hours

12.0 of 13.3

3 subjects 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 54 more

The register

Mon14 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 — Python
14:15English Language — creative writing
Tue15 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (Mon's work)short09:15Maths — interleaved practice
10:30Move – 11:00
11:00English Literature — second textshort
12:00Lunch + outside – 13:00
13:00Timed handwritten practice14:00Computer Science — theory or codeshort
2 extra
English Language — Shape C — second timed handwritten Q5 on the record, lengthened to 30 min of writing (5 plan / 30 write / 5 check), on an unseen tutor-set 2026-format prompt; she chose the story opening ('somewhere you shouldn't be') and wrote ~200 words in second-person present, 29 of 30 minutes writing, pencil, photographed, logged as attempt 6: AO5 13/24 (L3 lower), AO6 8/16 (L2 top), 21/40 — same total as 8 Sep but composed differently. Zero comma splices (her own 5-minute check reported 0; verified 0), eight paragraphs each breaking on a shift, and the cyclical last line decided in the plan and delivered. Marks lost to spelling of everyday words (~12), two capitals after commas, one tense slip, and a setting/character carried by borrowed DC names rather than built detail. No retrieval starter (timed block). Her closing lines: timed practice; next is computer science.
Computer Science — P03 selection restarted from teaching and taken through to an independent exit ticket in one block, with both Code Lab selection tasks solved in one run each. Warm-up 5 set: 10/5 → 2.0, 17 % 5 → 2 and input() → "text" (accepted, string flagged) unaided; named-constant justification vague ("easyr") then full after one prompt; DIV/MOD names for // and % → "i don't know", told. Comparison operators taught; 3/3 True/False at mark = 40 including > vs >=. Worked if/else built line by line; whole-program say-back produced a copy of the tutor's bullets, one-line-at-a-time produced her own words; she described the program "saying true/false", corrected in one exchange. Predicted 40 → Pass, 39 → Fail unaided (the check left unanswered on 11 Sep). Code Lab 'Pass or fail' 3/3 first run, no hint; artefact named at task-setting, evidence arrived in her first reply as the pasted app report (1 exchange vs 2 and 4 last week). elif worked example; predicted 20 → Mild and 15 → Mild unaided. 'Grade bands' 4/4 first run with a hint: she had written `else grade < 40:` and diagnosed it herself from the app's line number. Exit ticket (cinema age bands, typed, no run) 4/4 unaided, clean layout. Practice logged: run 25 (app report) and run 26 (Grade bands split out with a fresh id because the app re-sent client_run_id lab-mtwz56ci unchanged — still reusing the previous day's id; parent action). Timed handwritten block #16 missed today; no handwritten code observed.
Wed16 Sep
09:00Retrieval quiz — Maths, Lit, CS
10:00Gwealand Tops – 14:00
14:30Spanish — vocab + listening
Thu17 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (mixed)short09:15Deep block — Maths / CS alternatingshape
10:20Move – 10:45
10:45English Literature — poetry / essay planning
11:30Group – 15:20
15:20Spanish — vocab review
1 extra
Computer Science — P04 definite iteration taught from zero and taken to one solved Code Lab task, after a starter that retested P03 cold; stopped at her request ("time is up") with 'Add them up' fixed but unverified and the handwritten exit ticket not run. Starter 3 set, 3 attempted, 0 blank: if/elif/else at mark=50 → "merit" unaided; DIV/MOD names for // and % → "i don't know" (second consecutive session, told 8 and 15 Sep; hook given: DIV keeps whole numbers, MOD keeps the remainder); spot-the-error on `else score < 40:` → "< 40: is the eror" unaided, the fault named before it reached the app. P04 worked example built line by line: say-back of `for i in range(1, 6):` was "it shows numders in a range" — 'shows' corrected (the line counts, it prints nothing); listed 1 2 3 4 5 correctly. Typed print(i) unindented → SyntaxError, fixed after one prompt. Output came as 1–9 because she had typed range(1, 10); found by pasting her code, and she stated the stop-before rule from it. Predictions 2/2 unaided: range(3, 7) → 3 4 5 6; print(i * 10) over range(1, 4) → 10 20 30. Code Lab 'Times table' solved 3 runs, no hint (run 30, split out under a fresh id because the app re-sent client_run_id lab-mtwz56ci again — parent action still open); her fix was adding the product line, named `ha` (readability, P02 loose end). Running-total worked example traced 1, 3, 6 unaided. 'Add them up': after 6 min "times up and i din't work", all tests red; code pasted showed range(1, n+1) correct and `total = n + i` for `total = total + i`; compared side by side with the example, she replied "fixed and time is up" — verdict not seen. No handwritten code observed; fortnightly handwriting now two blocks overdue.
Fri18 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (whole week)09:15Maths — consolidate + fix errorsshort
10:30Move – 11:00
11:00English Language — exam technique11:40Lit quotation retrieval
12:00Lunch + outside – 13:00
13:00Computer Science — quiz + fix code13:45Spanish — vocab + short readingshort
14:15Weekly review with Dad

week 38·19 of 22 blocks so far·Computer Science 3.5h·English Language 2.4h·English Literature 3.4h·Mathematics 1.7h·Spanish 1.0h

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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 Science3.50 / 3.83
English Language2.42 / 1.42
English Literature3.42 / 3.08
Mathematics1.68 / 3.75
Spanish0.97 / 1.25

