Week 40 · Mon 28 Sep – Fri 2 Oct 2026

The week

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Draft
Fri 2 Oct 21:04
Friday routine

Study blocks

18 of 18

8 short · 22 extra

movement ticked 1 of 2 · review block not ticked

Hours

12.3 of 16.8

3 subjects under the timetable

Timed handwritten

None this week

last: 60 min (the block length) · 0 blanks · 22 September 2026

Topics moved

evidence only on 171 more

The register

Mon28 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 — placement paper 2 (theory)short
15:15Spanish — keep fresh (syllabus or Duolingo)
6 extra
Exam Skills — Technique read of the Literature placement (test #4, 2 h window, 32 marks). Started 11:28, closed by Paige after 26 min — 94 of 120 min unused. Order: Q2 (recall) saved first, then Q1 (unseen). Q1 21 min of 30 guide, 2/24; Q2 4 min of 10 guide, 2/8. 0 blanks, nothing flagged. Marks lost to technique rather than knowledge: Q1 — one sentence for a 24-mark question (tariff not matched, extended answer never reached a band) when she had shown she understood the poem; Q2 — quotations given without the explanation the question asked for twice, and a theme given where a form/structure fact was asked. Time hog: none in the usual sense — Q1 took under its guide and scored under half, so the problem is stopping, not stalling. No checking time used: closed with 78% of the window unused and a one-sentence 24-marker on the page.
Computer Science — Placement paper 2 (theory), test #2, sat Mon 28 Sep 12:52, 28 of 120 min, closed by her. 7/53 (13%), attempt #10. 17 of 22 questions typed 'skip' as the placement instructions allowed; all 17 sit on untaught content in strands D, S, N, C and Q. Q3 (binary to decimal) and Q6 (binary addition) each held focus for 7 min before the skip — she tried both. Attempted and scored: hardware/software definitions 2/2 (S01); ASCII D → 68, code 99 → c 2/2 (D07); PAN/LAN/WAN 1/3 with LAN and WAN swapped (N02); OS functions 0/2 — 'ram and memory', a component not a function (S07); the 6-mark discuss on facial recognition at the school gate 2/6, Level 1 — one ethical point ('might scare the students') and one privacy point with a consequence ('if someone hacks the software they would know where the students walk'), no parents or school, no benefit weighed, no conclusion, 3 min on a 9-min guide (E01). Diagnostic result: strands D, S, N, C, Q are notstarted in practice; the extended-response question was attempted, which is the behaviour being watched. No status changes.
Exam Skills — Technique read of the CS paper 2 placement (test #2, 2 h window, 53 marks, guide 90 min). Started 12:52 Mon 28 Sep, closed by Paige after 28 min — 92 of 120 min unused. Order: Q1, Q4, Q7, Q22 (the six-marker, fourth, against the instruction to do it last), then Q2, Q3, Q5, Q6, Q8–Q11, Q16–Q21, Q12–Q15. No flags. 17 'skip' entries as the placement allowed, all on untaught content, so not counted as avoidance; 0 typed blanks. Time: Q3 and Q6 (binary) 7 min each before skipping — effort on untaught content, not a time hog since neither had a guide she could meet. The six-marker: 3 min against a 9-min guide, two sentences, one of three named groups, no verdict — Level 1, 2/6; this is the same shape as yesterday's Literature one-sentence 24-marker and is the technique target: the extended answer is attempted but stops at the first idea. Marks lost to technique rather than knowledge: Q22 — 2 further marks were available from the school's side and a verdict with content she had (she named the hack risk); Q11 — 'ram and memory' answered the component not the function, a command-word loss on a topic she partly had.
Tue29 Sep
09:00Retrieval warm-up (Mon's work)09:15Maths — interleaved practiceshort
10:30Move – 11:00
11:00English Literature — second textshort
12:00Lunch + outside – 13:00
13:00Computer Science — binary (from the placement)
15:00Spanish — keep fresh (syllabus or Duolingo)
Wed30 Sep
09:00Retrieval quiz — Maths, Lit, CSshort
09:35Quick move – 09:45
09:45Spanish — vocab + listening
10:00External class – 14:00
14:30English Language — placement: Paper 1 Section Ashort
5 extra
English Language — Placement paper (test #3, typed, reading half of the fiction paper) sat and marked: 9/40, 0 blank of 4, closed by her at 32 of 120 min (attempt #11). List question 4/4 — four distinct points from the right lines. Language question 2/8, Level 1: one quotation from inside the lines, a literal comment and personification described in her own words with no effect; the word → suggests → reader chain did not appear. Structure question 2/8, Level 1: opening focus and a change of focus named, generic 'read on' effect, stayed on structure, ending not mentioned. 'Do you agree' question 1/20, Level 1: one sentence taking a view, no quotation — this question shape has never been taught. Seven spelling slips across four short typed answers. No teaching ran; the hyena structure paragraph from session 47 is still open.
Exam Skills — Technique read of test #3 (English Language placement, fiction reading, 40 marks, typed): handed in by her at 32 of 120 minutes, 0 blank of 4, no flags, answered in paper order with no return recorded. Time ran inverse to marks: 9 min on the 4-mark list (guide 5), 16 min on the 8-mark language question (guide 10), 3 min on the 8-mark structure question (guide 10), 2 min on the 20-mark evaluation (guide 20) — 25 of 30 focused minutes on 12 marks, 5 minutes on 28. The 20-marker is one sentence and the structure answer three. Both the paper's instructions (half the marks are on the last question) and the chat opener (go back to the biggest question and add a paragraph before handing in) were general; neither changed the sitting. Marks lost to technique rather than knowledge are mainly on the structure question and the length of the last answer; the evaluation question's content is untaught.
