Week 39 · Mon 21 – Fri 25 Sep 2026

The week

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Draft
Fri 25 Sep 21:11
Friday routine

Study blocks

23 of 23

7 short · 15 extra

movement ticked 1 of 2 · review block not ticked

Hours

18.7 of 15.1

Mathematics, 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 76 more

The register

Mon21 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (mixed)09:15Maths — new topicshort
10:30Move — walk, bike or dance – 11:00
11:00English Literature — set text
12:00Lunch + outside – 13:00
13:00Computer Science — Pythonshort14:15English Language — creative writing
15:00Spanish — keep fresh (syllabus or Duolingo)
Tue22 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (Mon's work)short09:15Maths — 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
15:00Spanish — keep fresh (syllabus or Duolingo)
2 extra
English Language — Shape C — third timed handwritten Q5 on the record (attempt 7): description of a drained, abandoned pool on an unseen tutor-set 2026-format prompt, 5 plan / 30 write / 5 check, pencil, photographed, ~155 words (~5 wpm), 0 blank, marked 21/40 (AO5 12/24 L2 upper; AO6 9/16 L3 lower) — same total as 8 and 15 Sep, composed differently. Pre-task binary check (description vs story) 1/1. Plan on paper inside 5 min with all five lines; structure line held a setting ('cracked swimming pool') again and was fixed to 'zoom: pool → changing rooms' after a two-option prompt. Piece: senses chosen not listed (chlorine and dust, temperature shift, shoes on tiles, radio crackle), zoom executed, planned last line delivered; but written as ONE unbroken block — the paragraph-at-every-shift skill secured on 15 Sep vanished under the clock — and drifted from description into plot (spider, scream). AO6: zero comma splices for the second timed piece running; commas after fronted clauses accurate; spelling far better (clorin only); lowercase 'all' after a full stop, 'a empty', 'caused'/'came' tense slips. Two-target check (splices, capital after comma): she replied '0' — one number for two targets; verified 0 and 0, so catching was untested. Typed copy afterwards silently corrected 'a empty', 'came' and 'all'. 'chlorine' given with an aid (chlor- as in chloroform) and typed correctly. Her two lines: "I did times handwriting practice. What's next is computer science."
Wed23 Sep
09:00Retrieval quiz — Maths, Lit, CSshort
09:35Quick move – 09:45
09:45Spanish — vocab + listening
10:00External class – 14:00
14:30English Language — reading, real sources
2 extra
Thu24 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (mixed)short09:15Deep block — Maths / CS alternatingshort
10:20Move – 10:45
10:45English Literature — poetry / essay planning11:30Spanish — vocab review
11:45Group – 15:20
4 extra
Computer Science — While loops opened from zero and taken to developing: worked example → predictions → production check → Code Lab 'Until you say stop' solved in 2 runs → handwritten exit ticket 3/4. Extra session (no CS block today), elapsed ~12:30–14:35 incl. a movement break of unknown length. Starter 3/3 unaided, 0 blank: running-total trace "1, 3, 6"; temp > 25 at 25 → "fine"; range[1, 6] no colon → "the brackets are wrong and it needs a colon". Worked example (ask until "stop"): line-1 say-back produced code ("for word = stop / print("finished")"), narrowed → "The user types a word."; line 2 → "if it is not equal to, stop. Go again", binary checks cat→in, stop→"no" correct; loop without update predicted "1", guided to "It would get stuck in a loop because a word is still holding cat"; produced word = input() unprompted; print after loop correct. Predictions 2/2 (3 times; "done" for a zero-run loop). Production check: password != "banana" 1/1. Code Lab p05-stop: plan line given first; solved in 2 runs/330s, run 1 missing the second input(), found unaided (practice #46). Exit ticket (bigger than 100, handwritten, 3-item checklist given): key = input () / While key < 100 : / Key = input / print("Done") — structure right, 3/4 indicative; boundary < 100, no int(), While/Key capitalised, input missing (); fix asked → "make it 101". Gate note: the exit ticket needed int() (P17, still a gap) — a planning error, not held against her. P02 third mixed-case handwritten program despite checklist → demoted.
Fri25 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (whole week)short09:15Maths — consolidate + fix errors
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 reading
14:15Weekly review with Dad
3 extra
Sun27 Sep
4 extra
Computer Science — Placement paper 1 (Python), test #1, sat Sun 27 Sep 12:26, 50 of 120 min, closed by her. 19/52 (37%), attempt #9. 22 questions, 0 typed blanks; Q12 part 2 'i don't know' and Q20 part 2 unanswered. Held cold on taught material: 17 // 5 and 17 % 5 → 3, 2 (P08 2/2); "4"+"5" → 45 and int() → 9 (P17 2/2, the 25 Sep misconception did not recur); ord/chr (P16 2/2); syntax vs logic error with line numbers (P28 2/2); bubble first pass 1,4,2,5 (A13 2/3); password loop while password != open / input inside / Welcome after (P05 3/3, quotes and colon missing); cinema bands with correct boundaries but printed instead of stored in price and re-read age (P03 2/3); trace table rows (3,3) (0,4) right, no starting row, output -1 from an extra pass (A07 2/4). Lost on untaught content: data types (P01 0/3: list/list/probability), Boolean combination (P10 0/3: evaluated halves, never combined), 3-argument range (P04 0/2), list/2-D/string ops (P11 0/3, P12 0/2, P15 0/3), random (P18 0/1), subroutines (P19 0/4), binary search done as linear (A10 0/2), merge sort shape only (A12 1/2), decomposition/abstraction (A02, A03 0/2). Test data P27 0/3: all three values correctly classed, no expected behaviour given though the scheme required both — an instruction loss. No status changes: placement marking establishes facts only.
Exam Skills — Technique read of the CS paper 1 placement (test #1, 2 h window, 52 marks, guide 90 min). Started 12:26 Sun 27 Sep, closed by Paige after 50 min — 70 of 120 min unused, 40 min under the 90-min guide. Order: Q1, Q7, Q8, Q10, Q14, Q16, Q17, Q6, Q15, Q19, Q2, Q12, Q13, Q18, Q20, Q21, Q22, Q4, Q5, Q11, Q3, Q9 — jumped around the paper, no flags. 0 typed blanks; Q12(2) 'i don't know', Q20(2) empty. Marks lost to technique rather than knowledge: Q18 0/3 — three correct test-data values with no 'what the program should do', a two-part instruction half answered; Q9 mark 3 — correct logic printed instead of stored in the named variable, and a premise ('age already holds a number') ignored; Q11 last mark — trace continued one pass after the condition was false. Time hog: none — Q9 ran 6 min on a 4-min guide and scored 2/3; every other question at or under its guide. No checking time: closed with 58% of the window unused and two sub-parts empty.

