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Welcome to HPL updates! We are delighted to have you as a member of the HPL Global Community. We would like to keep you informed with the latest updates in HPL from events to resources and materials, to thoughts on education and much more.
Best regards,
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Cassey Benito
Programme Manager
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Participate in Inspirational Development Group's (IDG) Magic Encounters Competition
IDG is a world leader in the youth education sector. Their purpose is to enable young people to engage in experiential, transferable learning programmes which enhance their personal growth as tomorrow’s leaders.
IDG delivers experiential leadership programs. Each program explores different aspects of leadership, which are brought to life for the participants through command tasks. IDG then support participants to reflect on their experience and explore how they can transfer their learning into their leadership practice.
The Magic Encounters competition gives HPL school students to experience command tasks and then design their own task. The winning school will see their design turned into a real-life command task, which IDG will create and deliver to the students, and some of their global corporate clients!
This is a call for all Heads/ Principals, HPL Leads and Teachers to encourage their students to participate in the competition, as it is a unique and memorable experience for staff and students in High Performance Learning schools.
Timeline of Events
- Welcome Webinar: W/C 2nd October 2023
- Command Task Experience: 9 - 20 October 2023
- Sign Up Deadline: 27th October 2023
- Rules Published: 30th October 2023
- Competition Closes: 1st December 2023
- Winners Announced: 15th December 2023
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Happy Summer Holidays
We at HPL Central would like to wish all our Heads/Principals, Teachers, Staff, and Students currently on their summer break a happy holiday.
Thanks to you for the incredible commitment that you have shown.
You should be proud of everything that you have achieved this year and I hope you can enjoy your summer holidays and look forward to returning to school in the new academic term.
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Teacher Certification
Please be informed that all marking (internal and external) should be completed by the 14th of July 2023. Shortly thereafter, moderation should take place.
All submissions will be ratified at the August Accreditation Committee, and results communicated in September.
Thank you to everyone involved in keeping this process moving as smoothly as possible. Please contact
Cassey Benito
or Michelle Bradbury
for any information about the Teacher Certification Process.
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Modern Foreign Languages (MFL)
This week we would like to introduce Modern Foreign Languages by Deanne Wiseman.
Deanne loves languages. When she looks back at her life choices, the one thing that she can’t imagine is not being able to speak a different language. Deanne wasn’t brought up bilingual, so all her skills and understanding started in the secondary school classroom in a comprehensive school in Wales and have blossomed from there. This is why she is so passionate about the skills that are taught to pupils sitting in front of her. She has taught in and been responsible for language departments in a wide range of secondary schools, including mixed comprehensives, single-sex comprehensives, a Boys’ Grammar School, and a British International School, and what she loves about HPL is that it gives her the vocabulary and the evidence to explain why she does things the way she does.
HPL also provides Deanne with a tool to guide her self-reflection and expand how she teaches to enable the pupils sitting in front of her to fully develop their potential.
All the subject community leads will continue to post over the summer, so if you do manage to have some extra time, check out these discussions and join in. Have your say!
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🎉 Celebrating HPL Schools
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St Edward's School shortlisted for the Independent Schools of the Year 2023 Awards
We at HPL would like to congratulate St Edward's School for being shortlisted for the Independent Schools of the Year 2023 Awards, in the Co-educational Independent School of the Year category! It is well deserved.
Being shortlisted for such a prestigious award is public recognition of the outstanding work done by the Principal, Matthew Burke, and his team. We are celebrating this BIG win with you!
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St George’s School Windsor Castle awarded coveted Eco-Schools Green Flag
Congratulations to the Head, William Goldsmith, and his phenomenal team at St George's School! We are immensely proud that your
school has earned another international accreditation this half term, this time through the Eco-Schools Green Flag award. The Flag recognises work undertaken
by the school’s Eco Club to make the school more environmentally friendly and raise eco-awareness in fellow students. How is your school raising eco-awareness? Share
your achievements with us.
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💡 Thinking Education
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In the article published by School Management Plus, Professor Deborah Eyre, Founder and Chair
at High Performance Learning, stresses that teachers are not just looking for “a lot of money and the chance to go skiing” when they go abroad to teach but also want to do something “educationally exciting”. Prof. Deborah spoke
at the International and Private Schools Education Forum (IPSEF) on the 28th of June 2023 and highlighted the importance to International Schools of looking beyond extrinsic motivators like
pay and benefits for recruiting new staff. Instead, what schools need is something "which entices teachers to feel that they’re valued, that they’re doing something educationally exciting. Achieving the
#EveryoneCan
philosophy of High Performance Learning can often seem like a big challenge but we know it's also incredibly exciting to see the impact on what students and teachers alike can achieve when that mindset is embedded within a school.
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 The Diary of an HPL Lead
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"What went well, even better if”
28th June 2023
At the end of the academic year, it is only natural to think about what you have achieved and what you might do to improve, be that in quality or efficiency. Preparation for re-accreditation in January dominated much of what I did last Autumn, gathering and presenting evidence. So this year I can be more focused on moving forward, optimising plans to get the best out of each event. I’m going back through the calendar and evaluating events, from the HPL Skills Days (part of our annual pupil induction/refresher programme), in September to the Revision Skills evening for parents in late November. I’m also pondering any tricks I might have missed. Are all my HPL bases covered?
29th June 2023
Student induction requires a multi-pronged approach. Those starting in the First Form are all in the same boat, generally new to HPL and its language. To kick off the year, we run an annual HPL Skills Day, which takes the form of a forest school-style challenge. I’m also updating Skills Days for the second and third forms, which will take part in design and business challenges respectively. For some, this will act as an introduction, but for most, it will be a refresher. Those new to the school in the Spring term will take part in their own version of a skills day, working in mixed year-group teams to develop ideas for products for the future. Running alongside this, work in class will continue to develop pupils’ use of HPL language, a key focus for us this year.
1st July 2023
As part of the Global lead role, I have been asked to run a discussion forum to support other HPL leads. What an opportunity! There is a wealth of wisdom out there (I know this from meeting colleagues at the HPL conferences in recent years), I only hope I can stimulate some interesting discussion. I’m keen that it is genuinely useful so have started with a couple of topics close to my own heart, Developing a Research Culture and New Staff Induction. Let’s see what develops.
- Kirsten Parker, HPL Lead
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Let us know what you're up to!
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We love to see what our HPL Family is up to! If you have any resources, successes, initiatives or anything else you would like to
share
with the Global HPL Community make sure to submit them on HPL Online
.
In uploading material for sharing, schools take responsibility for ensuring that they are copyright free.
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