Our feedback policy is broken into 2 main sections- feedback from teachers and student engagement with their feedback. We believe that for feedback to be effective, students engaging with it has to take place!

Feedback is a central part of our ASSESSMENT strand in our T&L framework- so it will naturally take place via different means during lesson time- verbalised feedback, whole class feedback, peer feedback etc.

Students will also receive written feedback from their class teacher which will then allow them to complete a CLOSING THE GAP task to address their own misconceptions and targets. Our CtG tasks are always on yellow paper.

We are also keen to stress that written feedback can also be found on Google Classroom. Google Classroom allows us to give feedback using MOTE  (a voice recorded feature) and via the comment bank, criteria rubrics and Google form quizzing. Our students are very much used to engaging with feedback in this way too!

1. Using rubrics- Attaching a rubric to an assessment means that teachers can quickly assess work against criteria. This will then automatically populate feedback for that student depending on their areas of improvement.

At RVHS, we use 2 tools to help us do this- Mote & Vocaroo. Both of these tools allow us to record our voices giving students feedback on their work. This adds a personal edge to feedback and students can listen to it as many times as they need to!

Google Classroom also allows us to leave detailed comments attached to specific areas of a students work. There is also a comment bank feature which allows teachers to generate common comments and re-apply them across numerous pieces of work. Students can reply and engage with the comments to make improvements.