Learning Essentials

‘Visible learning essentials’ utilised in Hamstead Hall Academy

Supporting learners to make progress through adaptive quality first teaching

We know our students:

• By using our 5 core principles to develop effective learners (Behaviour for Learning)
• By using data rich seating plans, including student profiles to identify and support learners (vulnerable first)
• Using the praise and reward system and adopting an emotional ‘trauma informed/ relational’ approach

We help our students make sense of new knowledge:

• By explicitly teaching vocabulary and encouraging reading using the register continuum
• By introducing new knowledge in a logically sequenced and gradual way
• By modelling using the ‘I- WE-YOU’ process
• By ‘teaching to the top’ and providing scaffolding to those who need it

We help our students learn and retain knowledge

• By using spaced and retrieval practice activities
• By giving opportunities for deliberate practice with clear success criteria within the T+L cycle
• By using our curriculum maps and learning journeys to help students recall prior learning

We give our students the feedback they need to improve

• By checking for understanding using a range of quality formative assessments
• By sharing success criteria linked to core knowledge and procedural knowledge
• By ensuring students upgrade their work in purple pen, using whole class feedback sheets and other AFL strategies