Learner Attributes

How have we been using these in our classroom this month?

In these photos we were taking what we knew and trying out the learning by acting out the food chain.We all use the learner attributes - Mr Hani and Miss Sumah use them too. They are reflecting.

Risk-taker: we have been taking risks and if we made a mistake, we learned from them. Ms Wolbers encourages us to speak out when we don't know so we can work together to make understanding. We see this happening lots in problem solving for maths.

Communicators: a communicator is someone who shares ideas. We use this in almost all subjects to discuss and find out what other people think then how that fits with what we think.

Knowledgeable: when we go back and use ideas that we’ve already got. We think we used 'being knowledgeable' a lot in English/literacy when we were working on persuasive writing and speech making.

Open-minded: we have been connecting lots of ideas to come up with something new for example taking what we knew about food chains and making a model for art, same with making an enclosure - using our research ideas.

Inquirer: we have been inquirers in Inquiry. This means we have been asking lots of questions and trying to find answers.

Thinkers: we have been thinkers about our thinking! What was difficult? What was a strength? What have we improved on? What have we learned? We all reflected on our learning this month asking those questions as we completed peices of work. Sometimes we asked those questions during the study as well.

By : Lama, Elodie and Emma.