Marking Policy

 

Aims

• To provide praise and encouragement by recognising what a child knows, understands and can do
• To identify the next steps in learning for that child
• To encourage children to reflect on their work
• To indicate errors for correction
• To provide information and inform assessment
• To inform parents and others looking at the child’s work

 Method

1. Work will be marked in the presence of the child where possible. The constraints of the Literacy and Numeracy strategy make this difficult during the literacy and numeracy hours
2. Marking will take the form of written comments supported by discussion with the child
3. Comments may be formative or summative and in addition to giving encouragement should relate to the learning objective
4. The colour and medium used for marking is at the discretion of the teacher but when making marks on a child’s work the teacher will be sensitive to the feelings of the child about the work. Red should not normally be used.
5. Words, phrases, ideas which demonstrate understanding of present or past learning objectives may be marked discretely with a small star. These should be annotated with the reason for the star.
6. No more than 5 spelling errors should be indicated for correction in any one piece of work
7. Recurring spelling errors may be underlined
8. Staff will ensure that all work has been dated
9. Computation errors will be marked by a dot or by indicating where the correction should be made
10. Crosses to indicate mistakes will not be used by adults

Success Criteria

The policy is being used

It is understood by children and parents

 

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