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Wormley Super Social Learners

We promote the Social Learning Approach: The Wormley Way. The Social Learning Approach is the school community coming together to try and maximise every child’s learning potential. It’s about developing children as happy, engaged life-long learners; not just good students. It’s about children feeling in control and taking ownership of their own learning.

The aims of the Social Learning Approach are to:

  • Allow children to grow in awareness of themselves and others
  • Equip the children with the knowledge and skills so they can successfully navigate the social world they are a part of
  • Maximise learning potential in school and increase children’s participation and engagement in their families and communities

Wormley Social Learning Approach

 

An important part of the Social Learning Approach is evolving the ethos of the school and promoting the idea that children are partners in their learning.

The Agents

To teach the children about what it means to be a ‘Super Social Leaner’ we have created The Agent Squad. There are 7 learning agents and 4 wellbeing agents which we consider essential for the ‘Wormley Learner’. Each agent has it’s own story, characteristics and symbols. Each story is told through a short movie. The Agents aim to make it fun and memorable to become a better learner.  . Meet The Learning Agents in the ‘Deploy Your Agents’ film.

Agent Curious

Agent Considerate

Agent Resilience

Agent Creative

Agent Reflective

Agent Confident

Agent Strategy

 

 

Deploy Your Agents!

 

Examples of social learning in action

  • Enrichment days
  • Pupil Parliament
  • Projects
  • Collective worship
  • Rights and Responsibilities
  • Staff training and team building
  • Teacher Led Development Work
  • Forest School
  • Inter-house competitions

Enrichment Days

To explore The Agents and immerse the children in social learning, we dedicate days of the year where the focus is on particular characteristics of The Agents.

For example:

  • Living History Day
  • Hello Yellow- World Mental Health Day
  • Music Day
  • Love Your Planet Day
  • Heroes of Black History