FURIOUS teachers at St Peter's High School have fought back against claims they are among staff to have marked-up GCSE English coursework, contributing to this year's exams fiasco.
Exam regulator Ofqual made the claims yesterday in reaction to thousands of pupils having to re-sit GCSE English Language exams after concerns about grading discrepancies.
But staff at the Stroud Road School insist they attended all required examination board training on the marking and assessment of exams, as laid out by the regulation board.
The school says it received explicit written confirmation from Ofqual that the standards being set matched guidelines and the school's marks were not changed.
Philip Rush, Deputy Headteacher, said: "The fiasco surrounding the unfairness of this summer's grades is a political fiasco.
"St Peter's High School deplores the slur made on the school's teachers by Ofqual's comments, and seeks to have them withdrawn.
"Teachers need to have a clear idea of standards being set by examinations so they can mark work accurately and set challenging targets for pupils.
This 'clear idea of standards' has been undermined by Ofqual's decisions, decisions which are regrettable and wrong."
In the training manual received by the school's English teachers, some work was marked and graded in order to help teachers see the standards being set.
Work in this training manual which exemplified a C grade would, in fact, have received a D grade after Ofqual manipulated grade boundaries after the event in summer 2012, according to the school.
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