Marking and Feedback Party
Marking and Feedback is high on the staff agenda as it is such a vital factor in student progress. Over the last couple of years, our staff have really worked hard to find...
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Marking and Feedback is high on the staff agenda as it is such a vital factor in student progress. Over the last couple of years, our staff have really worked hard to find...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
Not having my own room, I move around the school to teach my lessons. Whilst this may be a challenge or even annoying in your usual school, this certainly isn’t the case at...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
On Monday, three of our long standing anti-bullying ambassadors joined the Senior Leadership Team in the Executive Principal’s office to share some of the great work they...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
It has been heartwarming to see how well our Year 7 students and their families have already become a settled and happy part of our school. INDUCTION DAY This was a special first...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
In our Year 10 assembly this week, Ms Smith, Pastoral Manager for Year 10, shared some words of wisdom to help our Year 10 students embark as positively as possible on the 18...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
In this week’s Year 13 assembly, our outstanding Head of Sixth Form, Mr O’Kelly, spoke to our Year 13 Students about what a crucial time lay ahead. If they...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
On Tuesday 14th September, a special assembly was delivered by our new Student Leadership Coordinator, Mr Burley. Over 150 students attended after having applied for and been...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
As part of the whole school enrichment day, Year 10 had an exciting RE and PE day planned for them. In one of the RE sessions, the students were discussing some very thought...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
Our annual, prestigious, Rewards Evening was scheduled for Thursday 1st July and due to the restrictions, the event had to be celebrated virtually. Despite not being able to meet...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
This week we saw the exam season come to an end. Starting with our Year 7 and 8 end of year exams four weeks ago, we have cycled through Year 9 exams in week 2 and Year 10 and 12...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
Marking and Feedback is high on the staff agenda as it is such a vital factor in student progress. Over the last couple of years, our staff have really worked hard to find creative and smart ways of delivering feedback to students in order for them to progress even further. This feedback can come in many shapes and forms and certainly during remote learning, staff were amazing at finding and sharing great feedback solutions which served the purpose of marking electronically submitted work. Of course, a lot of the great finds from this time continue to be utilised – especially with the continued use of many Google Classrooms.
In support of sharing best practice with each other, all staff were asked to visit two other teachers to look at their marking and feedback during a dedicated fortnight at the start of November. The gems from this were shared at the start of a Marking Party held at school this week. Mr Gray and Mr Symeou (two of our Advanced Lead Teachers), presented the results from the fortnight, before staff moved into their faculty areas to mark in the fine company of their colleagues. As a token of appreciation for all their efforts, staff were treated to a goodie bag containing some green pens, assessment stickers, sweets and biscuits.
As I walked around the various rooms, some were getting into the spirit and marking to Christmas music, whilst others preferred some soothing music or just a calm silence. All in all, staff really appreciated the opportunity for collegiate marking and rumours have it some might continue having their own marking parties moving forward!
This term has been jam packed with lots of practical work and I have had the pleasure of teaching 07S/Ty3 for the textiles and food and nutrition projects so far, and boy oh boy...
Our latest Marking and Feedback Evaluation Fortnight is focussing solely on the power of verbal feedback and how this constant teacher strategy is being employed across our...