Marking Policy

[MrsTruper]

I am going to ask my dd's school to see their marking policy. Reason being my daughter feels disheartened that her works seems to disappear into a black hole and the teachers say she will get it back at the end of the year (She is in Year 2).

From what I have asked about so far, the teacher collects work, and then gives class feedback according to what the whole class found most difficult etc. For example for spelling my daughter didn't get to know which words she got right/wrong, all the teacher did was go over the ones most people got wrong. That kind of thing.

When I spoke to the teacher about it well they just restated what my daughter told me - whole class marked, then generalised feedback. I find this astonishing as this explains exactly why my daughter feels she does not know how to improve her OWN work.

So the question is: What should I be looking for in a primary school marking feedback policy? (when I get it) I would have thought some level of INDIVIDUAL feedback surely?

Thanks everyone

I work in an infant school and we would not be allowed to do this, especially for so much of their work. We have to give feedback on individual pieces of work - verbal and/or written. Our main feedback takes the form of two stars and a wish - stars are things that are good, the wish is a target for next time. At the very least each piece of work needs initialing and a tick but so many have to be more details, as above. We don't give out levels, etc as they are pretty meaningless to young children and we don;t do spelling tests or similar - if we did we would give back marks though individually.

If OFSTED come in they are on sticky ground I would think. The OFSTED team can and often do ask children about their work and what their targets are.

My children have targets for literacy. For example my y1 son has to make sure he uses connectives like and/but in his work. When he achieves this target by demonstrating it in independent writing x number of times, he gets a new one.

In numeracy he also gets targets.

My children know their spelling scores and which ones they got wrong and my older ones are juniors so they've had quite a few teachers between them.