Positive Relationships

Building Collaborative Relationships

Our school strives to enhance each child’s self-esteem; providing a safe and secure environment in which they feel confident to take risks and reach their full potential. Through recognising and celebrating achievement, we encourage every child to view themselves as a successful individual. Below are some examples of the opportunities pupils have had to build positive relationships within our school.

Celebrating Success

Children’s success is celebrated…helping them to recognise their own and others achievements…

Celebrating success builds confidence and raises self-esteem…

Providing Learners With Feedback

We use the Glasllwch Marking Code…

Pupils know when they have achieved the learning objective and how to improve their learning.

 

Pupil Surveys – Marking and Feedback

When asked ‘How important do you think it is to assess your own and others learning?’ pupils comments included…

If you get it wrong it doesn’t matter, it helps you understand… It is interesting to see what others do… Its good because they read it and make a positive comment…

When asked ‘Do you enjoy choosing your own success criteria?’ pupils comments included…

It helps you because you know what people are looking for in good work…I’m more sure of the objective…you get to have a say…you choose what you want… you practice what you need to…

 

Learners as Leaders

School Council, Eco-Council and Learning Squad are involved in evaluating and improving practices within school…

Pupils self-evaluate their contribution as leaders…

…  Pupils form a part of our whole school self-evaluation and improvement process.

Pupil Surveys – Relationships

When asked to choose 3 qualities they think a great teacher should have and say why are these important, comments included…

…Kind…fun…brainy…good at maths and English…be able to teach…

Why?

…To make children happy…because if your happy its more fun…so they can teach.. because they help you…they care…

When asked ‘What makes you want to focus on learning and behave responsibly?’ comments included…

…My feelings…rewards…my work because I want to do well…getting a good education…being able to get a good job…rules because I don’t want to get into trouble…others learning around the classroom…

When asked ‘In your classroom, what makes you want to do your best? Why?’ comments included…

…The learning wall because it encourages you…the teacher because they praise you…because you don’t want to do rubbish work…

Pupils and teachers discuss successful learning and establish with pupils a climate of motivation and engagement in learning.

 

Emotional Intelligence In The Classroom

Children engage in classroom based activities to develop their Emotional Intelligence through SEAL Whole School Themes.  Children develop their Emotional Intelligence so they have a deeper understanding of their own and other’s emotions…

Assembly themes explore aspects of Emotional Intelligence in line with our SEAL themes.

Please look at our SEAL webpage to find out more about our SEAL theme for this half term.