Our Learning Behaviours
As part of our ongoing drive to provide our children with the best possible learning opportunities we focus on the following learning behaviours to support them in becoming successful life-long learners, developing skills which will support them through all stages of life. Our learning behaviours are central to our teaching, and we use these images to make learning behaviours more explicit to the children, the school community and parents alike.
We believe that the explicit teaching and recognition of learning behaviours can support behaviour and engagement, developing a positive climate for learning and our images here help the children in remembering them.
Confident Cheetah . Confidence is a skill which develops over time with nurture and encouragement, the correct level of challenge offered to children and a positive ethos within the classroom and across school. Confidence develops hand in hand with increased experience and exposure to the other learning behaviours.
Resilient Rabbit. We want to see children learning from mistakes and seeing that having to rethink an aspect of their learning is a positive and a challenge in order to further improve; resilience is about picking themselves up after a setback and being confident enough to give it another go.
Curious Cat. Curiosity provides an enthusiasm and thirst for learning. We develop this by planning an exciting curriculum and lessons with children learning by doing, using assessment for learning in order to challenge our learners appropriately and working with the children’s interests and questions.
Co-operative Chimp. Our children are provided with many opportunities for cooperative working in the classroom and across school. The skills required for successful cooperation are made explicit to the children and are practised during activities.
Independent Penguin. We encourage the children to want to find out for themselves, to solve their own problems in maths and science for example and area self confident enough to make their own decisions. Equally we develop the skills and knowledge for pupils to work through any social difficulties they may have with a peer or a friend, enabling them to work through and find solutions for themselves.
Persevering Puppy. the children are taught how to try different approaches if something isn’t working and not to give up at the first hurdle. We work on teaching children that it is OK to be ‘stuck’ because they have the strategies to overcome it. Children start to relish and thrive on challenge!
