HPL Updates

HPL Update

06 March 2024

HPL an Affiliate Member at FOBISIA

We are delighted to become an Affiliate Member at FOBISIA as part of our strategy to begin working with international schools in Asia.

🌟Last few tickets remain! 

Join us at the High Performance Learning Annual Conference for two days of inspiration and networking! 

Here's a glimpse of what awaits you at the conference across 20th and 21st March: 

🎙️ Keynote Speakers: 

• Dr. Helen Street, International Educational Consultant 
• Laura Knight, Digital Education and AI Thought Leader 
• Alex Staniforth, Record-breaking Adventurer
• Professor Deborah Eyre, Founder and Chair of HPL 

Book soon to avoid disappointment as spaces are filling up

Improving Classroom Practice through the HPL Lens

In five Workshops, teachers will learn how to integrate HPL into their classroom practice, plugging the gap between pedagogy and teaching and learning. The programme, led by the Albany Learning Trust, focusses on practical examples of how to effectively use HPL in the classroom. As part of each session, delegates will: 

• Learn how to integrate HPL into their lessons effectively 
• Create their own personal development plan for improving their own practice 
• Practice implementing HPL into their lessons, building their expertise 
• Have opportunities to share their best practice 
• Develop their wider professional network of colleagues from the HPL community 

Perception Impact Surveys 2023-24 - Surveys Now Live

This is a friendly reminder that the Wave 2 Perception Impact Surveys links will remain live until Monday, 11th of March 2024. These Perception Impact Surveys are a wonderful tool to allow you to chart the impact of HPL within your school, and we encourage you to work towards maximum completion levels wherever possible.

Emails were sent to Headteachers and HPL Leads yesterday from Cassey Benito with the most recent response rate figures. 

For any questions or advice on administering the survey, or for any technical queries, please contact Kerri Lyon, Chief Operating Officer at HPL, who will be happy to assist you.

Subject Community Lead Coming Soon!

This month we welcome four new members to the subject communities forum:

• Nicola Aston at St John’s Beaumont will be jointly leading the SEND community. 
• Elaine Burelli at New Cairo British International School will be jointly leading the SEND community. 
• Ellie Jones at St Edwards School will be leading the Maths community. 
• Geraldine Araujo at GEMS Wellington International School (WIS) will be leading the Science Community. 

Linking-Up Meetings

Register and save the dates for upcoming WCSA and HPSA Linking Up Meetings in May 2024.

Dates for May 2024:

Year 1 WCSA & HPSA Schools

• 7th May 2024 - 11am (UK Time) - WCSA Year 1 (Headteachers/Principals) - Register here for this meeting. 
• 8th May 2024 - 11am (UK Time) - WCSA Year 1 - (HPL Leads) - Register here for this meeting.  
• 7th May 2024 - 12.30 pm (UK Time) - HPSA Year 1 (Headteachers/Principals) - Register here for this meeting. 
• 8th May 2024 - 12.30 pm (UK Time) - HPSA Year 1 - (HPL Leads) - Register here for this meeting. 

Pathway Programmes (WCSA/HPSA) can sign up to attend any TWO FGC Taster Events!

Headteachers/Principals or HPL Leads
can request to attend two FGC Taster Events for the academic year on behalf of the academic staff. 

Please ensure that staff members are made aware of these two events. HPL central wants to prevent individual staff members from attending other FGC Events outside of what was agreed upon by the school. 

Please include the following information when emailing Cassey Benito.

• Name of event 
• Time of session you would like to attend

FGC Spring Term Programme Events Round Up

Guest Webinar: Creating Positive Schools from the Inside-Out | Dr Helen Street, Positive Schools Initiative

Last week we welcomed Dr. Helen Street to the Fellowship and Global Community to deliver a guest webinar on Finding Yourself in a World Full of People. Helen posed the question, ‘how can we create and support autonomy in our school communities, while also learning to act as a social whole, with Contextual Wellbeing?’ 

School examples of effective strategies for supporting and nurturing wellbeing across the school community were shared and discussed. 

Effective Strategies to Embed VAAs and ACPs into the Maths Classroom | Ellie Jones, St Edward’s School, Cheltenham

We were also delighted to welcome Ellie Jones from St Edwards School to deliver a webinar on HPL in the Classroom: Effective strategies to embed VAAs and ACPs into the Maths Classroom. The session explored a range of strategies for integrating HPL into the Maths classroom. Colleagues had the opportunity to delve into the hurdles educators might encounter. During the webinar colleagues had the opportunity to draw from personal experiences and propose effective solutions.

To watch the recording please select the button below. 

FGC Spring-Summer Programme 

View the Spring and Summer FGC Professional Learning Programme here.

8BillionIdeas World Changers Magic Encounters Competition

Thank you to those who were able to join the welcome webinar for the World Changers Magic Encounter on the 27th of February. For those who were unable to attend, please watch the welcome webinar recording here.   

The World Changers Competition is a Magic Encounter that will challenge students to do just that: change the world with their ideas! This competition is aimed at Year 12 and 13. Throughout this competition, students will explore social entrepreneurship, inspiring positive change, and impacting the world around us.

Register here for the World Changers Competition. Winners of the competition will gain access to a skill enhancing workshop with an 8billionideas Mentor. Don't miss out! 

This update's Big Question by Mark Tomlins, HPL Central

How can we use HPL to build our behaviour policy and practises? 

This week’s Big Question is an opportunity to reflect on how the HPL philosophy and framework can inform whole school behaviour policies. As  HPL Lead, Mark Tomlins led the school drive team to achieving World Class School Accreditation. As a part of the adoption phase a strategic road map identified a need to improve the whole school behaviour policy. To address this need, the school drive team developed a behaviour policy which embedded the VAAs and empowered the children to view behaviour as being aspirational. 

Have you used HPL to shape behaviour in your school? What strategies did you implement?

We are extremely excited to celebrate with Queen's College, Taunton for formally launching the student High Performance Learning (HPL) drive team last week. We look forward to reading and celebrating the innovative ways which HPL is being used across your school.