Building Learning Power

You may have heard your little person talking to you about resilience and being a resilient learner this week. This is part of a whole school initiative to "build learning power" taken from Professor Guy Claxon.

We are looking at the learning powers, resilience, relationships, resourcefulness and responsibility. Each power is represented by a colour and we have glass stones to represent them. The colours are; red, purple, clear and blue. The children are encouraged to put a stone in the matching jar when they feel they have used that learning power or indeed the class has collectively! We then discuss the jars at the end of the week as to our most/least successful learning power and our next steps.

At the moment I am introducing one power a week to build up to the full 4. We have started on resilience and are on to relationships next. We have been using short film clips, songs and discussions to introduce and understand what each learning power means.

If you would like to find our more here is a link to Guy Claxton's website.
http://www.buildinglearningpower.com/about/professor-guy-claxton/