Learning Council
Learning Council ensure pupils' voices are heard. We believe pupils are the experts about how they learn best!
There are members, from Year 3 to Year 6 that meet regularly to focus on LEARNING at Aerodrome. Their role is to share feedback from their classes to give to staff and make real changes.
Previously, Learning Council have led development about the 'Learning Pit', led assemblies for children and parents as well as develop systems for feedback (see below).
The focus for this year is continuing to develop our understanding of learning behaviours and the language we use to talk about learning. The Learning Council first met to discuss their own views on learning and then designed their own survey. The questions they came up with were:
- How much do you enjoy learning at Aerodrome?
- How important is learning?
- What is your favourite subject?
- Which subject do you find the most challenging?
- What helps you to learn?
- What encourages you or motivates you to learn?
- How independent are you in learning?
- How do you feel when you approach learning?
- A good learner...
- Learning at Aerodrome is...
The Learning Council completed the survey with their peers and here are the results.
Our next step is to share these with the school and meet again.
The Learning Pit!
We asked learners at Aerodrome: What makes a good learner at this school?
After analysing responses, we found out that most learners only thought about behaviour and conduct e.g. 'focus', 'listen to the teacher'. This made Learning Council think... Is this really what learning is? Does this mean that they are learning?
Very few responses considered the learning dispositions or learning behaviours required to be a good learner.
As a Learning Council, a list was created to summarise what some of these learning dispositions could be:
Keep your head high
Don’t give up
Learn with others
Open your eyes to something new
Try again
Use what’s around you
Use what you know
You’ve got the power
We then added these sayings to the metaphor of the Learning Pit to show what happens when we get stuck in our learning.
How can we make assessment capable learners?
Learning Council, looked at WALTs and Success Criteria and how this was used for feedback.
Based on feedback from learners, we made changes to the format and use of the WALTs and Success Criteria in learning. The new arrow WALts should enable learners to articluate:
Where am I going?
How am I doing?
Where next?
