Project

What is a Role Model?

Year 1

In ‘What is a role model?’, students explored their new role as the oldest children in the school.

Over the course of this project, the students made welcome cards for their Reception buddies, designed surveys to find out more about them, created a picture frame out of wood and decorated them according to their buddy’s request! The frame was then exhibited at the Reception self-portrait exhibition with their buddy’s self-portrait. We also learnt about different artists throughout the project including, Kusama and Seurat. 

Curriculum links

Head

Problem solving and critical thinking

Foundational skills

Taking control of your learning

Heart

Care and respect

Working collaboratively

Happiness in body and mind

Hand

Creativity and the arts

Expert skills

Design thinking

Underpinned by our seven
key principles...

We choose problems that matter: to us, to our families, to our community, and to members of the global community. The problems we seek to solve are authentic and important.
Exploring problems that matter
We work on our projects in collaborative partnership with peers, children and adults, and experts from within and beyond the community. Our partnerships enhance and deepen our learning.
Building learning partnerships
We learn best when we work together, talking about our learning and sharing ideas. In our classrooms you will hear lots of productive talk as we explore and debate learning.
Oracy (Learning through talk)
We learn through play and enjoy exploratory learning. We practice curiosity and risk taking, play roles and tell stories. Our projects offer playful self-driven learning experiences in a range of settings, but especially outdoors in nature.
Learning through purposeful play
We know that we can all be challenged, think deeply and solve tricky problems if we work together. We can all learn from each other, even if we are achieving at different levels.
Everyone thinks hard
We practise and perfect the skills we need for our projects over time, being persistent and resilient when our practice becomes challenging. We see mistakes as learning opportunities. We believe the learning journey is as important as the outcome.
Practising our skills
We strive to produce beautiful and valuable work which addresses important issues in our proiects. Our products or performances are reworked and redrafted until we are proud of them and ready to use them to trigger learning conversations.
Producing something beautiful & valuable

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