week 39·24 of 24 blocks so far·Computer Science 4.5h·English Language 4.4h·English Literature 3.7h·Exam Skills 0.8h·Mathematics 3.8h·Spanish 1.5h

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Missed

Nothing was missed this week.

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 Science4.52 / 2.75
English Language4.38 / 2.42
English Literature3.65 / 3.08
Exam Skills0.83 / 0.00
Mathematics3.78 / 4.83
Spanish1.50 / 2.00

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

3%+1GCSE Computer Science coverage over eight weeks, 0% to 3%

Aimline 6% · 8 behind · 35 touches, +3 steps

Moved this week

P02 3.2.2 Variables, constants and assignment; why named constants are used evidence only SecureP02 3.2.2 Variables, constants and assignment; why named constants are used → Developing → SecureP04 3.2.2 Definite (count-controlled) iteration (FOR) → Gap → DevelopingP03 3.2.2 Selection (IF / ELSE IF / ELSE) evidence only DevelopingP02 3.2.2 Variables, constants and assignment; why named constants are used evidence only DevelopingP17 3.2.8 String ↔ integer/real conversion → Gap → Developing
Sat this week
Placement — Computer Science paper 1 (Python) — GCSE Computer Science section — 19/52, 0 blanks (27 September 2026).
Practice
4 runs · 10 items · 90% right first time · best run 3.
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, 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)

