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Primary School HPL Term 1 Review by Lee Hawkins, HPL Coordinator As HPL Lead, I often speak with staff and students about what High Performance Learning looks like in school and how we can use the values, attitudes, and attributes to our advantage. With this in mind, I thought I would share some of those conversations with you. Each of these have taken place this academic year, since September. What better place to start than the beginning? I take you back to Week 1, when Sofia Peli, Eva Popescu and I, discussed exactly what ‘HPL’ is and how it is used. What is HPL? Sofia Peli (6M): HPL stands for High Performing Learning and it helps us reach our potential.
Eva Popescu (6M): HPL helps us understand the qualities, skills and attitudes that people use when they are learning. It’s something that all learners do without knowing.
Sofia Peli (6M): But when we know what it is and we learn about these things, it helps us progress and become even better learners.
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What does HPL look like around the Primary School? Sofia Peli (6M): It’s everywhere! We have Star of the Week assemblies and students are
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always rewarded based on how well they have shown some of the HPL qualities, skills and attitudes. Eva Popescu (6M): Oh yeah, and then we have monthly HPL awards to celebrate students that have been really good.
Sofia Peli (6M): and we use it in almost every lesson, too. We choose one of the qualities, skills and attitudes and reflect on how we used it in the lesson.
Eva Popescu (6M): Yeah, we write it in our books beside the objective for that lesson. I really enjoy catching up with the students and picking their brains to see how it is that they learn and to hear a student’s perspective. However, it is equally important to her from those that teach, even more so when the setting is not the classroom. In October I spoke with Mr Wilson & Mr Morrison about how the student’s displayed the HPL values, attitudes, and attributes, while on a residential trip to the mountains…