SMCS & LLS

Learning and life skills

Learning and Life Skills support our character development and skills for learning. They programme threads across the curriculum.  

The teaching of Learning and Life Skills is through a coherent set of learning units (adopted from the Edison Curriculum with strong links to the Connected Curriculum). The units develop: social and personal competencies, thinking and communication across six units.

        Learning Together  

  • Teamwork 
  • Roles  
  • Collaboration  

   It’s up to me 

  • Independence  
  • Choices  
  • Responsibilities  

Becoming better learners  

  • Goals  
  • Ownership 
  • Persistence

Knowing me, Knowing you                              

  • Sense of self and others  
  • Empathy  
  • Relationships  

Think, Think, Think  

  • Reasoning and enquiry  
  • Ask and answer questions  
  • Draw conclusions  

Speaking and Listening   

  • Turn taking 
  • Discussions  
  • Talk partners 

SMSC

SMSC is the overarching umbrella that encompasses Personal Development across the curriculum.  

It is the golden thread through the curriculum supporting Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural development so that our children think about:  

  • The kind of people they aspire to be  
  • The kind of world they aspire to create  
  • The kind of education we aspire to provide  

 British values and Academy values are essential.