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Your Children, our students Growing Together Carrington Primary School is committed to building a positive future by developing life long learners who value themselves and others. Carrington Primary School is child-centred, characterised by a clear understanding that the core business of the school is learning; learning to think, learning to be good citizens, learning to be literate and numerate, learning to respect and be respected.
We work towards achieving this by building positive relationships with children in a safe, supportive and caring environment.
Our Welfare and Discipline approach across the school underpins many of the values we strive to achieve. We believe that children learn effectively when the environment is stimulating and supportive. Each child is encouraged to develop social skills, independence, self-confidence, consideration and respect for others. The school promotes an awareness of consequences for actions. Students are encouraged to share the responsibility for their own learning, enabling them to reach their full potential. Learning experiences are structured to meet all students' individual needs. Achievements are promoted, recognised and celebrated.
Students at Carrington are encouraged to use a variety of tools to further develop their thinking including: HABITS OF MIND
A Habit of Mind is knowing how to behave intelligently when you DON'T know the answer.
A Habit of Mind means having a disposition toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems, the answers to which are not immediately known: dichotomies, dilemmas, enigmas and uncertainties.
Employing Habits of Mind requires drawing forth certain patterns of intellectual behavior that produce powerful results. They are a composite of many skills, attitudes and proclivities including:
Value: Choosing to employ a pattern of intellectual behaviors rather than other, less productive patterns.
Inclination: Feeling the tendency toward employing a pattern of intellectual behaviors.
Sensitivity: Perceiving opportunities for, and appropriateness of employing the pattern of behavior.
Capability: Possessing the basic skills and capacities to carry through with the behaviors.
Commitment: Constantly striving to reflect on and improve performance of the pattern of intellectual behavior.
The 16 Habits of Mind identified by Costa and Kallick include:
- Persisting
- Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision
- Managing impulsivity
- Gathering data through all senses
- Listening with understanding and empathy
- Creating, imagining, innovating
- Thinking flexibly
- Responding with wonderment and awe
- Thinking about thinking (metacognition)
- Taking responsible risks
- Striving for accuracy
- Finding humor
- Questioning and posing problems
- Thinking interdependently
- Applying past knowledge to new situations
- Remaining open to continuous learning
BLOOM'S TAXONOMYBloom's Taxonomy was constructed as a means to develop the higher order thinking skills of students by taking them through a sequential hierarchial progression. Each level builds on the skills of the level before BLOOM'S STRATEGY | EXAMPLES OF QUESTION STEMS |
| Knowledge (Remember)
| What did............................? Who invented.......................? When did............................? | Comprehension (Understand)
| Who do you think.................? What was the main idea..........? Can you briefly outline............? | Application (Apply)
| How could you illustrate..........? What questions would you ask..? | Analysis (Analyse)
| How is ..........similar to .......? What was the underlining theme of......? | Synthesis (Create)
| What would happen if...........? How many ways can you........? | Evaluation (Evaluate)
| How effective is.................? What do you think about.......? Justify your position. |
6 THINKING HATS
This systematic method of thinking devloped by Edward De Bono helps students think through a problem to find creative solutions. The White Hat
The White Hat calls for information known or needed. The Red HatThe Red Hat signifies feelings, hunches and intuition. The Black Hat
The Black Hat is judgment -- the devil's advocate or why something may not work. The Yellow Hat
The Yellow Hat symbolizes brightness and optimism.
The Green Hat
The Green Hat focuses on creativity: the possibilities, alternatives and new ideas. The Blue Hat
The Blue Hat is used to manage the thinking process.
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