Beginner's guide - how to find fields to add to a (MS Word) report

[iscott]

Our data manager is swamped, was hoping there was a 'beginner's guide' or similar I could follow for myself to build a report to find out how to add fields to an MS Word doc (school wants us to create 'context sheets' for each class - class name, number of males/females, names of HPA high prior attainers, names of MPA medium prior attainers and names of LPA, names of SEN, names of EAL, mean CAT scores, names of students with <12 yrs reading age etc in each class).

Currently manually transferring across from marksheet to MS Word doc 'template' - it's a pain.

Here's hoping... 

[bobsmith]

Are we talking SIMS?

 

I learnt by exploring the reporting tree - it's got some really weird oddities - items stored where you wouldn't expect to find them.

[iscott]

Yup - SIMS

 

Was hoping there was an easy way to identify e.g. a field such as SEN on a marksheet which linked back to an item on the reporting tree... any/all ideas much appreciated!