Do your children get marked English writing homework at secondary school?

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In key stage 3/4, does your child do extended writing for English Language homework and, if so, does the work get marked by their teachers?

Our school only does extended writing in class, and either the students peer-review it, or else sometimes the teacher looks at their books. I always assumed this was so that the teachers didn't have a lot of marking to do. More recently, I was told it's because if they did writing for homework many students would use AI (though the English department was doing it this way long before ChatGPT was launched).

The teachers obviously do mark their summative assessments. My eldest DC always got 8s/9s in those, so I wasn't worried, but in the actual GCSE he got a 6. We got his paper and I was a little shocked by some of his grammar and spelling. It made me regret not seeing more of his work at home over the years because I would have intervened if I'd realised.

Ex teacher.

our English department marked three major pieces of work per half term. These would be proper in depth marking with feedback and next steps given.

homework would often be marked in class (books swopped) or peer marked.

books went home at the end of each year so parents could see what was done and they were available at parents evenings too. Obviously most kids kept the books at home as well.

we had end of year exams in all years which were marked by the teachers and full feedback given plus papers sent home (lots of tutors in our area).

ks4 parents evenings would usually have assessments there and teachers would use as examples.

spelling is not worth a lot of marks in gcse English.