Have you ever been looking at your young one's homework only to find strange markings written by the teacher, which turn out to be harder to decipher than your kid's scrawled penwork?
Well you're in luck if you've been left confused by them, as one teacher recently shared the meaning of some secret codes used by teachers.
The Mirror reports that TikTok star Miss Frankie, @missfrankie1, said that sometimes she and her colleagues will write notes like 'EBI' on homework, and it turns out there's a hidden meaning behind the letters.
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She explained that the secret codes are used to help teachers communicate with each other better, and it turns out there are more of them than you might think. From KCSIE to WWW and EBI, there's a multitude of codes out there that teachers are using to talk about your young ones - and we've explained what each of the codes means below.
Miss Frankie uploaded a video to TikTok, which has been liked more than 100,000 times, where she spoke to her friend Zoe to see if she understood the codes. She captioned the video: "Seeing if my friend knows teacher terminology."
In the clip, she said: "Okay, I'm a primary school teacher and Zoe's a midwife. So I'm going to ask her what some of these acronyms mean that I use in work."
She then started with the term LO, which means learning objectives, then she moved on to PP/FSM, and she explained this means 'pupil premium' and 'free school meals'. She continued: "If I honour a child's work when I'm marking it, I will put an EBI and a WWW."
Miss Frankie then explained that EBI stands for 'even better if' and WWW stands for 'what went well', before turning her attention to what WT, WA, and GD mean. The TikTok creator continued: "So WT means 'working towards'. WA means 'working at an expected level' and GD means 'greater depth'."
The last code is KCSIE, which she explains means 'keeping children safe in education'.
She added: "It's the safeguarding framework that we have to use. So in safeguarding training, we have to use the KCSIE."
Have you ever noticed weird codes on your kids classroom work? Let us know below.
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