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Gordon Brown is fascinated by all the speciific behaviour reward stickers this child has earned!

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Welcome to www.effectivemarking.co.uk

Effective Marking is a comprehensive and proven solution that schools can purchase to provide a coherent system for marking children’s work.

Subscribers to the website get access to a focused set of management tools (eg template action plan, work scrutiny forms, Teacher’s Handbook) and teachers get access to a very large number of focused marking stickers.

We provide training and can also provide follow-up support visits. Effective Marking has been used by schools all over the country since the website was launched in 2007. Read some of the feedback from Ofsted here.

The video clip below was made for Optimus Education. It gives a flavour of Effective Marking in action!

Effective Marking and the

National Curriculum 2014

Effective Marking will be updating some of the stickers so they are aligned with the new National Curriculum. Stickers for handwriting have already been updated.

Y5 Interpret representations of very large numbers

In 2014/15 the focus will be on producing new stickers aligned to the maths curriculum. The images used in these stickers will have a greater emphasis on supporting children’s mathematical conceptual understanding. (The examples on the right are from Year 5.)

Y5 Round very large numbers to the nearest 100 000

What's new?

8 June 2016

Marking stickers for problem solving

6 June 2016
New resources in response to the Independent Teacher Workload Review Group’s report, “Eliminating unnecessary workload around marking” and the NCETM’s “Marking and Evidence Guidance for Primary Mathematics Teaching”

14 April 2015
Stickers for children to wear when learn particular multiplication tables

9 April 2015
Marking stickers for addition and subtraction - NC 2014
See the guide here

22 March 2015
Marking stickers for time - NC 2014
See the guide here

8 December 2014
Marking stickers for fractions - NC 2014
See the guide here

13 October 2014
Marking stickers for fractions - NC 2014
See the guide here
((Download the stickers in the Members Only section)

14 September 2014
NEW
Marking stickers to support teaching of place value in the new National Curriculum
See the guide here
(Download the stickers in the Members Only section)

15 June 2014
We've been updating Effective Maths. Have you seen the new assessment materials?

18 April 2014
NEW! The Refugee Boy Project

4 March 2014
Did you know you can buy low cost blank stickers from Label Planet?

9 February 2014
Letter family stickers

26 January 2014
Numeral formation stickers

12 January 2014
Uppercase formation stickers

5 January 2014
Handwriting marking stickers for the 2014 National Curriculum : lower case formation (Y1)

6 December 2013
New subscription site to support the teaching of handwriting: Effective Handwriting

November 2013
Coming soon...
Marking stickers to support the assessment of fractions in the new National Curriculum for maths

You can download an extract from the fractions guide here

Maths marking stickers linked to the 2014 National Curriculum for Maths

October 2013
New site to support NC for maths: Effective Maths

October 2013
New subscription site for the Istanbul topic

July 2013
Ofsted report from Mandeville School, Hackney, says:
Marking and feedback are of a high quality. Teachers mark pupils’ work frequently and in detail.
They correct mistakes and provide guidance on how to improve or a question to challenge them
further. Pupils are expected to respond to teachers’ comments, which are in turn marked for
accuracy and evidence of progress.

June 2013
Ofsted report from Whitmore School, Hackney, says:
The school’s very effective marking policy is closely adhered to by all teachers. Pupils receive detailed feedback regularly and frequently on their written work so that they know what they did well and how to improve. They respond to teachers' marking with written comments to
demonstrate they have understood the points that have been made about their work.

January 2013
Marking stickers to use for teaching money - download the planning guide (download the stickers in the 'members only'section)

January 2013
We have two courses running for individual delegates on Friday 25 January. Click on the link near top right corner for details. The Mandeville course is now full.

September 2012
We are delighted that Jessop Primary School in Lambeth has achieved an outstanding Ofsted report.
Jessop attended training at Woodberry Down in September 2011. They then implemented Effective Marking and the impact is clear throughout the report. “The use of assessment to support pupils’ learning is especially effective and marking is of a very high quality… Pupils routinely assess and compare their own work with partners, including children in the Early Years Foundation Stage, and this helps to clarify their thinking. Teachers’ feedback to pupils is of a very high quality and the use of red and green marking informs pupils about the next steps in their learning and gives them opportunities to respond to teachers’ comments. Pupils have aspirational, but realistic, targets and these are shared in lessons so that they can focus on their level of challenge.” Well done!

September 2012
Woodberry Down is now a National Teaching School

May 2012
New training dates are now added via our Twitter feed. We also update the green box to the right of this 'What's new' section.

April 2012
New date added for Effective Marking training: 25 May 2012 at Woodberry Down. This course is for individual delegates.

September 2011
Sample plan from our new programme - Effective Handwriting

30 May 2011
Free handwriting classroom display posters

26 May 2011
Quality feedback from teachers is more effective in raising grades than homework, uniforms and smaller classes, a Durham University study says.
Effective feedback came top of the list in the Sutton Trust study.

May 2011
Class teachers required for September 2011 - Best Start Federation Schools, Hackney, London

April 2011
London Fields, an Effective Marking school, is judged as 'outstanding'.
"Teachers’ use of assessment to support learning is exemplary; it is remarkably detailed, absolutely consistent..."

November 2010
Woodberry Down is one of 12 schools featured in new Ofsted report - 'Reading by six: how the best schools do it.'

November 2010
Updated topic for Key Stage 2 history
Who was Mary Anning?

November 2010
Handwriting training

October 2010
Marking stickers to support vocabulary teaching

June 2010
Self-assessment stickers for use in history and geography

May 2010
Reading comprehension marking stickers

March 2010
Woodberry Down, the school where Effective Marking has its origins, becomes England’s first primary Accredited Schools Group

February 2010
The latest comments from Ofsted

October 2009
Positive behaviour reward stickers

July 2009
New topic for Key Stage 2
What can we find out about life in Istanbul?
Complete with marking stickers

19 April 2009
Science marking stickers linked to QCA units
5E Earth Sun and Moon
4E Friction
3B Helping plants grow well

23 February 2009
Effective Marking is a finalist in the
Innovation Award - Education Resources
Awards 2009 .