P02 handwritten case/brackets were clean for the first time under a read-aloud checklist — retest with no checklist next.— Claude, Fri 25 Sep 21:11

GCSE English Language

AQA 8700 Untiered · 126 topics

4%+1GCSE English Language coverage over eight weeks, 0% to 4%

Aimline 5% · 5 behind · 19 touches, +4 steps

Moved this week

W3.2 Task focus addressed (AO5 cap) → Not started → DevelopingR2.1 Q2: word/phrase → connotation → effect → Not started → DevelopingR3.1 Q3: name one structural effect → Gap → DevelopingR3.1 Q3: name one structural effect → Developing → GapT5.2 Standard English, agreement, tense consistency evidence only Not startedR2.1 Q2: word/phrase → connotation → effect evidence only Not started
Sat this week
8700/1 Q5 description — abandoned pool (tutor-set 2026-format prompt, timed, handwritten) — 21/40, 0 blanks (22 September 2026).
Practice
1 run · 2 items · 50% right first time · best run 1.
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, 1 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)

Finish session 47's structure paragraph: open with the moment (not the quote) and write the two closing lines left undone.— Claude, Fri 25 Sep 21:11

GCSE English Literature

AQA 8702 Untiered · 205 topics

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

Aimline 6% · 29 behind · 17 touches, +1 step

Moved this week

K5 Writer as subject, not character evidence only DevelopingK3.2 structural choice → effect evidence only DevelopingK1 What–how–why paragraph evidence only DevelopingK6.1 spelling incl. names & terms evidence only GapK4.2 compare speaker/voice evidence only DevelopingP1.02 London (Blake): about/voice/form/methods/quotes/context → Gap → Developing
Sat this week
None.
Practice
6 runs · 28 items · 57.1% right first time · best run 9.
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 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 paragraph: rewrite compliance dropped to 2/4 faults fixed from an itemised list, vs 4/5 with a general steer on 17 Sep — watch which approach she gets next.— Claude, Fri 25 Sep 21:11

GCSE Mathematics

AQA 8300 Higher · 64 topics

31%+1GCSE Mathematics coverage over eight weeks, 22% to 31%

Aimline 29% · 4 ahead · 27 touches, +2 steps

Moved this week

S4 Averages from data and frequency tables evidence only SecureA17 Solving linear equations evidence only Exam-readyG14-G16 Perimeter and area evidence only DevelopingS4 Averages from data and frequency tables evidence only SecureN10 Fractions and decimals, recurring decimals evidence only DevelopingG3 Angles: parallel lines and polygons → Gap → Developing
Sat this week
None.
Practice
4 runs · 9 items · 100% right first time · best run 4.
Queue top
R11 Compound units: speed, density, pressure — 8 weeks since last touched
Unfinished
4 opened, 4 closed, 1 open now.
open Rearrangement item with the subject required on the final line ('write r = on your last line') not run; the block ended at the density item. (session 133, 10 days)

Finish Thu's mixed practice set (stopped at Q2, Q3-Q6 unset) and run the parallel-lines exit ticket; N10's 100x=/99x= lines still don't appear unprompted.— Claude, Fri 25 Sep 21:11

GCSE Spanish

AQA 8692 Higher · 100 topics

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

Aimline 5% · nothing logged · 0 touches, 0 steps

Moved this week

No topic movement this week
Sat this week
None.
Practice
4 runs · 35 items · 88.6% right first time · best run 11.
Queue top
T01 Identity and relationships — divorciarse as a verb in a sentence still owed; whole Set 3 round not before 2 Nov.

T01: el familiar and el marido missed; Sets 2 and 3 of Unit 1 vocabulary still not tested.— Claude, Fri 25 Sep 21:11

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 25 September at 21:11.

