For a while we have felt something has been missing at Greengates, something to pull together all the great things which are currently embedded in the school curriculum, ethos and life - a common link/language/hook to pull everything together....... Results are good, Value Added is good, great staff team, a varied and interesting curriculum from den building to Ipads..... What was missing?
During our recent Pupil Progress Meetings a common thread became apparent - a fear of failure, an inability to problem solve a problem - a lack of determination in the children's learning.
We had already decided to develop a Forest School curriculum and ethos and are ready to launch in September 2013- this is based around problem solving and collaboration, but again it felt like an add on not a whole school ethos. How could we take the forest schools attitudes and ethos into the rest of the schools learning?
I'd heard a colleague @BryanPHarrison rave about Building Learning Power(BLP) , but had never seen it in action and came across an old university friend @leanneday72 via Bryan who is a consultant for BLP. Through Facebook we agreed to meet, she came down to visit school and the SLT. 10 days later she delivered whole school training and assisted the SLT to devise a school implementation plan. Leanne advised us this was a 2-3 year plan to see wholesale impact.
I am writing this blog a week later and am extremely pleased with how our journey has started....
Timescales
2nd May - Whole school training
3rd and 6th May school closed
12th May first blog post.
The following blogpost describes our first 4 days - keep checking back to follow our journey.
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