Humanities Marking Policy

Humanities exercise books

The date will be written in full, i.e. 5 th January (no need for day or year)
All written work in pen and drawings in pencil
Students will only complete work for marking on the right hand page. The left hand page
will be used for the following activities; Notes/ Planning, Correcting spells, Peer/Self
Assessment, Responding to feedback/ closing the gap activities/ DIRT tasks, Quality
Marking reviews, Sticking in sheets, Staff marking, Definitions, Key dates, Extension
activities/ Challenge cards
All teacher marking to use green pen
Type of
What it looks like
Feedback
Acknowledgi Work is ticked or acknowledged by simple comments.
ng and
It means the work has been checked for completion and
checking
correctness.

Verbal
Feedback

Identified by the VF stamp (or writing VF in the margin)

following dialogue with a student or group of students.
Students may act on the feedback in purple pen if they are
correcting their work.

Suggested
frequency
Every piece
of work will
receive this
level as a
minimum
Used as
appropriate
to support
other
feedback
Every 3
pieces of
work.

Quality
Opportunities are built into SOW and lessons to ensure both
marking by
self and peer assessment can take place.
the students Peer/Self assessment include WWW and EBI comments which
and pupil
are supplied by the teacher to ensure quality feedback.
response
Students could provide feedback in a what I have learnt
activity or as a review of the topic.
Double ticks show where students have demonstrated
excellent understanding or a skill. Students then identify why
this part of the work is excellent
The word NOW at the start of an EBI signposts that students
will act on this feedback
Students complete these activities with a purple pen.
Quality
This is detailed feedback which relates to how well the student Every 3-6
marking by
pieces of
has achieved the learning outcome, demonstrated
the teacher
work.
knowledge or skills.
It shows students what they need to do to reach the next step
and gives a student an understanding of where they are and
where they need to be
It includes a WWW and an EBI.
When appropriate the EBI should start with the word NOW to
show the student needs to act on the feedback given
Marking plasters for common EBIs can be used.
Quality
When starting a new assessment the students write a target or Once a
marking of
module/ topic
focus for the assessment. E.g. In this assessment I will
assessments
include a conclusion, I will include facts and figures, I will use
by teacher
capital letters for place names.
and pupil
The detailed feedback relates to a mark scheme or success
criteria
It includes a WWW and an EBI
The students will complete an activity after marking has taken
Please also refer to the Witham marking guidance and the marking negotiable documents
available on SharePoint should you require further clarification

Literacy
Feedback

place which acts on an EBI

The Humanities marking review sheet is used
Uses the codes identified in the Stop-Look-Literacy policy.
Students should act on errors identified. Spellings can be given
to students if appropriate.
No more than 5 spelling errors on a page should be identified
and key terminology should be the priority.

Every piece
of work (as
part of the
acknowledgin
g feedback)

Please also refer to the Witham marking guidance and the marking negotiable documents
available on SharePoint should you require further clarification