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The nature of work has changed: Once reliable constants have now become galloping variables. The acquisition of knowledge is no longer the major role of education, if it ever were. With the internet, knowledge is now in the air and students need skills which will enable them to pluck it, sift it, decide quickly what is worth retaining and what should be discarded; the skills of synthesis, analysis and prioritizing. The emphasis needs to be on process, finding and using the
connectiions between knowledge from different disciplines, adaptability, avoiding closure without considering all options.

The education we offer requires a teaching methodology to facilitate the acquisition of these skills. We need to move away from the teacher directed encyclopaedic, rote-learning approach to a learner centred approach, which promotes dialogue, questioning, lateral thinking and independent learning. We want your children to be knowledgeable but more important are the skills and attitudes that they hold. Traditional assessments of ability focus on knowledge. The child who can learn and repeat knowledge has been successful in a traditional classroom and perhaps in their working life. To be a school that responsibly prepares our students for the 21 Century we must move away from the constraints imposed by this box. Allowing creativity will become a central focus of our work as teachers with your children. Learning these skills, promoted through our chosen curriculum, will help teachers to be more capable of responding to inidividual learning styles and specific needs. We will promote and not close down “creativity” for the value that it brings to each individual allowing and not restricting learning and exploration.

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