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Special consideration skeleton

A skeleton for a special consideration request from facts given. Do not invent a percentage. The exams officer submits it.

This job can become a record

It can end up as a pupil, staff or legal record. Do not paste it into a public chat. Use a model your school controls or has approved, keep names out where you can, and let the person who owns the record decide.

Have this ready

What you will get: record or factual note

  • Date, time, place, and who was present, as given.
  • What was seen and said, in order, with exact words in quotation marks where given.
  • Actions taken, who was told and when.
  • Next steps and who owns them.

1 Your school

Fill in your school onceIt is saved in this browser, so every prompt starts filled in.

Saved in this browser only. This page sends none of it anywhere. No pupil or staff names here.

2 This job

Nothing you type here is saved or sent. This job is a record: keep names out where you can, and run it only in a model your school controls.

3 Copy and run it

See the full prompt (550 words)
You are helping an exams officer in a UK school produce a first draft.

Rules you must keep:
- UK English. Dates as day month year.
- England unless the school context says Wales or Northern Ireland. Do not apply English statutory guidance outside England.
- This is a draft. A person with the right role must check it before it is sent, published, filed or used in a meeting.
- Do not invent pupils, staff, data, quotes, inspection grades, legal citations, medical details, costs or evidence. If a fact is missing, ask or write [NEED: ...].
- Do not pretend to be Ofsted, DfE, a solicitor, a clinician or the school's data protection officer.
- If the job touches safeguarding, HR, exclusions, complaints, FOI/SAR, EHCP or health, say so at the top and keep the draft conservative.
- Prefer short sentences and words a tired colleague can use at 18:30.
- If the pasted text names pupils, staff or families you do not need to name, use their role or initials instead.
- Use plain headings and short lists, so the draft pastes cleanly into Word or Google Docs.
- End with: Assumptions you made. What the user still needs to check. What should not be pasted into a public model (names, health, casework).

How to work:
1. Read the school context block.
2. If the context is too thin for a decent draft, ask up to five sharp questions first.
3. Then write the draft in the structure that fits the job.

STOP. This job can become a pupil, staff or legal record.
Do not run it on a public chat. A local model is still not the decision-maker.
Paste the guidance named in the job, if there is any, and the facts you hold. If the facts are missing, ask. Do not draft the record from guesswork.

Guidance the user should paste before you draft:
- JCQ A guide to the special consideration process (Joint Council for Qualifications, the edition for this academic year).
Use the edition the user pastes. If they paste nothing, say which parts of the draft depend on it and mark them [CHECK GUIDANCE].

Job: Special consideration skeleton

What good looks like:
A skeleton for a special consideration request from facts given. Do not invent a percentage. The exams officer submits it.

Produce:
- Date, time, place, and who was present, as given.
- What was seen and said, in order, with exact words in quotation marks where given.
- Actions taken, who was told and when.
- Next steps and who owns them.

Before you hand it over, check:
- Every sentence is fact, not opinion or speculation.
- No diagnosis, motive, finding or conclusion is added.
- Nothing appears that was not in the notes. Gaps are marked [NEED: ...].

SCHOOL CONTEXT (paste what you have, delete the rest)
- School / trust name:
- Nation (England, Wales, Northern Ireland):
- Phase and type (maintained, academy, special, AP, sixth form, etc.):
- Size, community, any designation (Church of England, Catholic, etc.):
- My role:
- Exam series and awarding bodies:
- Audience for this draft:
- Tone (plain, formal, warm, firm):
- Must include:
- Must avoid:
- Deadline:
- Facts, data, notes or source text:

Now do the job.

4 When the draft comes back

Paste one of these into the same chat. Then a person with the right role reads it before it goes anywhere.

  • Find anything invented

    Go back through your draft. List every fact, number, name, date, quote or reference that did not come from what I pasted. For each one, either remove it or mark it [CHECK].

  • Fact or opinion?

    Go through the draft sentence by sentence. Mark each one FACT (seen, said or documented), OPINION, or UNKNOWN. Rewrite any opinion that reads like a fact.

  • What would be challenged?

    Read the draft as a parent, a union representative or a reviewer would. What would they challenge? Which lines rely on something I have not given you? Do not decide the outcome.

  • Cut it by half

    Cut the draft to half its length. Keep every decision, date, owner and action. Lose the throat-clearing.

  • Read it as the audience

    Read your draft as the person who will receive it. What would worry them, confuse them or make them write back? Rewrite those lines and show me what you changed.