Learning Behaviours
Children in school today are going to be facing huge challenges in the wider world, and we are working with them to develop skills and attitudes that will enable them to be successful.
We have 6 learning behaviours focussed on developing our pupil’s ability to discuss their learning as well helping them to develop the language in order to do this.
Our 3 Rs and 3 Cs:
Reflective
Resilience
Resourceful
Collaboration
Connections
Curiosity
Developing learning behaviours and skills is important because:
- They draw attention to the processes of learning and not just the products.
- They are more likely to engage children in active rather than passive learning.
- They enable children to go beyond the mere recall of information and to develop a deeper understanding of topics.
- They create positive dispositions and habits for learning.
- They provide a new range of criteria against which children can evaluate their progress in learning.
Essentially, they enable pupils to learn how to learn.
| Reflective | We want to see children actively evaluating their work and developing the ability to believe that they can always improve, whilst taking pride in their own and others' work and achievements. |
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| Resilience | We want to see children learning from mistakes and knowing that having to rethink an aspect of their learning is a way to improve: resilience is about picking themselves up after a setback and being able to give it another go. |
| Resourceful | We want to see children knowing what to do next by having their own strategies which they are able to choose between – to think of and find their own solutions. |
| Collaboration | We want to see children learning through working together, clarifying ideas and evaluating others' ideas through discussions. Information that is discussed is retained in long-term memory. |
| Connections | We want to see children being able to connect what they have learnt from one lesson to another, and to their lives outside of school. |
| Curiosity | We want to see children asking their own questions to find out what is really going on in their learning and the wider world. |