Learning and Life Skills

Learning and Life Skills support our character development and skills for learning. They programme threads across the curriculum.

The teaching of Learning and Life Skills is through a coherent set of learning units (adopted from the Edison Curriculum with strong links to the Connected Curriculum). The units develop: social and personal competencies, thinking and communication across six units.

Learning Together

 

Teamwork 

Roles  

Collaboration 

 

It’s up to me

 

Independence  

Choices  

Responsibilities

  

Becoming Better Learners

  • Goals  

  • Ownership 

  • Persistence

Knowing me, Knowing you

 

Sense of self and others  

Empathy  

Relationships  

Think, Think, Think

 

Reasoning and enquiry  

Ask and answer questions  

Draw conclusions 

  

Speaking and Listening

 

Turn taking 

Discussions  

Talk partners