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title: "Introducing the purple polishing pencil..."
url: "https://www.ststephenskearsley.co.uk/blog/2020-10-13-19-15-54-introducing-the-purple-polishing-pencil"
school: "St Stephen's Kearsley Moor CofE Primary School"
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# Introducing the purple polishing pencil...

  ![Image of Introducing the purple polishing pencil...](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/images/blog/IMG_6274.JPG)  13 October 2020   [Lyndsey Faulkner](https://www.ststephenskearsley.co.uk/blog/author/Lyndsey)   [Year 1 Blog](https://www.ststephenskearsley.co.uk/blog/category/year-1-blog)

Within Year 1 the children are beginning to use their purple polishing pencil to fix up any small mistakes or omissions. Half the class have now been trained already in the "way of the purple pencil". Right across school the children will be ble to polish their learning using this approach. Already I have noticed the demand for the rubber has gone down and also that the children are showing more resilience, with a positive growth mindset as mistakes are proof of learning.

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