Marking and Feedback Fortnight
With our next BMS Marking and Feedback fortnight starting on Monday, it was great to hear Assistant Headteacher Mr Searle outlining a focus for the 2 weeks. One area we want to...
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With our next BMS Marking and Feedback fortnight starting on Monday, it was great to hear Assistant Headteacher Mr Searle outlining a focus for the 2 weeks. One area we want to...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
At Bushey Meads School we all know what DIRT is – Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time. On Monday in our Staff Briefing meeting Miss Smith reminded us all in her Monday...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
The final Final Friday Faculty Focus to mark the end of our latest Marking and Feedback fortnight was a really positive way to end an excellent period of time at BMS where we have...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
At Bushey Meads School we have a very eclectic and embedded culture of sharing best practice across all levels of the organisation to promote strategies related to improving...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
As one of the country’s first and leading technology colleges, with all our experience and rich legacy we continue to maximise the use of cutting edge state of the art resources...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Advanced Lead Teacher Miss Lindau led a really concise and useful Monday Magic Moment at the start of the week, sharing some smart advice for marking and providing useful feedback...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
No less than six top teachers at BMS shared some really effective strategies to make marking manageable last Friday during the Friday Faculty Foci coordinated by Assistant...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Highly respected international research shows that the biggest impact teachers and teaching assistants can have on improving student progress is in the key area of providing high...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
The second Marking and Feedback Fortnight took place recently and the theme was ‘Marking to Move Forward’. Staff were asked to mark a set of exercise books or test...
Posted by Graeme Searle
With our next BMS Marking and Feedback fortnight starting on Monday, it was great to hear Assistant Headteacher Mr Searle outlining a focus for the 2 weeks.
One area we want to work on to embed further is in capturing the powerful verbal feedback that we as staff give to all students on a daily basis.
Students can play their part in completing the highly visible orange stickers and of course respond in their work (whether practical or written) in the appropriate way.
This weekend, as parents and carers, do make sure that your child has their purple pen at the ready and ensures that all the feedback stickers and green pen marking have been responded to in their books and folders.
Research states that students responding to feedback is one of the most powerful strategies to ensuring excellent progress – worth spending some time on getting it right!
It is always a privilege to walk through the Maths Faculty at Bushey Meads School and see teachers and learning assistants passionate about maths and instilling a love of learning...
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...