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Report card comment bank for teachers

A bank of report card comments covering overall progress, effort, participation, working with others, organisation and areas to work on, at three levels of tone. The student’s name and pronouns are substituted as you type, and every line is meant to be edited before it goes on a card.

Nothing here is generated from a student’s marks, and nothing writes itself onto a report card. A comment that has not been edited is usually visible as one.

Written by Checked by Kalyan SundaramLast reviewed

Writing thirty-five report card comments in a week is genuinely hard, and it is hard in a particular way: by the twentieth you are repeating yourself, and you know it, and the parent reading the twentieth deserves the same care as the first.

A comment bank helps with that — not by writing the remark, but by giving you a starting sentence so the effort goes into what is true about this child rather than into the phrasing.

Categories
Progress, effort, participation, peers, organisation, next steps
Tone
Strength, developing, needs attention
Pronouns
they/them, she/her, he/him — substituted as you type
Sign-in
None. Nothing stored or sent
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A comment bank is not generated remarks

The distinction matters more than it might appear, and it is the reason we build one and refuse the other.

A remark on a report card is a statement by a named teacher about a named child, and a parent reads it as exactly that. When software writes the sentence and prints it under a teacher’s signature, the parent has been misled about who formed the judgement — however good the sentence is.

With a bank, the teacher selects, edits and owns it. The judgement is theirs, which is the only thing that made the remark worth printing.

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Making a comment true

A line taken unedited reads as generic because it is. Four things turn a starting sentence into a real remark.

  1. Add the specific. "{Name} works with consistent effort" becomes real with an example — a piece of work, a moment in a lesson, a change since October.
  2. Cut what is not true. If half a sentence fits and half does not, delete the half that does not rather than leaving it.
  3. Say what comes next. Parents want to know what to do. One concrete next step is worth three sentences of assessment.
  4. Read it as the parent. Particularly for anything in the "needs attention" tone. It should be honest and it should not be a surprise on a card.
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On pronouns

The tool defaults to they/them and offers she/her and he/him. The default is deliberate: an unset value is never wrong about a child, and getting a pronoun wrong on a document a family keeps is a careless thing to do to someone.

FAQ

Questions people ask

Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.

Does this write comments from a student’s marks?

No, and it will not. Nothing here reads a mark or a grade. Choosing a comment on the basis of a score is how you get a card that says the same thing about every child in a band, which parents notice quickly.

Can I use these comments as they are?

You can, and we would rather you did not. They are starting sentences; the value on a report card is the specific detail only the teacher knows. An unedited comment usually reads as one.

Is this stored anywhere?

No. It runs in your browser, the name you type is never sent to us, and nothing is saved when you close the tab.

Does SchoolDeck do this inside the product?

Yes, the same bank is available at the point of entering remarks, with the same rule: a teacher chooses and edits, and nothing is published automatically under their name.

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Checked by the Implementations desk on 7 September 2026. Corrections go in the page, dated, rather than quietly.

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