Our Lady Of Mount Carmel Catholic Primary School

MARKING 

Marking had recently been reviewed by all staff to improve the progress of all pupils in every lesson. This is based on “Visible learning “by Shirley Clarke and John Hattie which states that:

• Feedback focuses on helping students improve.

• Students should be given every opportunity to feedback to teachers all the way through the lesson.

• Face to face feedback has more impact than marking.

Feedback works best when:

• Children understand what their success criteria are / they know where they are going….

• The next step / question is clear, specific and actionable and moves learning forward or looks to extend thinking

• Children are involved in their own assessment / peer review

• Children are given time to respond to the feedback at a relevant point in the learning cycle e.g. working with the teacher the next day or addressing a misconception in the middle of a lesson

• Feedback is given at the right time to enable children to adapt and re-think their work e.g. within a lesson through verbal feedback.

• The feedback given has impacted on future learning e.g. the child has taken the feedback on board and you can see this in future work

• Lessons are adapted throughout the learning journey based on the needs of the children.

Our updated Marking code with the expectation of live marking in every lesson is shown below.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel School Marking Code        January 2023

Feedback moves our Learning forward is our vision for maximising the progress of all pupils in every lesson.

We do this through live marking, by all staff, in every lesson.