Pre-Inspection Report: Generating Reports

Pre-Inspection Report: Generating Reports

The Pre-Inspection Report has been designed to aid schools that need a bespoke report to help with school inspections.  Further more, its been set up in such a way that should allow a school to replicate the conditions they have to report against from their local inspectorate.  

Alert
Please ensure you have reviewed and confirmed the settings for this report.

Things to consider before you generate a report

  1. Do you want to report on whole year groups or specific teacher groups?
    1. For some subjects, teaching groups are used due to the subject be taught.  If this is the case, you would select through groups and that subject only.
  2. Which data source does your school use for reporting purposes?
    1. Within Learning Ladders, you can choose from:
      1. Calculated and/or Teacher Judgement
      2. Calculated Judgements Only
      3. Teacher Judgements Only
  3. Which type of progress does your school use?
    1. Within Learning Ladders, schools can use
      1. Termed,
      2. Cumulative or,
      3. Defined progress
    2. Schools using Defined Progress Over Time can use the Start of Year 'term' within this report and KS1+
  4. Does your school use a 'Base Line' or 'Start Of Year' judgement as a reference point for report?
    1. Some schools use Start of Year/On Entry Assessment for the purpose, but to ensure you get an accurate report, you need to understand what your school uses
  5. What key attributes or groups does your school need to report on/view as part of the report?
      1. For example, Boys/Girls or EAL

Using the Selector to Generate Reports


This selector is common throughout Learning Ladders and Insights reports, but there are some slight variations to it depending on what data we are aiming to view.

  1. View, is the academic year of students you want to report on.  
    1. for example to view student attainment and progress for 2025/26, select 2025/26.
  2. Target Group is the option to filter or select the students you want to report on.  You can choose from:
    1. Classes and Groups
    2. Teachers
    3. Year Groups
    4. Ethnicities
    5. More Attributes, including Custom Attributes.
  3. Start Point only needs to be populated if you are using Defined Progress.  Schools not using Defined Progress will not see this option.  This selector allows you to specify the 'start' term the calculation will use to determine the students progress judgements.
    1. The start 'term' can be from the 'View' year chosen or a different academic year, eg, Sum 2 of the prior academic year.
  4. Time Frame allows you to specify the terms you want to use to generate the report.
    1. Its possible to include one or all terms from a selected academic year, but not from more than one academic year.
  5. Content allows you to select:
    1. Subjects/Ladders
    2. Data Source
      1. Calculated and/or Teacher Judgement
      2. Calculated Only
      3. Teacher Judgement Only
    3. Progress
      1. Term
        1. Uses/displays judgement from last term selected
      2. Cumulative
        1. Uses assessments and calculated judgement
        2. This can only be used with 'Calculated Only' data source
      3. Defined
        1. Uses Defined Progress mappings and calculation
  6. Generate Insights is the final step to then view the report.  
    1. Beneath this button is a reminder if any selections have not been made and the report is not able to be generated.  In this case, the button will remain a lighter colour and not be clickable.
  7. Download gives you the option to download a .csv of the report.
    1. The report will include everything that is shown on screen, including:
      1. all subjects
      2. all classes individually listed by subject (default)
      3. all summary/additional attributes selected
      4. percentages or numerical values, which ever is selected

Interpreting and Interacting with the Report

There is a lot of data contained with these reports and its therefore, important to understand what you are viewing within a report.  Below is a summary of the key areas within a report and what these mean.


  1. Selector Confirmation  This is the detail for all the selections that have been made and the report is for.
  2. Hide Percentage  This toggle is to amend/change seeing the percentage or student numbers.
    1. By default, this is set to show the number of students  for 'Expected or Above' and 'Above' columns
    2. This toggle only amends those two columns (in both Attainment and Progress) and the data within them
    3. When enabled, the columns will show the percentage of students within those two columns, and a % will appear within the column header
    4. in the above example, student numbers are being shown for the columns 'Expected or Above' and 'Above' for both Attainment and Progress
  3. Additional Attributes Within this report, its possible to display students with attributes or custom attributes associated.
    1. When you click on the button, only the attributes or custom attributes that are relevant for the target group will be display to be selected
    2. These selections only include students with the attribute
    3. These selections will display as a summary at the top of each subject
    4. Where you have two responses, such as Boys or Girls, yes or no, each option is available to be selected
    5. If you have multiple selections within a category, such as SEN/SEND or a custom attribute, each one is displayed. The system will not aggregate or add the selections from that category together, simply display each one and the associated data
  4. Attainment and Progress These are the respective reports for attainment and progress. The displayed results will be based on the selections you have made above. 
  5. Summary Displays a summary of each subject and any additional attributes selected
    1. By default, the only value to appear here will be for 'All' students
    2. When you select 'Additional Attributes', they will appear within this section, for each subject
    3. This show the total number of students (and those with no judgement) and the respective values for each column
  6. Values Displayed Gives numerical values for the respective report columns
    1. By default, the values will be a number but can be changed to a percentage.  See 2 above
    2. Where you see a number with a second bracketed number, this represents students with no available judgment.  
      1. eg next the to the 6 above is '784 (1)'. This means there are 784 students with judgments and included, and 1 student with no judgements that has been excluded from the report
  7. Year Group Each year group is summarised by default, but class breakdown can be seen by clicking the '+'
    1. Once clicked, all the corresponding years (for each subject) will display a full class list and the relevant data
    2. To close a class view, simple click the '-' icon next to the relevant year.
    3. One or more years can be expanded in this way
There is a lot to consider and view within this report so if you have any questions or concerns, do contact the support team who would be very pleased to help.
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