Growth Mindsets

This half term, Mrs Fisher and Mr Wilkinson will be leading a series of assemblies focussing on the brain and the importance of having a ‘growth mindset’. This is crucial to the school’s work and it would be very helpful if parents, too, adopted a ‘growth mindset’ attitude and choice of language when discussing school work with their children.  A classic error that parents might make is to reassure a child struggling with maths that “I couldn’t do maths at school either.”  In effect, this creates a ‘fixed mindset’ that is difficult to shift. We also want parents to join with us in really valuing and learning from errors and mistakes.

There is a host of explanatory material related to this on a new Growth Mindset blog being run by the school and this will grow over the coming months: http://ffgrowthmindset.primaryblogger.co.uk/   There is now a permanent link to this blog from the class blog section of this website.

Look out for information later in the term about sessions for parents around this issue.

2 Comments

• Hannah Hilton says:

  26/01/2016 at 10:59 pm

  Earlier on this year I started reading your blog on growth mindset and to be honest was blown away! It is amazing. I wanted to start using some of the ideas and videos from the blog but I have noticed you can no longer access the blog. Do you have any plans to put it back on?
  Many thanks.

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  • Peter Harris says:

    27/01/2016 at 9:50 pm

    I am glad you are enjoying it. It had a problem but is partially fixed now.

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