Learning Environment
A positive and nurturing environment allows girls to explore learning in their own way and lessons are planned to stimulate curiosity and a thirst for knowledge. Teaching seeks to build upon the excellent foundations laid in the Reception Class. Our girls acquire excellent reading skills early on and it is a love of literature that we endeavour to foster. The curriculum is engaging and exciting, whilst recognising the importance of core subjects such as literacy, mathematics and science.
Students learn from an early age the value of being numerate and we have a carefully planned syllabus, which is designed to maximise the potential of each child. We are developing a mastery approach, which emphasises depth of learning, fluency in number facts and development of problem solving skills. These are the same areas of focus, which are exhibited by the mathematically highest achieving educational jurisdictions in the world.
Through a variety of teaching activities and different learning experiences, students are encouraged to develop an enquiring, mathematical mind, moving beyond simply learning by rote to a thorough grasp and understanding of the concepts. The classroom is seen as a place of learning. Students are encouraged to have a mindset that effort creates success, skills can be developed, mistakes are development opportunities and resilience is tantamount. There is an emphasis on depth of understanding. Each concept taught is broken down into small logical steps and taught in different ways, often using concrete experiences and manipulatives, before moving on to pictorial representations and finally symbolic representations.
