Notes on reading an examination series, attendance averages that hide a winter, and how an office can send an extract without a second project.
A mathematics page can sag because a large year moved through, because entry patterns changed, or because eleven candidates are being asked to carry a staffing debate. The department session is for telling those apart.
Six pages beat twenty if the agenda only names the leaving cohort, winter attendance, and one subject. The rest can wait for the departmental meeting.
Unified National Examination outcomes for a leaving cohort are a real picture. They are not a verdict on every class still sitting in year 9.
A year-long percentage present can look steady while January on one bus route is a different school. Split the winter. Name the year group.
Send the files you already export for the examination office and the register. Do not rebuild a workbook to impress the analyst. We will say if a column is unreadable.
