Growth Mindset: We develop positive children with a love of learning.

As staff we will always aim to live by:

• Role model a Growth Mindset in class
• Teach Growth Mindset specifically within the timetable
• Provide regular opportunities for children to get stuck and support them to find their own solutions
• Reward effort specifically! Celebrating learning new things
• Nurture an environment where failure is seen as a necessary step. Actively in lessons
• Promote and reinvent the learning powers, esp KS2
• “A week to THRIVE” timetabled at the beginning of every year
• Work to promote a thirst for success when children leave Bushmead
• Model failure to children

We expect children to live by:

• Think about our learning powers in lessons
• Have a go at things like Hector
• Don’t give up with work like. Daisy
• Always try to be curious like Colin
• Keep improving just like Colin
• Understand that getting something wrong is how our brain grows and develops

We expect parents to live by:

• Take a bit of time to understand what it means to have a Growth Mindset
• To try and refer to our learning power characters occasionally at home