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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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🎉Melanie Saunders, Chief Education Adviser at HPL shares her insights on the panel 'Tackling Behaviour to Build Better Learning Environments' at the Schools & Academies Show today. 🎉
If you are attending the Schools & Academies Show today at the ExCeL London, you can catch our Chief Education Adviser, Melanie Saunders as she shares her insights on the panel 'Tackling Behaviour to Build Better Learning Environments'. The panel starts at 2.10 pm in the School Improvement Theatre. We look forward to sharing our insights.
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Host a Teacher Takeover next academic year
Show case the excellence in your school with the wider HPL Community.To find out more, read our teacher takeover guidance below. #BringOneIdeaLeaveWithMany!
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Friendly Reminder to all Accrediting and Re-Accrediting Schools to Submit Example Material to HPL Online
As you will be aware from previous communications, the period for Accreditation and Re-accreditation is the 29th April to 16th June 2024.
As per the guidance, available on HPL Online, you are required to have uploaded your example material no later than three weeks before your Accreditation date.
Your Accreditor will contact you at least one week before your Accreditation visit to inform you of any additional example material they would like to see, and what meetings, interviews, or observations they would like included in the visit, and you will work together to finalise an itinerary for the day.
For any queries relating to the Accreditation window period, please contact Kerri Lyon, Chief Operating Officer at HPL.
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Are you eager to carve out your Leadership Pathway?
The HPL Teacher as Leader Programme provides the focus, self-awareness, and resilience you need to work effectively with others and shape your leadership pathway.
Delivered in partnership with IDG and underpinned by the HPL philosophy #EveryoneCan, you will develop key leadership, emotional and social skills which will positively impact your classroom practice and develop a deeper understanding of people's perceptions.
Our programme offers a dynamic series of modules meticulously crafted to empower you on your leadership journey including:
- Know your ‘Why’
- Others’ perceptions and self-development
- Emotional and social intelligence
- Feedback
- Wellbeing and mental toughness
- Influencing
- Transformation - what next?
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Spaces are filling up fast! Sign up for our enriching HPL CPD Opportunity
Colleagues from Chorley New Road Primary School, the Albany Learning Trust, led an insightful second workshop on how to explain and model in an HPL classroom. Colleagues engaged with a range of strategies such as how to use live modelling effectively and how to use meta-cognitive talk to develop HPL skills and behaviours. The overarching aim of the workshop was to support teachers in how to integrate HPL into their classroom practice.
The next workshop will be held from 9 am - 11 am (UK time) on the 7th May 2024 and will focus on how to use questioning and feedback in an HPL classroom. Participants will engage with a range of strategies such as how to use cold calling and give effective feedback to develop HPL skills and behaviours.
To sign up for this workshop, or to hear more about the full programme, please contact getintouch@highperformancelearning.co.uk. The programme is available to attend as individual sessions at £119 + VAT per session per delegate, or at a discounted rate for the whole course, at £500 + VAT per delegate.
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Sign up for our Summer Term FGC Professional Development Events!
Headteachers or HPL Leads of Pathway Programme Schools (WCSA/HPSA)
can request to attend two FGC Taster Events for the academic year on behalf of the academic staff with Cassey Benito, Programme Manager at HPL.
Please include the following information when emailing Cassey Benito.
- Name of event
- Time of session you would like to attend
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Linking-Up Meetings
Headteachers/ Principals and HPL Leads, please 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.
Year 2 WCSA & HPSA Schools
- 21st May 2024 - 11am (UK Time) - WCSA Year 2 (Headteachers/Principals) - Register here for this meeting.
- 22nd May 2024 - 11am (UK Time) - WCSA Year 2 - (HPL Leads) - Register here for this meeting.
- 28th May 2024 - 11.00 am (UK Time) - HPSA Year 2 (Headteachers/Principals) - Register here for this meeting.
- 29th May 2024 - 11.00 am (UK Time) - HPSA Year 2 - (HPL Leads) - Register here for this meeting.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
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FGC Spring Term Programme Events Round Up
HPL in the Classroom:
On the 25th April we were delighted to welcome Claire Smith, GEMS Wellington International School, for the second time this academic year, to share her subject expertise for Igniting Imagination and Enhancing Student Agency across the Art and Design curriculum. Claire shared her expertise on how to enhance the teaching and learning of art and design across the Primary and Secondary phases. During the webinar colleagues discussed how they could empower students to build their creative skills, adopt different approaches for utilising AI and how as art educators we can support our children to build skills and knowledge for the future.
To watch the recording please click here.
Explore the Evidence:
This week we welcomed colleagues to our latest Explore the Evidence session, focusing on Enquiry Based Learning (EBL). It was a pleasure to debate and discuss the impact EBL can have on childrens curiosity, independent thinking skills and ability to recall and secure knowledge through enquiry. If you would like to access the reading and resources provided during the session,please click here.
Leadership Seminar:
On Tuesday we welcomed colleagues to our most recent Leadership Seminar which focused on Leading a Creative School. Colleagues explored areas such as modelling, a sense of urgency, promoting collaborative thinking, high expectations and using failure as a learning opportunity.
To watch the recording please click here.
FGC Spring-Summer Programme
View the Spring and Summer FGC Professional Learning Programme here.
