Learning at Wren
At Wren Academy we want to develop our students into lifelong learners, equipped for the challenges of living in a rapidly changing society. Inside and outside of the classroom we will intentionally create opportunities for our young people to develop six characteristics (or learning muscles) that we believe will enable them to ‘live life to the full’.
- Resourceful: Solving problems, stewarding resources and exercising creativity
- Relational: Self-aware, empathetic, collaborative and able to recognise boundaries
- Resilient: Showing determination, focus and hope when facing challenges and disappointments
- Reverent: Appreciating awe and wonder, valuing others and having humility
- Reflective: Thoughtful, strategic and willing to revise plans
- Redemptive: Forgiving, learning from mistakes and living in a sustainable way
Our vision for the formation of these 6Rs are drawn from our Christian ethos and our intentionfor students to become effective lifelong learnerswhich is:
- based on belief that the skill of learning can itself be learned
- about the whole person – qualities, values, self-image, relationships, skills and strategies
- about better life chances for young people
All lessons will be planned with specific learning objectives to develop one or more of the learning muscles. In this way there is an explicit focus on how learning will be taking place, as well as what learning takes place. Lessons will be regularly observed by teachers and student observers who will then discuss what is being learned and how this is taking place.
Learning will be celebrated regularly in assemblies, with an award for student learner of the week and staff learner of the week. The awards will come from a result of nominations by students and staff trained to identify effective learning in all of its forms.