Quickstarting

Developing school Quickstarts - whole school policy is whole-school practice.

In real-life a ‘Quickstart’ guide is usually provided for electrical items like I-Pods or telephones. The guides have just enough information to allow the user to get started with a fuller manual available on-line. In educational terms, the ‘Quickstart’ does the same job – i.e. a whole-school policy on Marking and Feedback is reduced to one side of A4 – containing the practicalities that teachers will need to know to get the policy to work.

'Quickstarts’ can be developed from any school policy or approach, but tend to be most successful for Marking and Feedback, Working Walls (Literacy and Mathematics), planning, a whole-school approach to Guided Reading, target-setting and target-getting. By compiling a short handbook of main policy areas, Senior Leadership Teams know that they have a resource that will support any member of staff in school, but also any Supply teachers and students working with the school over a number of weeks.

Inform your practice today by downloading our Quickstart Guide for Literacy and Quickstart Guide for Mathematics. Take a look at Working Walls in action  and see how EW schools are making excellent use of them to underpin effective teaching and learning.