We have been awarded the prestigious High Performance Learning (HPL) World Class School Award, which recognises the very best schools across the globe. We are delighted to be recognised as a school at the forefront of educational thinking that has met the demanding standards of the HPL Award and fully embraced the HPL philosophy.
We have adopted the unique HPL teaching and learning framework to make even greater gains for students by helping them develop the cognitive skills, values, attitudes and attributes they need for academic achievement and success in their future.
If you want to learn more about High Performance Learning, please visit www.highperformancelearning.co.uk
High Performance Learning (HPL) the BSA way!
At BSA we have embraced HPL as a philosophy and embarked on this exciting educational journey. As part of this journey, we have adapted the core skills and attitudes associated with HPL and made them bespoke to our unique context. Following recent academic research linked to growth mindsets that there is ‘room at the top’ for more challenging work for all students rather than targeting purely the better performing students. We endeavour to create activities through the deliberate, frequent, regular practice of advanced thinking skills and appropriate learner behaviours linked to the HPL philosophy. We believe that we owe it to our students to enable as many as possible to go as far as possible, thus lifting the lid on learning at the top and enabling them to be more successful in challenging 21st-century world.
We approach these differently throughout the school based on the needs and skills of our students.
Pre-Prep HPL Tracker
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2 Year Cycle |
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Year A |
Year B |
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Respectful |
Independent |
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Organised |
Communicators |
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Ambitious |
Enquirers |
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Resilient |
Analytical |
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Creative |
Reflective |
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Cooperative |
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Year A Skills Attitudes
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Concerned for , Society, Other People and the Environment |
Open-minded |
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Strategy Planning |
Attention to Detail & Accuracy |
Problem Solving |
Organised |
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Self-Regulation |
Risk Taking |
Practice |
Ambitious with High Standards |
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Hardworking |
Resilience & Perseverance
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Creative Thinking |
Applying Ideas & Concepts |
Creative and Enterprising |
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Seeing Alternative Perspectives |
Collaborative |
Year B Skills Attitudes
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Speed and Accuracy |
Automaticity |
Independent |
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Oral Communication |
Intellectual Confidence |
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Meta-cognition |
Enquiring, Questioning and Reflective |
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Seeing Patterns & Making Comparisons |
Critical Thinking |
Analysing |
Formulating a conclusion/ Explanation |
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Connection Finding |
Abstract Thinking |
Intellectual Playfulness |
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Review |
Prep and Senior School
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HPL Skills |
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1) Meta-Cognition |
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2) Self-Regulation |
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3) Abstract Thinking |
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4) Seeing Patterns & making comparisons |
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5) Connection Finding |
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6) Analysing |
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7) Critical Thinking |
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8) Formulating a Conclusion / Explanation. |
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9) Seeing Alternative Perspectives |
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10) Applying Ideas and Concepts |
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11) Strategy Planning |
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12) Problem Solving |
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13) Attention to Detail and Accuracy |
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14) Intellectual Playfulness |
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15) Creative Thinking. |
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16) Automaticity |
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17) Speed and Accuracy |
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18) Oral Communication |
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HPL ATTITUDES |
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1) Collaborative |
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2) Concerned for Society, other People and the Environment |
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3) Intellectual Confidence |
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4) Enquiring, Questionning and Reflective |
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5) Creative and Enterprising |
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6) Open-minded |
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7) Risk-taking |
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8) Practice |
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9) Resilience & Perseverance |
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10) Flexible Thinking |
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11) Ambitious with high standards |
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12) Hardworking |
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13) Independent |
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14) Organised |
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Autumn 2 term |
Spring Term |
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Skills: |
Attitude: |
Skills: |
Attitude: |
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Year 3 |
Meta-cognition Making comparisons |
Independent |
speed and accuracy analysing |
hardworking |
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Year 4 |
Applying ideas Automacity |
Independent |
Critical Thinking Speed and Accuracy |
Hard work |
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Year 5 |
Intellectual Playfulness Formulating a conclusion / explanation |
Intellectual confidence |
speed and accuracy critical thinking |
Hard working |
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Year 6 |
Intellectual playfulness Oral communication |
Enquiring, questioning and reflective |
Critical Thinking Speed and Accuracy |
Hard work |
BSA has evolved since the implementation of this new forward-looking philosophy. We endeavour to systematically grow minds into high performance. School is Primetime for growing minds. We are promoting the cognitive characteristics that you need to be successful in school and beyond. You can see a wide range of pictures taken below throughout the school showing the successful opportunities created since embarking on the HPL journey.
BSA High Performance Learning conversations for Parents
Avoid calling your child clever as this can give them an over-inflated opinion of themselves. Focus on effort, process and making mistakes with your children:
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What HPL skills or attitudes are you using in...(Subject)….? How does it help you to learn?
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Don’t worry if you don’t understand something right away.
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I noticed that you have put in a lot of effort in your …. today. In particular...
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What have you learned from your mistakes?
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It is okay to make mistakes, we learn from them.
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I know you can. If you don't try you won't know that you can. Which part do you find a little challenging?
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How can we fix it?
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What can we use to help if we are stuck to get un-stuck?
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What a great mistake to make. How can we learn from it?
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You cannot do it...YET! (the power of YET)
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You can do it, believe me.
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If you do not try then never know what you could do.
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'a good mistake'
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Great piece on …. what a wonderful improvement!
Visual promotion of HPL
And the following 2 strands
