As you will know, as a school we continue to work on supporting our children develop and use their Learning Powers. Learning is an active process, involving thought, perseverance and challenge and to be good learner you need to be a risk taker; able to be brave and tackle the unknown, knowing by doing so, you will learn something new.
Yesterday I walked through the school and talked with different children about their learning and what Learning Powers they were using to help them to succeed.
One child showed me a beautiful book they had made about the moon landing. I asked if it had been an easy task. They said no, it had taken a long time to get to the stage of putting all the pieces together to create the book and it was hard work. I asked them to tell me more. They told me that at the start of the learning sequence, they had found lots of facts but had then had to put them in chronological order and this had proved challenging, but they had persevered and collaborated with others to get all the facts in order.
They then said the first version of the written piece was hard work as they needed to remember to write things in order, remember to use specialist vocabulary and remember how to structure the language needed to write a report of this kind. They said, “In my first draft I made LOTS of mistakes”. I said that must have been hard to see and asked if they just gave up. “No!”, they said, “I needed to look at my mistakes and learn from them, which is what I did. I moved things around and checked my spellings. It took a long time.” I asked how they felt about their finished product.
“I’m proud of myself. I am happy I didn’t give up because if I had I wouldn’t have this book.”
I could see how proud they were of their achievement, it had not been easy, and I think that is what made it so important to the child.
I asked what Learning Powers they had used to achieve success and they said: persevering, planning, risk taking and collaboration. Their working partner next to them said, “And organisation, you needed to be really organised too, and you were. Your book is great.”
It was such a lovely conversation and not only showed how Learning Powers are supporting the child to achieve but also shows two of our School Values: Success and Aspiration and Attitudes to Learning, in practise.
For more information on our Learning Powers please visit our website and find out more.
Have a lovely weekend
Mrs Pipe
Yesterday I walked through the school and talked with different children about their learning and what Learning Powers they were using to help them to succeed.
One child showed me a beautiful book they had made about the moon landing. I asked if it had been an easy task. They said no, it had taken a long time to get to the stage of putting all the pieces together to create the book and it was hard work. I asked them to tell me more. They told me that at the start of the learning sequence, they had found lots of facts but had then had to put them in chronological order and this had proved challenging, but they had persevered and collaborated with others to get all the facts in order.
They then said the first version of the written piece was hard work as they needed to remember to write things in order, remember to use specialist vocabulary and remember how to structure the language needed to write a report of this kind. They said, “In my first draft I made LOTS of mistakes”. I said that must have been hard to see and asked if they just gave up. “No!”, they said, “I needed to look at my mistakes and learn from them, which is what I did. I moved things around and checked my spellings. It took a long time.” I asked how they felt about their finished product.
“I’m proud of myself. I am happy I didn’t give up because if I had I wouldn’t have this book.”
I could see how proud they were of their achievement, it had not been easy, and I think that is what made it so important to the child.
I asked what Learning Powers they had used to achieve success and they said: persevering, planning, risk taking and collaboration. Their working partner next to them said, “And organisation, you needed to be really organised too, and you were. Your book is great.”
It was such a lovely conversation and not only showed how Learning Powers are supporting the child to achieve but also shows two of our School Values: Success and Aspiration and Attitudes to Learning, in practise.
For more information on our Learning Powers please visit our website and find out more.
Have a lovely weekend
Mrs Pipe