Values and Growth Mindset
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For all learners, it is important that they understand the difficulties of the learning process and value the effort and resilience required to overcome a challenge. When children have a positive outlook and understand that they can achieve what may seem difficult, we call this a Growth Mindset. This does not just happen in school lessons, but can be applied to every aspect of their lives: riding a bike, mastering a football skill, learning times tables and baking a cake to name but a few. To help embed the necessary stages of a Growth Mindset, we use the nmemonic of being a STRETCHy learner. We aim to teach children that self-belief is the vital first step, otherwise you are much more likely to want to give up at the first sign of things becoming difficult. Trying Hard is an obvious step, but we need to work hard if we are going to find and then overcome thet things that we find challenging. Resilience is so important so that we don't become discouraged when we find things tough. This also goes back to our self-belief and knowing that we can achieve if we keep working at it. We need to Embrace Errors because they help us find out what we do not know. If we never made mistakes, we must only ever be doing things we can already do. Being scared of mistakes will ultinately stop us trying new things. After we have welcomed our errors, we need to Take-on Feedback so that we can learn how to correct them and understand our errors. If we do this, we become more comptent and eventually we will master the new learning or skill. Our feedback can come from our marked work, from an adult who helps us, or we may even see it for ourselves in the results. The most important thing is that you get good feedback on how to overcome any errors. Our last stage is to keep on Challenging ourselves to improve either in them same learning / skill or to move onto the next one. That we way we keep on progressing. |
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Our core Values are Kindness, Respect and Responsibility We see these core values as umbrella terms that encapsulate many more values that we view as desirable. If we can support children to live our core values, they will adopt many of the values that underpin each other, for example: Kindness: Generosity, Charity and Patience Respect: Tolerance, Equality and Inclusivity Responsibility: Trustworthiness, dedication and community-spirit |
