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For context, Killicomaine Junior High School (KJHS) is a co-educational, Key Stage 3 setting for ages 11 to 14. They have been on their Thinking School journey for three years.   With the blessing of senior leadership, it was decided to dedicate a full day to launching KJHS’s version of the

“Antiquated,” the progs say. “Stuck in the Victorian age. Do these people not see what is coming, what is here already? Knowledge is at our fingertips with a click of a button, so why waste your time on that? We should be preparing our learners with the skills of the

We were blown away by Killicomaine’s Junior High School’s ‘Habits of Mind’ launch day. Such incredible creativity and energy – no wonder it was such a huge success. The wonderful Gail Henderson shared how they went about it – a video of her interview with Lorna Gardiner is available to

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The event took place on November 7th and was seamlessly hosted by Ashgrove Primary, Newtownabbey whose senior choir kicked off the event in the most compelling way possible – singing the school’s self composed “My Brain is Amazing”.      Professor Daniel Muijs, Head of the School of Social Sciences, Education and

As a parent (and educator) it forces you to question whether your child’s school is genuinely adding value. We need a robust ‘value add’ accountability metric. In English state secondary schools, Progress 8 attempts to do this, but controversial practices like off-rolling students and the narrow subject focus cause its

If you are looking for insights and inspiration on the use of Thinking Frames for those with learning challenges, as well as how to use them more widely across a school community – from informing parents around access arrangements to departmental curriculum planning – then the full video recording, with

A growing number of these schools have worked with a strategic intent towards becoming recognised Thinking Schools, pursuing the vision for their students to become ‘meta-learners’, i.e. metacognitive, self-regulating learners. This approach draws on research evidence from both the science of learning and implementation science. Schools commit to building a

There are countless reviews out there about what it offers, but it does genuinely seem like a tool which, at the very least, will do significant damage to the already under threat personal tutoring market. Whilst existing personalised AI tutors have been with us for a while already, and the

Perhaps referring to the full title of ‘metacognition and self-regulated learning’ seems rather too much of a mouthful in discussions, as indeed it is! Alternatively, there may be a popularised notion that referring to ‘metacognition’ implies inclusion of self-regulation. Whatever the reason for the omission or oversight, for a Thinking School

At Stanley Park Infants, our school’s identity as an Advanced Accredited Thinking School underpins every decision we make, from how we teach phonics to how we scaffold story writing. Since the reintroduction of Talk for Writing across Reception to Year 2, we’ve seen a deepening of our pupils’ metacognitive awareness,