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Growth mindset
A growth mindset is a term developed by Carol Dweck in her studies of human motivation. A growth mindset is defined as believing that your abilities and talents can be developed through dedication and hard work and that struggles help us to become better learners.
Guide to Cognitive Assessments
Cognition refers to the mental process of acquiring and understanding information from your senses. It involves thinking, understanding language, expressing language, memory and attention. It is vital to children and young people’s development and learning in school.
Intensive Interaction
Intensive Interaction was originally developed by Melanie Nind along with Dave Hewett. It helps children and adults who are at the early stages of communication of developing social and communication skills.
Key adult
Key relationships can and do make a difference! A key adult can support children with attachment difficulties to develop trusting relationships and act as a safe base or an ‘Additional Attachment Figure’ in school. These adults can provide for opportunities for adaptation and recovery for children in the context of consistent, ‘good enough’ relationships.
Looked After Children
What our consultations aim to do to ensure the needs of Looked After Children (LAC) are met.
Metacognitive strategies
Metacognition approaches to teaching aim to support pupils to think about their own learning and the learning process; teaching them strategies for planning, monitoring and evaluating their learning. Many have described this as “thinking about thinking” or “learning to learn”.
PACE approach
PACE is an open and engaged approach for children who have experienced trauma, designed to promote safety, develop trust and enhance understanding and regulation of emotions.
Paired Reading
Paired reading is an effective, evidence-based method of helping children progress in their reading. This intervention can be used with a child of any age to improve their reading fluency and comprehension skills. It involves a combination of reading together and the child reading independently.
PERMA
The PERMA model was originally developed by Martin Seligman in 2011; a 5-strand model for happiness and well-being which can be applied to help us thrive and flourish. It allows adults working with young people to support wellbeing by focussing on strengths rather than difficulties.
Planning for change – October 2024
Editable - Planning for change - October 2024
Precision Teaching
Precision teaching is a structured teaching method that’s designed to improve the accuracy and fluency of reading, spelling and maths (however can be used in other subject areas).
Reciprocal Reading
The Reciprocal Teaching Method, developed by Palincsar and Brown is an effective form of comprehension strategy instruction. Children learn to read strategically by partnering with teachers and mentors who demonstrate and make explicit the thinking processes used to construct meaning from text.

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