Held

All 23 study blocks were done this week, 0 outright misses, 11 extras. CS moved P17 (int conversion) and P05 (while loops) gap to developing on solid session-45 evidence, and the P04 accumulator finally came out unprompted after three attempts since 18 Sep. Maths held A17 exam-ready twice more; G3 (parallel lines) was taught from scratch, 3/3 guided examples correct. English Language's T1.1 (no comma splices) promoted developing to secure. Three signals reached established: lit's narrow-question-beats-open-question, and CS's say-back-one-line-at-a-time and trace-correct-production-fails.

Slipped

7 of 23 study blocks ran short: every retrieval warm-up bar Monday's landed under half its time (3-6 min against 15), and Monday's new-topic maths block (32/75) and Thursday's Maths/CS deep block (30/65) were both cut well short. CS's P05 had to be reverted from a two-level jump the audit doesn't allow, the same pattern already flagged on P04 and P17 this month. Maths (3.78/4.83 hrs) and Spanish (1.50/2.00 hrs) are both under plan as a result. Lang's structure-paragraph work (R3.1) is stuck for a second time: frames off, level drops near L2, opening still on the quote not the moment.

Next week

Next week opens on maths' mixed practice set (stopped at Q2) and the parallel-lines exit ticket that never ran, plus a second unprompted while-loop production check for CS. Tuesday's timed block is the Lit essay (rotation: Lang Q5 done 22 Sep, then Lit essay, Maths section, CS program). Thursday's deep block falls to computer science this time (even ISO week).

Rotation next

Lit essay (English Literature)

Written from the record at Fri 25 Sep 21:11 (0 missed · 0 excused). Since then: Sun 00:00 Placement — Computer Science paper 1 (Python) logged outside the timetable; Sun 00:00 Placement paper 1 (Python), test #1, sat Sun 27 Sep 12:26, 50 of 120 min, closed by her. 19/52 (37%), attempt #9. 22 questions, 0 typed blanks; Q12 part 2 'i don't know' and Q20 part 2 unanswered. Held cold on taught material: 17 // 5 and 17 % 5 → 3, 2 (P08 2/2); "4"+"5" → 45 and int() → 9 (P17 2/2, the 25 Sep misconception did not recur); ord/chr (P16 2/2); syntax vs logic error with line numbers (P28 2/2); bubble first pass 1,4,2,5 (A13 2/3); password loop while password != open / input inside / Welcome after (P05 3/3, quotes and colon missing); cinema bands with correct boundaries but printed instead of stored in price and re-read age (P03 2/3); trace table rows (3,3) (0,4) right, no starting row, output -1 from an extra pass (A07 2/4). Lost on untaught content: data types (P01 0/3: list/list/probability), Boolean combination (P10 0/3: evaluated halves, never combined), 3-argument range (P04 0/2), list/2-D/string ops (P11 0/3, P12 0/2, P15 0/3), random (P18 0/1), subroutines (P19 0/4), binary search done as linear (A10 0/2), merge sort shape only (A12 1/2), decomposition/abstraction (A02, A03 0/2). Test data P27 0/3: all three values correctly classed, no expected behaviour given though the scheme required both — an instruction loss. No status changes: placement marking establishes facts only. logged outside the timetable; Sun 00:00 Technique read of the CS paper 1 placement (test #1, 2 h window, 52 marks, guide 90 min). Started 12:26 Sun 27 Sep, closed by Paige after 50 min — 70 of 120 min unused, 40 min under the 90-min guide. Order: Q1, Q7, Q8, Q10, Q14, Q16, Q17, Q6, Q15, Q19, Q2, Q12, Q13, Q18, Q20, Q21, Q22, Q4, Q5, Q11, Q3, Q9 — jumped around the paper, no flags. 0 typed blanks; Q12(2) 'i don't know', Q20(2) empty. Marks lost to technique rather than knowledge: Q18 0/3 — three correct test-data values with no 'what the program should do', a two-part instruction half answered; Q9 mark 3 — correct logic printed instead of stored in the named variable, and a premise ('age already holds a number') ignored; Q11 last mark — trace continued one pass after the condition was false. Time hog: none — Q9 ran 6 min on a 4-min guide and scored 2/3; every other question at or under its guide. No checking time: closed with 58% of the window unused and two sub-parts empty. logged outside the timetable; and 1 more changes.