Must try arder! Teacher sends off a school report ...with 16 errors in it

It reads as though it was written by a schoolchild – and a below-average student at that.

But this brief note, riddled with 16 grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, was actually the work of a teacher.

The report was sent by email to the parents of a pupil in the state school teacher's class, summarising the girl’s performance over the previous year.

The short report, sent by a form tutor at Gleed Girls' Technology College, in Lincolnshire, was littered with misspellings and grammatical errors (including uncircled '7's and 8's')



Liz Shawhulme, headteacher of Gleed Girls Technology College, said she was 'shocked by the number of mistakes'

But yesterday her mother said that all it really did was raise questions about the teacher's own ability.

Alongside simple spelling mistakes such as 'requriements' and 'occaisions', were misplaced apostrophes, missing letters and embarrassing typos such as 'ativities’ and ‘everning'.

The unnamed teacher at 800-pupil Gleed Girls’ Technology College, in Spalding, Lincolnshire, committed her first two errors in the email’s subject heading, before the note even began.

The pupil's mother said: 'What concerns me most is that this teacher is supposed to be responsible for raising my daughter’s educational standards.

'If her standards are that low, how can she expect my daughter’s to be high?

'By the time I got to the third paragraph I’d noted five mistakes.

'I would always check an email before I clicked send.

'I am very happy with the school in all other aspects of their dealings with my daughter. But I just received this email and was shocked at how poorly written it was.'

The all-girls school’s website says it is a ‘trailblazing’ institution which has an 'excellent reputation locally and nationally’, although the school is rated only as 'satisfactory' by Ofsted.

Liz Shawhulme, who is head teacher of the school, says she will apologise personally to the girl's mother



The watchdog concluded its most recent inspection report in October 2007 by ordering the school to improve the 'quality of teaching and learning’.



Only days ago Education Secretary Michael Gove called for teachers to clamp down on poor spelling and grammar.

Yesterday, the school’s head, Liz Shawhulme, said she was ‘shocked by the number of mistakes, many of which appear to be typos'.

'It was obviously written in haste and not checked but this is no excuse and I will be contacting the parent to apologise.’

