Mayfield Primary SchoolOur Curriculum: Classroom Craft - How We Learn
WELCOME TO CLASSROOM CRAFT
We have worked to establish two clear areas within our approach to learning and teaching. The Curriculum Craft 'What We Learn' is covered amidst the extensive subject and year group pages within this website. The Classroom Craft 'How We Learn' is equally covered across the website including pages such as 'Adapting To Meet Need' and 'Let's Talk'. Yet we want to highlight further the strategies and methods that work to meet daily starting point need and look at a learner's eye as our starting point.
It is imperative that you read our CLASSROOM CRAFT (TEACHING & LEARNING POLICY/APPROACH). Downloadable at the base of this page.
The above document highlight every method, its intention and its rationale. Whilst everything contained within this document has to be open to professional discretion around deployment and style, it is the shared philosophy that creates a consistent approach that we believes makes small but important differences to our children who often lack that starting point readiness and as a result can then create confidence, active purpose and front row learning which can foster independence. At least greater that we would otherwise have seen.
Remember as our vision states, we are aiming to reduce and eradicate as often as possible 'learned helplessness' and instead foster 'active purpose'.
Marking - Differentation - Adaptation - Class Layout - Presentation - Methods For Recording Learning
These aspects listed above, and more, are contained within Classroom Craft. What makes Classroom Craft work above all is the agreement towards these methods, the fact that they are reviewed, updated, added to or even removed if we see need and trend changing and equally that there is the professional leeway to make this work for each teacher in each class. Therefore acting as a suite of agreed, meaningful strategies but with the common sense of personal, professional adaptation and deployment. It is policy but it should also be a responsive tool for teacher's based upon the needs of the learner at that time.
We have spent extensive time training every member of our team in these strategies. We have modelled and trialled methods. Demonstrated lessons. Team taught units and used our teaching reviews to monitor impact over many years since our current leadership team came together under our current headteacher. These strategies are the day-to-day 'living of our core intent' and we believe have been tried and honed to meet the needs of our learners as they gather the knowledge through our curriculum.
Our leaders spend much of their time monitoring these systems to ensure they are as consistent as possible across each year group and flow into the subsequent year group - creating familiarity and comfort around expectations for our children as they move from class to class.
It is essential this document is read to understand so much about how intent leads to implementation in our learning environment.
Here are a few example pages.
