I’m a teacher and we use loads of secret codes about the kids every day, here’s what we’re really saying
A TEACHER has lifted the lid on some of the most popular acronyms that she and her colleagues use every single day.
TikTok user Miss Frankie, who can be found at @missfrankie1, explained that each of the secret codes have very important meanings and help staff to communicate effectively.
Revealing all in the clip, which has been liked over 100,000 times, Frankie asks her friend Zoe, who is a midwife, if she knows what each of the phrases means.
She titled the video: “Seeing if my friend knows teacher terminology.”
Frankie then told her followers: “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.”
Frankie then said that she was going to “start off easy” as she reeled off the first term – LO.
Zoe guessed correctly as she said that LO stands for “learning objectives”.
Frankie then moved on to the second common phrase, as she asked: “If a child is P P slash FSM, what does that mean?”
After Zoe said she wasn’t quite sure, Frankie explained that there were two separate parts to the answer – and one had to do with lunch time.
She said: “So PP means People Premium.
“And FSM means free school meals.”
Frankie continued to say that the third acronyms are used when she’s marking a child’s work or homework.
She added: “If I honour a child’s work when I’m marking it, I will put an EBI and a WWW.”
These stand for ‘Even better if’ and ‘What went well’ and help to give a pupil useful feedback.
Frankie’s next test was to see if Zoe knew what three categories – WT, WA and GD mean.
Frankie then shared the real meaning, as she continued that they all refer to a child’s ability and how they would deem they are working.
She explained: “So WT means Working Towards.
“WA means Working At an expected level and GD means Greater Depth.”
The last phrase on Frankie’s list was KCSIE – as she said it was definitely “the hardest one” so far.
After Zoe struggled to think of the correct answer, the teacher said: “KCSIE stands for Keeping Children Safe in Education.
“It’s the safeguarding framework that we have to use.
“So in safeguarding training we have to use the KCSIE.”
