Tales from Kingswood - Year 7 End-of-year Reports (Patreon)

Year 7 at Kingswood is over, and that means it's time for end-of-year reports. These originally started out as a list of classes, with the grades each of the boys got. I did it just as a character-building exercise to help me understand what each of the characters was good/bad at, but from there I decided to expand a little.

Long story short, they expanded a lot! They became full-on proper end-of-year reports for each of the main eight. Each report includes:

• Individual reports for each subject, with a grade from 0 to 5 stars, plus grade overview
• Feedback from extracurricular activities
• Comments from relevant staff members on social activity, discipline, wellbeing and Headmaster's overview of the year
• Comments from mentor
• Thoughts on successes and areas to improve, written by the student

A large majority of what's in the report has never featured in the story and is not overly relevant to the storyline, but it was still great to be able to show a full picture of their year at the school. Producing these also prompted me to make the school crest, just to make them look a little more official (I know it's pretty mediocre, I'm a writer not a designer!)

Aside from being fun (yes, I enjoy this sort of stuff, I'm a geek and proud) writing these helped inspire a lot of ideas for Year 8. So if you're inclined to read this sort of thing, I hope you enjoy.

For reference, just to help imagine it in the Kingswood reality, the report is printed as a little A5 booklet and each student is given a copy to take home with them at the end of the year.