All children are entitled to regular and comprehensive feedback on their learning. Therefore, all teachers will mark work and give feedback in order to impact children’s learning.

Key Principles:

• The sole focus of feedback and marking should be to further the children’s learning

• Evidence of feedback and marking is incidental to the process; we do not provide additional evidence for external verification

• Written comments should only be used where they are accessible to the students according to age and ability

• Feedback delivered closest to the point of action is most effective, and as such, live verbal feedback delivered in lessons is more effective than comments provided at the later date

• Feedback is provided to both teachers and pupils as part of assessment processes in the classroom, and takes many forms other than written comments

• Feedback is part of the school’s wider assessment processes which aim to provide an appropriate level of challenge to pupils in lessons, allowing them to make good progress

• All pupil’s work should be reviewed by teachers at the earliest appropriate opportunity so that it might impact on future learning. When work is reviewed, it should be acknowledged in books.