Paradoxism

And MattMitchell - don't forget that the teaching staff are being told they have to get hard evidence for any 'levels' that they give to students no matter what system is in place. With some of the mastery curriculum developments coming out it can be hard to evidence exactly which skills are secure / developing etc. No wonder staff are keen to keep traditional assessment based systems

We are looking at the same for next year, and my current instinct is to have 1-9 from the start of KS3 and track it across all year groups. To replace levels with another grading system which then just gets us through KS3 seems to reinvent the levels wheel for no extra benefit. Am hoping that SIMS Progress Grids can be used to track the progress against objectives and then convert to grades. The main issue is that even the teaching staff don't know how they are to track progress for their new curriculums so whatever we do will be an organic development! Hoping that the government doesn't decide that water is old fashioned technology - then take it away without giving us any advice on what to replace it with!

Have you tried leaving the PowerPoint open for a long time to see if it EVER unlocks? Sounds like it may be a memory issue maybe with large images running out of resources? If it is locking because of memory then it may not see it as an error (as it is just taking time) and therefore not write anything to the logs?