Revel Reflection Report

It is integral to my vision that all children will make outstanding progress at Revel. In my view, this progress should be made in the children’s spiritual, social, moral, and cultural education as well as in the more traditional academic subjects. The way to achieve this is through creating a ‘learning culture’ in the school in which all stakeholders such as the Church, teachers, support staff, the wider community and first and foremost the children themselves, regard learning as an enjoyable, lifelong process which has intrinsic value. The outcome of such an education should be far more than ensuring that the children are ‘secondary ready’; it should guarantee that children are confident individuals who have the independence needed to take responsibility for their own learning and behaviour. An outstanding education would enable children to make informed choices concerning social and ethical issues, develop their spiritual and cultural awareness, and provide them with the academic …show more content…
These need to be built upon the children’s experiences and therefore I would wish to continue the work already being done at Revel in making the most of the local environment and history to provide meaningful learning experiences. I would wish to use the concepts of ‘hooks’ and ‘end products’ (see application form) to extend this idea of experiential and purposeful learning. I believe that lessons, on the whole, need to be both motivating and challenging, but that children also need to understand that sometimes skills just need to be learnt so that they can be utilised in other contexts. The planning of the curriculum and individual lessons needs to take into account the prior experiences and achievement of individual children but differentiation should allow for the narrowing of any gaps and not provide a ceiling to