The aims of marking pupils work are:

• To offer praise for good effort and achievement.
• To provide positive comments, advice and guidance to enable pupils to progress.
• To correct any misconceptions in understanding or application of skills and knowledge.

To maintain a degree of consistency, the following guidelines apply to the Senior Department.

1. All work needs to have a date, title and an indication of whether it is class or prep work. All work headed up needs to be underlined with a ruler.
2. All diagrams should be drawn and in pencil. Labelling should be printed. All straight lines are to be drawn with a ruler.
3. Spelling mistakes should be indicated. The number of words corrected must be left to the teacher’s discretion. Knowledge of a pupil’s dyslexic problems should suggest that too many corrections would be disadvantageous and de-motivating.
4. A selected number of words – maximum of 3 – should be written by the teacher at the end of a piece of work if applicable.
5. Pupils should then write out each correction 3 times and should be encouraged to learn the words using the ‘look, cover, write and check’ method. N.B. poor spellers must be encouraged and not penalised by this method.
6. Poorly presented work should not be marked and should be returned to the pupil to be redone. Persistent poor presentation may result in a negative conduct.
7. All marking and corrections should be written clearly. Marking should not be done in blue or black ink.
8. Marks should be awarded, where appropriate, out of 10 for each piece of work. GCSE grades can be used for KS4 where applicable.
9. Work which is neatly presented, well written, free from spelling errors and competently completed, should be awarded with a house/praise point or similar award. This rule also applies to the Junior Department as well.
10. Where work submitted fails to meet the required standards set by the College and the teacher, a detention maybe given.

To maintain a degree of consistency, the following guidelines apply to the Junior Department.

1. Work should be marked clearly with constructive comments, taking into account the effort and attainment appropriate to the individual pupil.
2. Teachers should mark work promptly. When appropriate teachers should discuss marks ands comments with pupils to ensure they understand the marking procedures.
3. In mathematics correct answers are marked with a √ and incorrect answers with a ●. Corrections to work are to be made in an appropriate manner for the age group.
4. In literacy and related subjects correct work is marked with a √ and incorrect work with a ●. Work is marked in accordance with the abilities and expectations of the individual pupil. Some spelling errors will be corrected if they relate to words which are familiar to the pupil. Incorrect words are underlined at the teacher’s discretion and corrections to be completed are to be made in an appropriate manner to the age group.
5. Across KS1 and KS2, house points, stickers and stamps are given to reinforce positive comments and to praise in an appropriate manner to the age of the individual pupil.
6. The last piece of work should be ruled off (with a ruler).
7. The date should be written at the top left hand side of the page. The format for writing the date is as follows:
   1. Day: Date: Year using letters and ordinals. e.g Tuesday 4 September.
   2. In mathematics the “short date” should be used e.g. 4.9.09.
8. Poorly presented work should be re-written by the pupil prior to marking.

KMS & AMG Sept 09
Due for revision Sept 10

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