Observations
Writing down what you saw, on the day you saw it — the evidence a term remark is built from.
One or two sentences about something a child actually did, typed on the day it happened. At the end of term you pick three of these and write two sentences — you are not writing the remark twice.
What makes a useful one
Something you saw, specific enough that a parent reading it would recognise their child. "She explained that the Queen moves diagonally too, and showed a friend on the board" is an observation. "Good work today" is not, and the screen will not accept it — there is a twenty-character floor, which is a floor and not a quality bar.
It does not have to be a verdict
Just noting is the default and is meant to be. Most of what you see in a day is neither a strength nor something to work on, and a screen that made you decide would get filled in with decisions you did not mean. Mark it a strength or to work on when it genuinely is one — those are the two the term remark can draw on directly.
Anyone who teaches the child can add one
If you teach a child for one lesson a day, what you see in that lesson is worth recording, and it appears in their class teacher's pool. You do not need to be the class teacher; you do need to teach them.
The date is the day it happened
It defaults to today. Change it with the date picker if you are catching up on yesterday —
there is no way to type a date, deliberately. A date typed as 3/6 means two different days to two
different people, and a register that cannot be sorted cannot answer "does this child have two
observations this term", which is the one question it exists for.
Correcting one
You can edit or remove your own, up until something cites it. Once an observation is bound as evidence to a strength, a growth area or a published remark, it is fixed — editing it then would quietly change what somebody else has already signed off. Record a new one instead.
Who has nothing
The list on the left shows how much is written about each child this term. Three weeks before the deadline, the children with an empty meter are the ones to go looking for — usually the quiet ones, which is the point.
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