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Make pupil feedback count: how one SLT hears from every pupil, every year
The Marlborough Science Academy revolutionised pupil voice by introducing weekly feedback sessions across the entire school and making regular improvements in response. Here's how this SLT did it, and how you can too.
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What’s different about this feedback system?
- The senior leadership team (SLT) meets a small group of pupils from each year, every week, and asks them about their learning and wellbeing
- Rotating between different pupils each week means that the SLT hears directly from every pupil at least once over the course of every year
- The school uses this weekly feedback to make continuous improvements to learning and pupil wellbeing
It’ll work for you if …
- Your SLT can spare about 35 minutes each week
- You have enough SLT members to be able to meet pupils from every year group at the same time each week, with a ratio of up to 10 pupils per staff member
- Your school is a large primary, or secondary (in a smaller school you're probably already hearing directly from all your pupils anyway)
How does it work and what's the impact?
The SLT at The Marlborough Science Academy in St Albans:
- Action plans for the Early Years Foundation Stage
- Action plans to raise attainment of boys (primary)
- English and maths action plans: examples (secondary)
- EYFS: school improvement plans
- How to develop your long-term strategic plan
- How to organise your monitoring schedule
- Improving teaching and learning: action plans
- Linking your school improvement plan to your budget
- Literacy and maths action plans: examples (primary)
- Long-term strategic plans: examples Updated
- Monitoring teaching and learning: tracking sheets
- Post-inspection action plans
- Premises development plans: template
- PSHE (primary) action plans
- Raising attainment plans
- Reading action plans (primary)
- School improvement planning: role of governors
- School improvement plan: primary
- School improvement plans based on the 2019 Ofsted framework (primary)
- School improvement plans: secondary
- School improvement plans: special schools
- School improvement plan: template, checklist and monitoring guidance
- Science action plans (primary)
- SDP vs strategic plan: what the difference is and why it matters
- SENCO action plan: template and examples
- SMSC development: action plans
- Subject action plan: template and guidance
- Teaching phonics: aims
- Whole-school pastoral action plans
- Writing an effective SIP: planning guide
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