May Professional Learning events:
- Guest Webinar | Everything We've Learned About Improving Maths Attainment | Rebekah Fant-Male, International Partnerships Lead - 7 May 2024 | 10.30 am and 2.30 pm (UK time) -Register Here
- Spotlight Webinar | Building High Performance Teams Through Belonging | Peter Mayland and Linda Burrows, Chorley New Road Primary Academy - Albany Learning Trust - 9 May 2024 | 1.30 pm - 2.15 pm (UK time) - Register Here
- Explore the Evidence | Resilience and Self-Regulation | Melanie Saunders, HPL Central - 20 May 2024 | 10.30 am and 2.30 pm (UK time) -Register Here
- Sector Network | HPL in Schools in Areas of Deprivation | Melanie Saunders, HPL Central - 21 May 2024 | 10.30 am and 2.30 pm (UK time) - Register Here
- Teacher Certification Award Scheme: External Assessor Training | Amy-Lilley Stewart - 22 May 2024 | 10.30 am and 2.30 pm (UK time) - Register Here
June Professional Learning events:
- Leadership Seminar | Russel Ellicott, HPL Central - 6 June 2024 | 12 pm - 1 pm (UK time) - Register Here
- HPL in the Classroom | Big Picture Linking in English | 11 June 2024 | 10.30 am and 2.30 pm (UK time) -Register Here
- HPL Leads Global Forum | Securing HPL Whole School Engagement | Lisa Begbie, HPL Lead at West Kirby Grammar School | 13 June 2024 | 1.30 pm and 2.30 pm (UK time) - Register Here
- Sector Network | HPL World Class International Schools | Russel Ellicott, HPL Central | 18 June 2024 | 10.30 am and 2.30 pm (UK time) - Register Here
- HPL Leads Global Forum | Engagement with Parents | Russel Ellicott, HPL Central | 20 June 2024 | 10.30 am and 2.30 pm (UK time) - Register Here
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This update's Big Question
It has been announced recently that One-word Ofsted grades will continue. In the UK there has been discussion and debate about the value of One-word grades and the impact this can have on teacher retention and staff wellbeing. With differing inspection frameworks and regulators for schools, internationally and in the UK (maintained and Independent Schools) is it time for a rethink on how we measure the quality of the education provided for children?
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Challenge your students to use their creativity to help change the world!
The World Changers Competition by 8BillionIdeas is a HPL 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.
What will the student(s) learn?
- Skills to visualise the future.
- Focus your problem solving skills.
- Enhance your presentation skills.
The student(s) will be presenting an idea that will change the world. The idea must solve a problem linked to sustainability, and have a positive impact on the world around the student(s).
For teachers interested in signing up their students in this competition, please watch the welcome webinar recording here.
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!
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🎉 Celebrating HPL Schools
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Well done to Joanna Povell from Wales International School, on winning the Principal/ Head Teacher of the Year in the Tes Awards for International Schools 2024! Wonderful achievement!
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Congratulations to GEMS Wesgreen International School, Sharjah for being awarded in the Tes International School Awards 2024 for Student Mental Health Initiative of the Year. What a Brilliant Accolade! This is well deserved.
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High Performance Learning at Truro High School for Girls'
We are delighted to share with colleagues across the HPL Community the HPL Brochure that Truro High School for Girls' has put together.
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The HPL Playbook - Towards Excellence in HPL Practice
This new resource provides guidance to schools on how to systematise and optimise HPL within the school once it has been initially adopted. It pulls together in a single document the progression routes for students, for teachers and for the entire institution. It identifies ‘what good looks like’ and so enables you to build towards it and to monitor progress. It provides a one stop reference point for HPL Leads and the entire school community.
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Using a blended distance pedagogy in teacher education to address challenges in teacher recruitment - Glover & Stewart (2024)
How do we address global teacher shortages? UNESCO recently published a Global Report on Teachers: Addressing Teacher Shortages and Transforming the Profession (2024) with the intention of mobilizing international and country efforts to empower, recruit, train and support teachers within resilient education systems of collaborative, innovative, and cohesive teaching profession. The report makes the following recommendations:
- Develop holistic teacher policies aligned to national priorities and the policy landscape that include all dimensions affecting teachers in an integrated manner, using a collaborative framework and social dialogue.
- Collect more and better data to systematically report on the indicators agreed in the Education 2030 Framework for Action.
- Transform teacher education and professional development from course-based, individual endeavours to lifelong, collaborative, and teacher-led processes.
- Improve the working conditions of teachers, beginning with salaries and incentives to ensure teachers receive competitive compensation and benefits and ensure gender equality in pay and treatment.
- Ensure adequate public, domestic funding that is consistent with the existing benchmarks of 6 per cent of GDP and 20 per cent of total government expenditure.
- Enhance international cooperation to engage different constituencies in collaborative efforts to address teacher shortages and amplify the outreach of teacher policies.
Taking recommendation 3 in to consideration, how do we Transform teacher education and professional development from course-based, individual endeavours to lifelong, collaborative, and teacher-led processes. Glover & Stewart (2024) state that recruiting high-quality teachers is critical in supporting the delivery of an effective education experience for learners in schools. Their paper examines how a flexible route in to teaching can contribute to addressing the challenges of teacher recruitment in Wales. To address the teacher recruitment crisis, do we need to be more flexible and creative in the way teachers are trained?
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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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