Ending on a High!
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...
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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
It was great to hear from one of our specialist Geography teachers at the start of this week in our Monday Magic Moment at Staff Briefing. Outlining his strategies (tailored to...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
One of the best ways to support students in making progress with their work is to provide them with high quality feedback via assessment. This can take many forms such as self...
Posted by Graeme Searle
As we prepare to start our third and final Marking and Feedback fortnight of the year it was great to hear from top teacher and Lead Practitioner for English and Whole School...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
At BMS we take the important role of providing clear feedback to students very seriously. Whilst we recognise that this is an ongoing part of our work as teachers and teaching...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
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...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was great to walk through a real variety of superb English lessons earlier this week and see how well all teachers were enabling students to capture the detailed verbal...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Verbal feedback from teachers is one of the most common forms of feedback given in classrooms across the school. In this video we capture Mr Chalkley providing constant verbal...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
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 Design and Technology Faculty related to facilitating high quality peer feedback.
Mrs Hewitt highlighted a number of examples provided by teachers from across the faculty including the use of teacher prompts, references to clear success criteria, checklists and encouraging online feedback using our google platform for learning. It was very powerful and encouraged all staff to continue moving this important agenda in school to the next level.
Our first Marking and Feedback Fortnight of the year ended with a Friday Faculty Focus delivered by our talented Head of RE Ms Osman. Mrs Osman reminded all staff of the...
In our final Friday Faculty Focus of the half term, our outstanding IT Manager across the Trust Mr Furr shared details with the wider staff of all the work his team, alongside...