Key Stage 3

Verbal:

• Verbal feedback will be given throughout lessons to provide immediate feedback for individuals, pairs or groups according to the set tasks.
• Students will be expected to act positively on the feedback given and to improve or refine their work, using red pen.

Written:

• Students will be given some feedback on assessed tasks at the end of each topic.
• Students will be given DIRT time to improve their work based on the feedback given.
• Students will be given feedback using success criteria. The success criteria will be highlighted to show what the student has achieved and what they need to do to improve on the work.
• Feedback lessons will follow these pieces to allow students to improve their work in DIRT based on the guidance given.  
• Where appropriate teachers may give whole class feedback where there have been common errors across a piece of work. 

Key Stage 4

Verbal:

• Verbal feedback will be given throughout lessons to provide immediate feedback for individuals, pairs or groups according to the set tasks.
• Students will be expected to act positively on the feedback given and to improve or refine their work, using red pen.

Written:

• Students will be asked to complete fortnightly assessments to check knowledge and understanding. This may be marked as a class or marked manually by the teacher where feedback may be given.
• Students will complete end of unit assessments, usually in the form of past exam questions.  Detailed written feedback will be given on exam questions and longer answers either on paper, in booklets. This may be presented throughout the body of work.
• Feedback lessons will follow these pieces to allow students to improve their work in DIRT based on the guidance given.
• There are longer assessments for each year group. At the end of year in Year 10 and a mock paper in November of Y11. These are marked by the teacher using GCSE mark schemes and feedback lessons follow all of these. The feedback lessons give students DIRT in order to improve and refine their exam answers (to be done in red).

Key Stage 5

Verbal:

• Verbal feedback will be given throughout lessons to provide immediate feedback for individuals, pairs or groups according to the set tasks.
• Students will be expected to act positively on the feedback given and to improve or refine their work.

Written:

• Student use folders at A Level for their lesson notes and exam materials. Folders are checked by staff at the end of every term. Staff check that all notes are complete, accurate and are well organised. 
• Students will complete regular formative assessments which may be peer marked or self-assessed using mark schemes in lessons to provide information on their knowledge of content and indicate areas which they may need to focus on.
• Detailed written feedback is given on some pieces of homework and classwork initially to check effort levels and set the expectations. As the year goes on it is mostly exam question answers which are marked using mark schemes and considering AOs.
• There are end of topic tests at A Level for all units studied. Feedback lessons follow all of these, these lessons give students DIRT in order to improve and refine their exam answers.  There is an end of Year 12 exam which will allow students to practice their examination technique and receive feedback.  Similarly, the Year 13 mock exams, in November will provide another opportunity for this.  

Non-examined assessment:

• Whilst students develop their enquiry, they receive guidance on their titles within the parameters set out by the exam board.
• Models of sections to be completed where work must be independent may be used to inform students of expectations as well as making clear reference to mark schemes as teacher feedback is not allowed on these pieces.