Learning Powers and Steps to Success

The development of our Visible Learning Journey highlighted the need for children to be more active participants in their learning.

62% of P5 pupils identified that they were in charge of their own learning, 29% said their teacher was in charge of their learning, 5% said their parent were in charge and 5% also said that Mrs Fox was in charge of their learning. At this time only 3 out of 21 pupils (14%) could give an accurate definition of what it means to be a Visible Learner.

This group of pupils became the champions for supporting pupils to become more active in their learning. The VL Group have successfully raised awareness of the agreed Langlees Learning Characteristics with pupils and parents through newsflashes and posters shared on Seesaw, supported by Creative specialist.

They worked with VL coaches to create breakdown posters for each learning power and the creative arts specialist to create visuals for each power.  They created Learning Pit posters and supported teaching around strategies and tools children can use to help themselves in their own learning when facing a challenge.

The group created videos for all classes to share to promote and describe each learning power and this was a very powerful medium for other pupils; and kept these descriptions and concepts deeply rooted in their own context.