Skill: course-build → write-like-james → review-page @ 7610d41

Grade 5 Science: built, checked and live

Status: 9 October 2026, night. Every topic is live with its lessons, quizzes, mastery banks, pictures and videos in hand or landing. The four strand tests and the end-of-grade test are written fresh, examined and read cold. Three cards wait for you; nothing else does.

What you asked for this morning, and where it stands

You wrote: "you can now go ahead and complete grade 5, including all videos & quizzes (if anything you think really needs me to rule on, you can create a page for it — though try and limit it to the top ten most important rulings)."

• The systemic report is on the site (Grade 5 systemic issues report). Three faults were systemic and now fail a checker before a topic ships: a coined term swapped for other words, vague titles and references, loose numbers. Three were writer's habits a reader has to catch. The 21 topics you had not reviewed were swept for all six before their videos went.
• Your 86 video rulings and your ten card rulings are all in the content. The biggest: balanced and unbalanced forces are the words (Topic 2 rebuilt); static electricity names Topic 4; the circuit lesson closes Topic 6; the control-group lesson is on your bean plants; chemical and physical change are said once as the test's words; evidence "supports that an idea is true"; the Pluto line; the recall items are a separate bank, never before a lesson.
• Videos. Every topic's batch went to the pipeline. Each landing is held until it speaks its protected lines as written and shows only short bullets, then placed; a landing that fails is edited by its id, never re-rendered. Tonight the platform accepted some posts it had timed out on, so a handful of lessons were rendered twice and about two thirds of the lessons were never accepted at all; the pipeline has stopped, is reconciling, and will re-feed one lesson at a time. Nothing is lost; the spread stretches into tomorrow. No duplicate render has been confirmed so far; the pipeline sends the final count when the platform's queue drains.
• Pictures. Every topic has its pictures through David's image pack, each judged and read on the page. Two placeholders remain across the grade with reasons recorded: a rubber-band launcher every take drew the wrong way round, and a pulse-taking cartoon the renderer could not draw truthfully.
• Tests. Four strand tests, three forms each, and the end-of-grade test, two forms, all in Grade 3's shape. Every item was written for the test; a non-author examiner then struck every item that was a lesson scene in new words (the word sweep passes them; only a reader's eye catches them) and replaced it. Each form was read cold by a reader who never saw the keys; every disagreement and giveaway went back as a text fix and was read again. Every form is gated tonight; the pass marks are yours.

The three cards for you

1. The newton (Topic 3's Needs-you page): no state standard requires measuring a force at Grade 5, but TEKS names the spring scale as a Grade 5 tool and Florida tells its item writers to use newtons. My recommendation: draw the spring scale and coin the newton in one told sentence, recognition only.
2. The strand-test pass mark (Grade 5 tests page): 26 or 27 of 30. One ruling settles Grade 3's open question too. My recommendation: 26.
3. The end-of-grade pass mark (same page): 43 of 47 is the first whole score at or above your 90 per cent. My recommendation: 43.

What the readers caught that the checkers could not

• A table in one item printing the answer to the item two places above it, in four separate tests. Single-item passes miss these; a re-reader told to check neighbours in both directions finds them. Proposed for the review brief, not yet a rule.
• Forty-nine of the ninety end-of-grade items, and fourteen to thirty-five per strand, were lesson or bank scenes re-dressed. The freshness sweep is a floor; the examiner is the gate.
• One shadow-graph option that no longer matched its own graph after a fix; one mass item whose bowl was weighed only once; one item resting on a fact only a bank item had ever stated. All fixed as text.

Where things are

Next, without you

The pipeline's re-feed and edits land through tomorrow; the ledger refreshes as they do. The TimeBack export of the tests follows the PP100 banks' route once the pass marks are ruled. The recall bank waits for a platform answer on how spaced retrieval reaches a student, raised with the hand-over, not a card.