Thu1 Oct
09:00Retrieval warm-up (mixed)09:15Deep block — Maths / CS alternating
10:20Move – 10:45
10:45English Literature — Macbeth: how to read it
11:45Group – 15:20
2 extra
English Literature — CORRECTION (same day): this session ran 11:55-12:07, about 12 minutes, not 20 - the tutor misjudged the time and logged early; the duration field overstates by about 8 minutes. She pointed this out and carried on; the continuation is logged as its own session. Extra time at her own request, no block (the timetable shows group): the start of Act 1 Scene 3 was read alone in one 13-line chunk and the foul/fair echo was reached with support. Act versus scene asked first: correct at once. With a one-line setup and a countable question she read from Macbeth's entrance to the third 'All hail' by herself and gave all three titles (Glamis, Cawdor, king hereafter), 3/3. Recalled from this morning that Duncan has already given him Cawdor, 1/1; dramatic irony then named by the tutor (told, not asked back). Macbeth's first line copied exact (lower-case i). Shared words with the witches' Scene 1 line found, 1/1. Open effect question on why Shakespeare gives him the witches' words: no answer offered at first; a two-way choice (connected or separate) answered at once; then a frame-completed sentence with Shakespeare as subject and the audience's response, spelled 'thair connected'. One line paraphrased correctly with the book's side notes only ('who shall be king after this'). Book closed, one sentence: the witches tell him he is going to be king - correct. 10 items set, 10 attempted, 0 final blanks, 1 initial non-answer. The rest of Scene 3 (the witches' opening, Banquo's prophecies, Ross's news, Macbeth's reaction) was unread at this point; session 62's open item stands for that. No two-line close.
English Literature — Continuation of the extra Macbeth work at her request, 12:07-12:15 (8 minutes), no block. No duration is entered on this record on purpose: session 63's 20-minute field already equals the true total for 11:55-12:15, so the day's hours stay right. Act 1 Scene 3 carried on: with a one-line setup she read alone from Banquo's 'Good sir, why do you start' to 'Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!' (about 18 lines) and gave the prophecy to Banquo correctly (father to a king but not one himself; 'farther', lower-case 'banquo'). Plot recall from the morning, about 80 minutes on: Macbeth murders Banquo, 1/1; the link between the prophecy and the murder was then made by the tutor. Told, not read: the witches vanish and the lords bring the Cawdor news. On Banquo's 'devil' line: who is meant and what has come true, 2/2; then, with no frame, a full because-sentence that Banquo does not trust the witches, using the word 'devil' as evidence. Scene 3 quote chosen and copied by her: 'What can the devil speak true?' (comma after 'What' dropped). 6 items set, 6 attempted, 0 blank. Two-line close written. She kept her own count of the time and was right each time; the tutor was not. Unread in Scene 3: the witches' opening, the lords' speeches, Macbeth's asides and the end of the scene. Scene 2 still not read whole.
Fri2 Oct
09:00Retrieval warm-up (whole week)short09:15Maths — consolidate + fix errors
10:30Move – 11:00
11:00English Language — placement: Paper 2 Section Ashort
13:00Lunch + outside – 13:45
13:45Computer Science — placement mop-up
14:15Weekly review with Dad
9 extra
English Language — Placement paper 2 (test #5, typed, non-fiction reading: a 2020s column and an 1868 Cornish memoir on walking to school) sat and marked: 7/40, 0 blank of 4, closed by her at 26 of 120 min (attempt #12). True-statements question 4/4. Summary question 3/8, Level 2 bottom: four paired details from both texts joined by 'but', two emerging inferences, no 'which shows', one factual slip (said Source B gives no age), 19 min. Language question (12) 0: five words, no quotation, 2 min. Comparing-viewpoints question (16) 0: one sentence restating the question, 2 min — this shape has never been taught. Seven spelling slips in about 75 typed words (lollypop, whatching, farwell, attaked, diffrent, atatoods, then for than). No teaching ran; the hyena structure paragraph from session 47 is still open.
English Language — Afternoon warm-up plus resit (test #6, attempt #13). The parent reported that this morning's two zeros came from not understanding what the questions asked, and had talked it through with her. Warm-up 15:47–16:20, typed, on two short storm passages written for the purpose: she put the language question into her own words correctly first time ('the language they write to use and why I think they used it'); asked only for one quotation, she gave quotation, what it suggests and what the reader feels with no mention of steps. The comparing question she read as 'two quotes, compare the quotes' — the word 'attitudes' was missing; after it was explained she needed three prompts (one writer only; then her language answer again; then both attitudes given to one writer) before writing, unaided, one sentence with a quotation from each writer and 'but'. Saying the paper target back failed three times (never included 'quotation'). Resit at 18:40 on this morning's sources: language question 2/12 (one quotation, literal comment, 3 min), comparing question 5/16 (a quotation from each source, some different ideas, parent's versus child's perspective named, 16 min); 7/28 against 0/28. Hyena paragraph from session 47 still open. Her two closing lines, written after the marks: 'Today I took my second English language placement test. Next we're going to look at what we are doing.'