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

Aimline 4% · 5 behind · 11 touches, +1 step

Moved this week

P02 3.2.2 Variables, constants and assignment; why named constants are used evidence only SecureP03 3.2.2 Selection (IF / ELSE IF / ELSE) evidence only DevelopingP08 3.2.3 Arithmetic operators incl. real division, DIV and MOD evidence only SecureP04 3.2.2 Definite (count-controlled) iteration (FOR) evidence only Not startedP02 3.2.2 Variables, constants and assignment; why named constants are used evidence only SecureP04 3.2.2 Definite (count-controlled) iteration (FOR) evidence only Not started
Sat this week
None.
Practice
3 runs · 12 items · 41.7% right first time · best run 5.
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
2 opened, 2 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)

P04 running-total accumulator not yet produced on paper (exit ticket 2/4) — build it with her before re-sitting a fresh 4-line task.— Claude, Fri 18 Sep 21:10

GCSE English Language

AQA 8700 Untiered · 126 topics

3%+1GCSE English Language coverage over eight weeks, 0% to 3%

Aimline 4% · 3 behind · 10 touches, +3 steps

Moved this week

T5.2 Standard English, agreement, tense consistency evidence only Not startedW1.2 Descriptive: chosen non-sight senses evidence only DevelopingR2.2 Q2: feature/technique → effect (no spotting) evidence only Not startedR2.1 Q2: word/phrase → connotation → effect evidence only Not startedW3.2 Task focus addressed (AO5 cap) → Developing → Not startedW2.4 Narrative: perspective & tense held → Developing → Gap
Sat this week
P1 Q5 timed handwritten check — story opening, tutor-set 2026-format prompt (15 Sep 2026) — 21/40, 0 blanks (15 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
1 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)

Two of three Q2 chains on June 2023 Source A still unaided, plus the five-word spelling starter (friend/suddenly/happened/laughter/meanwhile) not run — session 32 opens on both.— Claude, Fri 18 Sep 21:10

GCSE English Literature

AQA 8702 Untiered · 205 topics

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

Aimline 4% · 18 behind · 15 touches, +1 step

Moved this week

P1.02 London (Blake): about/voice/form/methods/quotes/context → Developing → GapK6.1 spelling incl. names & terms evidence only GapK5 Writer as subject, not character evidence only DevelopingK3.2 structural choice → effect evidence only DevelopingP1.01 Ozymandias (Shelley): about/voice/form/methods/quotes/context evidence only DevelopingK4.2 compare speaker/voice → Gap → Developing
Sat this week
None.
Practice
4 runs · 33 items · 63.6% right first time · best run 8.
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
2 opened, 2 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 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)
open Two closing lines not written; spellings ghost, friend, decide, panics not run; Macbeth's fear paragraph not improved; ten-step plot re-ask after rebuild not run; Lady Macbeth's death not asked back cold; whether Act 1 Sc 3 was read at home not asked. (session 139, 0 days)

K1 what-how-why paragraph: one-angle-first-time seen once on London — needs to hold on the comparison paragraph before the loose end clears.— Claude, Fri 18 Sep 21:10

GCSE Mathematics

AQA 8300 Higher · 64 topics

30%+0GCSE Mathematics coverage over eight weeks, 22% to 30%

Aimline 28% · stalled · 14 touches, 0 steps

Moved this week

S4 Averages from data and frequency tables evidence only DevelopingG14-G16 Perimeter and area evidence only DevelopingA4 Simplify, expand, factorise evidence only SecureA17 Solving linear equations evidence only Exam-readyP1 Frequency trees, recording outcomes evidence only SecureR7-R8 Ratio, fractions and linear functions evidence only Secure
Sat this week
None.
Practice
1 run · 6 items · 66.7% right first time · best run 4.
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
2 opened, 1 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)

Estimated-mean working never written out (20.67 reached only after questioning) and the S4 practice set was cut by a time-stop for the second session running — both carry into next session.— Claude, Fri 18 Sep 21:10

GCSE Spanish

AQA 8692 Higher · 100 topics

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

Aimline 3% · nothing logged · 0 touches, 0 steps

Moved this week

No topic movement this week
Sat this week
None.
Practice
3 runs · 39 items · 94.9% right first time · best run 15.
Queue top
T01 Identity and relationships — divorciarse as a verb in a sentence still owed; whole Set 3 round not before 2 Nov.

T01 vocabulary: el familiar and el marido missed this week; Sets 2 and 3 of Unit 1 still untested.— Claude, Fri 18 Sep 21:10

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 18 September at 21:10.

Held

Computer Science held strongly: P03 retaught to an unaided 4/4 exit ticket (session 27), P04 iteration introduced from zero with three unaided Code Lab solves (session 29), and the teach-before-task-gate signal reached established — model the construct before setting the task, by default now. English Language's Tuesday timed piece was the strongest yet: zero comma splices, eight shift-based paragraphs and the planned cyclical ending all unaided. Lit held two clean Ozymandias starters. Maths kept A4 and A17 exam-ready. Spanish ran 94.9% first-time across three practice runs.

Slipped

Monday lost three blocks outright — new maths topic, CS Python, English Language creative writing — most of the day gone after the morning warm-up. Maths hours were the week's worst gap, 1.68 of 3.75 planned, from Monday's miss plus Friday's consolidate running 22 of 75 min. Six more ran short: both retrieval warm-ups (Tue 4/15, Thu 7/15), Tue Lit (28/60), Tue CS (6/60, wrong shape — practice stood in for taught content), Fri Spanish (13/30). CS hit that shape problem twice (Tue, Thu) — flag for term-planner if it recurs. P04 handwritten exit ticket not passed: accumulator not yet on paper.

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 maths in W39 (odd ISO week). CS opens on building the P04 accumulator on paper before re-sitting the exit ticket; English Language opens on the two unaided Q2 chains and the spelling starter left over from session 32; Maths opens with a fresh grouped estimated mean written out in full, then the practice set that got cut twice.

Rotation next

Lit essay

Written from the record at Fri 18 Sep 21:10 (3 missed · 0 excused).