Do you have form groups that don't contain the year name - eg 7G

[MkII]

As the title says...

 

Go4Schools labels pupils with a year group... so: Joe Bloggs, Year 7 ...for example

 

We find this annoying when searching. Much better we thought to have the form group instead of the year group, so that the search returned: Joe Blogs, 7G

 

The only reason I can see that they wouldn't do this is because some schools don't use the year group as part of the form name as we do.

 

So... does your school use a year marker for form names??

 

Thanks

[vikpaw]

Yes, always, in various schools. Year group is often not needed in reports as the forms are just a subset.

[DalekSec]

We use the year they started so new students this year are 16JBloggs

[vikpaw]

If you didn't a K12 could end up with upwards of 60 unique names to remember which year they are in.

[elsiegee40]

I've been in one primary that does and one that doesn't. All the secondaries I have associations with do.

[clareq]

We have vertical form groups - so a single form has students from Y7 to Y11.

[MkII]

We have vertical form groups - so a single form has students from Y7 to Y11.

 

Damn!

 

Come to think of it in my final years my school had the same. In my defense it was a very long time ago!!!

[Esteban_Child_of_the_Sun]

Among the schools I support we have a whole mix, some with multiple years in 1 reg group, some with reg group named after planets that move up with the students, some where they use the staff code for the registration group name and some where they have things like 7Purple, 8Purple, etc.

[vikpaw]

We have vertical form groups - so a single form has students from Y7 to Y11.

 

So how many do you have and what sort of names do they get @clareq

[clareq]

We are an Outwood Academy, so we follow their standard naming convention - the houses are continents, and the forms are countries - 40 in all.

[vikpaw]

Interesting, so I guess it's not so hard to remember with that kind of convention.

[MkII]

@clareq so how do the year groups get timetabled? Sets I guess?

 

I can't remember what my final year group was called, only our house group name which remained unchanged.

 

I suppose that even if your form groups don't denote year groups some kind of demarkation has to??

[clareq]

I don't do the timetabling, but sets are used. Students are in year groups for lessons, and listed in SIMS with Year groups.