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Research shows that responding to high quality marking and feedback is one of the real keys to making outstanding progress in learning. It was therefore really encouraging to see...
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Research shows that responding to high quality marking and feedback is one of the real keys to making outstanding progress in learning. It was therefore really encouraging to see...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Mrs Razavi was leading a great verbal discussion with her Year 7 science group. With plenty of students volunteering their answers following completion of a worksheet based...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was excellent to drop into Miss Booth’s Year 11 Science class and see such an effective dialogue of learning and feedback – through self-assessment, verbal and written...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was wonderful to see year 8 students engaged in their learning during a science lesson about reflection with Mrs Davey. Students had to complete an independent task on...
Posted by Kashan Malik
On Friday 29th June, Year 12 went on a biology field trip to Juniper Hall Field Centre in Surrey. On the trip we completed three required practicals: one studying light intensity...
Posted by Damien O'Brien
Science Club Wednesday 9th May with Mr. Green. Students enjoyed the task and challenge of making paper water bombs to knock down a target. Kavya in year 8 came closest to knocking...
Posted by Matthew Green
Every alternate day over Easter Mr Fisher set new SAM Learning Revision and Test tasks, feeding back with group e-mail updates. Revision tasks set included such key topics as...
Posted by Bill Fisher
British Science Week ran from 9th – 18th March this year and we celebrated it with a range of events from a scavenger hunt and daily quiz, to turning a copper coin gold and...
Posted by Damien O'Brien
After my previous weekly visits: watching videos of broken bones; learning about heat transfer and aiding a practical about acids and alkalis, I was really looking forward to my...
Posted by Jey Atchuthan
This week in science, 9S1 have been making life-size, wearable models of the digestive system using aprons. Many of the models show a great deal of effort and detail, one of which...
Posted by Claire Morrin
Research shows that responding to high quality marking and feedback is one of the real keys to making outstanding progress in learning.
It was therefore really encouraging to see such detailed and varied examples of feedback in Maz Dokelman’s Year 7 Science book earlier this week.
With all the worksheets neatly stuck into the book, titles underlined and diagrams effectively drawn and labelled carefully, there were peer, self and teacher feedback stickers, evidence of green pen teacher feedback from Miss Nugara and purple pen responses from Maz himself. Orange stickers also captured some excellent verbal feedback and a nice personalised cover had been provided for his well maintained book.
It was wonderful to see Year 8 students exploring nature during a recent science lesson with Assistant Headteacher, Ms Greenwood. The students were thoroughly enjoying identifying...