CoMPasS Although we cannot gather together as a whole school it is wonderful that we can still have a Celebration Assembly to celebrate the achievements of our amazing children. Each class award a learning superhero for the week, a child who has demonstrated values of our learning superheroes. The Learning Superheroes have evolved from a review of how we teach the learning process to the children. Teaching children about the process of learning is vitally important in order to support them in developing positive habits of learning and thus enabling the children to become confident, motivated learners. We believe that it is important that our children understand
There is a link to a short film describing this by Dr John Spencer https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=HZrUWvfU6VU At St Peter’s 2-8 we celebrate a Value Champion for the week. Throughout the school, rather than work to a set of rules imposed on the children, we cultivate our school values, which grow inside our children offering them a guide and expectations of behaviour. Our school values are carried through the St Peter’s adventure developing a strong framework for life. The values are displayed across the school in every learning space and you can see them below. Mrs Hayden awards music awards and Miss Flockhart awards Physical Education awards. It is always wonderful to hear each teacher describe the reasons for their choices reinforcing positive choices and behaviour from all of the children. Interestingly, the world economic forum in their future of jobs report state the top 10 key skills are below. The skills of problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, that are at the heart of our school are more important than ever. This Alwin Toffler quote from the beginning of the 1970s seemed radical and futuristic at the time, but in the present seems to have renewed relevance. It has been another fabulous week at St Peter’s (2 -8). The children have had a busy time and are thoroughly enjoying their learning. It is great to
how to learn effectively and that they can select specific tools to help them with their learning. Each one of our learning superheroes exhibits a learning superpower. Ricki Resourceful, Rita Resilience, Collaborative Twins, Reflective Rory. We chose to use the Learning Superheroes to help the children to identify their learning superpowers and to motivate and engage them. This is based on Metacognition which in a nutshell is being able to think about your own thinking and purposefully plan and direct learning. Research and evidence shows when children develop metacognitive skills their academic achievement increases. If you would like to read more, please see the Education Endowment Report which has formed the basis of our professional learning over the past two years. The ethos of the school is guided by educational evidence and research. https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/ public/files/Publications/Metacognition/ EEF_Metacognition_and_selfregulated_learning.pdf
observe children at Forest School, in the swimming pool, playing outside in the outdoor spaces, going on local walks, pop up classrooms, singing beautifully in the Rayson Room with Mrs Hayden, playing musical instruments and enjoying their learning spaces inside their inspirational classrooms. Enjoy the newsletter with the most amazing photographs – thank you to all the staff for their contributions and Georgina Hallgate for putting this together. Finally, I would like to leave you with a story about our most wonderful cleaning team at school written by Beth Harrison. They are working incredibly hard keeping our classrooms and learning environments clean throughout the day. A huge thank you to every single one of them. Have a wonderful weekend. , Best wishes,