Marking and Feedback Fortnight 3
After half term our school community once again has a focus on one of the most powerful levers to secure outstanding progress – marking and feedback and, in our third...
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After half term our school community once again has a focus on one of the most powerful levers to secure outstanding progress – marking and feedback and, in our third...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Staff take Marking and Feedback seriously at BMS as we appreciate it is a crucial element of student progress. At this time of year, in addition to exercise books and class tests,...
Posted by Graeme Searle
Top Lead Practitioner for English and Whole School Literacy Ms Bowe reminded all staff in our Monday Magic Moment at the start of the week to build in a focus on literacy when...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
At Bushey Meads we take marking and feedback very seriously and work hard together to ensure our ongoing dialogue of feedback supports students to make very good progress in their...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
To support teachers in preparing for the Marking and Feedback Fortnight, a Marking and Feedback Breakfast took the place of staff briefing on Friday 6th March. A large number of...
Posted by Graeme Searle
The second Marking and Feedback Fortnight began on Monday 9th March (a two week period during which time the spotlight is shone on marking and feedback across the school a little...
Posted by Graeme Searle
Feedback is imperative for people to learn and move forward – be it an adult receiving feedback from a tennis instructor or piano teacher or a student receiving feedback...
Posted by Graeme Searle
Our concluding Friday Faculty Focus at the end of this year’s first very successful Marking and Feedback Fortnight of the academic year shared some superb best practice from the...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
As you are aware, we take marking and feedback seriously at BMS because high quality feedback has a positive impact on student progress. As a result we host three Marking and...
Posted by Graeme Searle
It was brilliant to see some very powerful live marking in action in Mrs Ahmed’s Year 7 maths lesson on Monday of this week. Under the topic of equations with brackets students...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
After half term our school community once again has a focus on one of the most powerful levers to secure outstanding progress – marking and feedback and, in our third Marking and Feedback fortnight of the year, we hope to celebrate all that is great about our continued practice in this area.
One of the benefits of embracing online learning has been the way so many staff have diversified their approach to providing feedback. Verbal ‘motes’ are now used more frequently, as is live feedback to students through marking on google documents as they work in real time.
Acting Lead Practitioner Mrs Hoskins introduced the fortnight in Staff Briefing on Monday morning by reminding all staff of the focus on blended marking – a powerful mix of an in-book and online approach to providing students with meaningful feedback.
Students have their part to play as well. All students must have a purple pen so that they can re-draft pieces of work appropriately, they must ensure all feedback stickers are fully completed, their presentation needs to meet expectations – with all titles underlined in colour using a ruler, their work must be dated and all diagrams and pictures should be coloured in and labelled carefully.
As parents and carers do check your children’s work and exercise books to ensure that they are ready for this important fortnight in our school calendar when they return after the half term break.
Despite the adverse weather it has been great to see so many students involved in extra-curricular sport this half term. Clubs have been taking place every evening in athletics,...
Ms Pattni, Lead Practitioner, and Mr Godfrey, Advanced Lead Teacher, delivered extremely useful CPD to staff on Friday morning on the topic of marking and feedback. The CPD gave...