week 40·19 of 19 blocks so far·Computer Science 3.3h·English Language 0.6h·English Literature 3.4h·Exam Skills 2.2h·Mathematics 2.4h·Spanish 0.5h

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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 Science3.28 / 2.83
English Language0.62 / 0.00
English Literature3.35 / 3.00
Exam Skills2.18 / 6.25
Mathematics2.37 / 3.75
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%

stalled · 25 touches, 0 steps

Moved this week

A5 Never blank: a sensible attempt on every question evidence only Not startedA3 Extended answers: hitting the level descriptors evidence only Not startedR2 Mark allocation sets the length of the answer evidence only Not startedT4 Checking time at the end evidence only Not startedT2 Pacing by marks per minute evidence only Not startedA5 Never blank: a sensible attempt on every question evidence only Not started
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

6%+3GCSE Computer Science coverage over eight weeks, 0% to 6%

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

Moved this week

D02 3.3.2 Binary ↔ decimal conversion (0–255) evidence only DevelopingD03 3.3.2 Binary ↔ hex and decimal ↔ hex conversion (0–255 / FF) evidence only DevelopingD01 3.3.1 Number bases: decimal, binary, hexadecimal; why hex is used evidence only GapP05 3.2.2 Indefinite iteration with condition at start (WHILE) or end (REPEAT…UNTIL, DO…WHILE) evidence only DevelopingD05 3.3.4 Binary addition (up to three 8-bit numbers) evidence only DevelopingD02 3.3.2 Binary ↔ decimal conversion (0–255) evidence only Developing
Sat this week
Placement — Computer Science paper 2 (theory) — GCSE Computer Science section — 7/53, 0 blanks (28 September 2026).
Practice
3 runs · 13 items · 76.9% 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
3 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)

No-checklist handwritten program retest; hex to decimal (9C came out 154) and the why-hex 2-mark answer, storage misconception first.— Claude, Fri 2 Oct 21:04

GCSE English Language

AQA 8700 Untiered · 126 topics

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

Moved this week

R2.1 Q2: word/phrase → connotation → effect evidence only DevelopingV5.1 19th-c non-fiction: vocabulary & long sentences evidence only Not startedV4.4 Q4: tone/form/audience/purpose as methods evidence only Not startedV4.3 Q4: both sources every paragraph, connectives evidence only Not startedV4.2 Q4: perspectives first, then methods evidence only Not startedV4.1 Q4: each writer's viewpoint in one sentence evidence only Not started
Sat this week
Placement — English Language Paper 1 Section A — GCSE English Language section — 9/40, 0 blanks (30 September 2026). Placement — English Language Paper 2 Section A — GCSE English Language section — 7/40, 0 blanks (2 October 2026). Resit — English Language Paper 2, Q3 and Q4 — GCSE English Language section — 7/28, 0 blanks (2 October 2026).
Practice
1 run · 1 items · 100% 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
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)

