Teacher explains what it means if you spot ‘EBI’ written on your child’s homework

Teacher and TikTok celebrity Miss Frankie has shared what it means if you spot the letters ‘EBI’ written on your children’s homework – have your kids had it yet?

A teacher has shared some of the secret codes used in schools to discuss children – including one that they write on homework. TikTok star Miss Frankie, @missfrankie1, said that sometimes she and other teachers will write ‘EBI’ on homework, and it turns out there’s a hidden meaning behind the letters.

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.

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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’.

She then explains what WT, WA, and GD means.

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.”

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