How can we support our learners to achieve?

I'd like the Curriculum Champions to think about how we can support learning and achievement at Highfield in the 21st Century.

This is quite a daunting task as supporting learning and achievement cuts across so many different areas.

From the relationships between teachers and students in the classroom which encourage progress and good behaviour...

Raising self-esteem through rewards and praise...

Providing enrichment activities and experiences which help 'build' the whole child....

Safeguarding and protecting our young people....

Ensuring that any special educational needs are met, from learning difficulies to the gifted and talented and everything in between....

... to supporting and engaging parents.

The list goes on!

We cannot do all this in one short session (we'd struggle to address even half of the list in the entire time away from school!)

I'd like us to focus on how we provide 'Student Support' at Highfield by looking at how we deliver 'Student Support' as part of the timetabled curriculum and whether we can do it better.

To prepare for this, you might like to think about what we ought teach, when we should teach it and who, in school, is should have responsibility.

Watch this space!

I was particulalrly interested in this line Sara

"Providing enrichment activities and experiences which help 'build' the whole child...."

How do we offer this enrichment but without a cost to the timetabled year and the GCSE courses we run?

I will be interesting to see how our group takle this problem.

Peter