Quotation in every answer worth over 4 marks on the next paper; the quotation-suggests-reader chain on papers, not only in lessons; hyena structure paragraph still open.— Claude, Fri 2 Oct 21:04

GCSE English Literature

AQA 8702 Untiered · 205 topics

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

Aimline 8% · 39 behind · 22 touches, +2 steps

Moved this week

K6.1 spelling incl. names & terms evidence only GapS4.4 Macbeth: characterisation methods (speech/action/foil/direction) → Not started → GapS1.2 Macbeth: plot in 10–12 beats from memory evidence only GapS1.1 Macbeth: whole text read/heard once evidence only DevelopingK6.1 spelling incl. names & terms evidence only GapK3.2 structural choice → effect evidence only Developing
Sat this week
Placement — English Literature (unseen poem + recall) — GCSE English Literature section — 4/32, 0 blanks (28 September 2026).
Practice
4 runs · 24 items · 62.5% right first time · best run 6.
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, 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)

Read the rest of Macbeth Act 1 Scene 3 and Scene 2 whole; Tuesday's Lit essay is the timed piece and the paragraph still has not appeared unaided under a timer.— Claude, Fri 2 Oct 21:04

GCSE Mathematics

AQA 8300 Higher · 64 topics

31%+0GCSE Mathematics coverage over eight weeks, 22% to 31%

Aimline 30% · stalled · 14 touches, 0 steps

Moved this week

N10 Fractions and decimals, recurring decimals evidence only DevelopingR7-R8 Ratio, fractions and linear functions evidence only SecureS4 Averages from data and frequency tables evidence only SecureP4-P5 Probabilities sum to 1; sample size evidence only SecureG3 Angles: parallel lines and polygons evidence only DevelopingN15 Error intervals and bounds evidence only Secure
Sat this week
None.
Practice
1 run · 3 items · 33.3% right first time · best run 1.
Queue top
R11 Compound units: speed, density, pressure — 8 weeks since last touched
Unfinished
3 opened, 3 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)

Second uncued recurring-decimal item with 'x = 54/99' on its own line; 'vertically opposite' written correctly cold; protect the practice set from the time stop.— Claude, Fri 2 Oct 21:04

GCSE Spanish

AQA 8692 Higher · 100 topics

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

Aimline 6% · nothing logged · 0 touches, 0 steps

Moved this week

No topic movement this week
Sat this week
None.
Practice
2 runs · 23 items · 82.6% right first time · best run 10.
Queue top
T01 Identity and relationships — divorciarse as a verb in a sentence still owed; whole Set 3 round not before 2 Nov.

Tuesday's optional block went unticked; first-unit vocabulary Sets 2 and 3 untested, and el familiar / el marido missed.— Claude, Fri 2 Oct 21:04

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 2 October at 21:04.

Held

Maths held: angle values right unaided all week, the two-step reason chain written without a prompt (first reason misnamed 'horizontally opposite'), and the recurring-decimal show-that chain complete uncued on Friday. CS: binary opened from nothing Tuesday and held cold Wednesday; hex converted by hand with working on Friday. Lit: Macbeth opened, Act 1 Scene 3 read alone in chunks, prophecy linked to the murder from memory. No blanks on any placement paper. The Friday English Language resit went from 0 to 7 of 28 once a quotation was in each answer.

Slipped

Every placement paper was handed in far inside its window, and extended answers stopped at the first idea: one sentence on the 24-mark Lit question, two on the CS six-marker, one on the Lang 20-marker. Minutes ran inverse to marks, so the biggest question got least. Maths practice sets were cut by a time stop again and several blocks ended well under length. The why-hex answer is still below the bar and the storage misconception returned twice. Lang language and comparing questions still sit at Level 1 or zero on papers. Time-cut blocks recur: term-planner could re-cut them.

Next week

Next Tuesday's timed piece is the Lit essay (rotation after Lang Q5; no timed handwritten piece ran this week, the placement papers took the slot). Thursday's deep block falls to maths (odd week). Start with the unread rest of Macbeth Act 1 Scene 3 and Scene 2 whole; the no-checklist CS handwritten program retest is still queued; maths needs a second uncued recurring-decimal item and 'vertically opposite' cold. Set a countable minutes-and-quotations target before each paper starts.

Rotation next

Lit essay (Tue 6 Oct)

Written from the record at Fri 2 Oct 21:04 (0 missed · 0 excused).