#Feedforward
As an Apple Distinguished School, Goldsmith Primary Academy uses a hybrid model of feedback. Marking takes place in books and on iPads, with consistency ensured through shared symbols and digital tools. Showbie is central to this process, allowing feedback via voice notes, annotations, and screen recordings. This hybrid approach supports inclusion, accessibility, and high engagement across the curriculum.
Our next steps and data are also informed by our Teaching and Learning Cycle. Using strategies such as stop and jots, show call, naming laps, and clipboards, teachers gather real-time assessment information to centralise data and adapt teaching. We call this responsive teaching, which sits at the heart of our feedback approach through active observations.
Feed Forward Process
Staff follow the feedback process map to ensure consistency across the school. This ensures that:
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Feedback is clear, timely, and actionable.
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Pupils engage purposefully with marking and feed forward strategies.
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Teachers use feedback as a tool for planning, assessment, and future teaching.
Feedback in Books
As a hybrid school, feedback may be recorded in pupils’ books as well as digitally on iPads. Stamps, symbols, and approaches are used consistently across both formats to ensure clarity for pupils, parents, and staff. Active observations and digital notes also form part of the feedback record, ensuring consistency across written and digital platforms.
