Marking and feedback:

• ensures that teachers and parents understand where pupils are with their learning and what they need to do to improve further;

• informs interventions to make sure that pupils’ progress is on track; and

• supports pupils’ evaluation of their own learning.

It is essential that whole school marking-related policies recognise that feedback to pupils can be given verbally or in writing and that both types of feedback can be equally valid. Written feedback or marking should therefore not necessarily be given greater status or emphasis than verbal feedback. For some forms of learning and for the youngest pupils, the greater part of feedback given to pupils is likely to be verbal rather than in writing. Depending on context and the professional judgement of teachers, verbal feedback can also be given to pupils individually as well as collectively.

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Marking Codes