HPL Updates

HPL Update

 29 May 2024

It is a busy period for all HPL Accreditors!

We would like to take the opportunity to congratulate all HPL schools that have been accredited and re-accredited thus far!! This remarkable achievement reflects your commitment to providing quality education to each and every one of your students! A celebratory announcement will be made in the next HPL Update on Wednesday, the 26th of June 2024 of all HPL Accrediting and Re-Accrediting Schools.

This is a friendly reminder that 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 Cassey Benito

Research Opportunity: The State of Learning Spaces

You are invited to be part of an exciting piece of research being undertaken by education design consultancy Noble + Eaton with school leaders across the UK and beyond. 

The State of Learning Spaces aims to uncover how UK state, independent and international school leaders really feel about their learning environments. What are the current problems? The immediate priorities? The future possibilities?

We will share the results widely, and hope that our findings will help shape learning environments for the better - ensuring they truly meet the needs of students. As an official partner of the research, we are inviting you to participate in the research by completing a brief online survey (it takes just 5 minutes). 

By taking part, you will be helping to inform the future of school learning spaces. Noble + Eaton will also be sharing an early-release version of the findings (prior to public release) with all survey respondents. 

Please follow the link below to complete the survey.

Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey to unleash your leadership potential?

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. 

Modules include: 

 ✅ Discover Your Purpose: Unveil Your 'Why' 

 ✅ Harnessing Perception: Leveraging Others'

       Insights for Personal Growth 

 ✅ Mastering Emotional and Social Intelligence   ✅ Amplify Your Growth: Embrace Feedback 

 ✅ Nurturing Well-being and Building Resilience   ✅ The Art of Persuasion: Mastering the Power

       of Influence 

 ✅ Embark on a Journey of Transformation: 

       What Lies Beyond? 

Due to popular demand, we have moved the date of our HPL Teacher as Leader course to September to coincide with the start of the academic year. Register before 1st July to ensure your place on this course. 

Contact getintouch@highperformancelearning.co.uk 

to register your space on this course before 

1st July.

Limited Availability: Sign up today and benefit from this enriching HPL CPD Opportunities!

1. Practical Strategies for Becoming a more            Effective HPL Classroom Teacher

(For all staff) 

Price per workshop: £119 + VAT per delegate 

The aim of the programme is to support teachers in how to integrate HPL into their classroom practice. It will plug the gap between pedagogy and teaching and learning. The programme is led by the Albany Learning Trust and focusses on practical examples of how to effectively use HPL 

in the classroom. 

During each workshop you will: 

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

This workshop will focus on how to use practice and retrieval in an HPL classroom. 

Participants will engage with a range of strategies such as how to use quizzing and using a knowledge organiser to develop HPL skills and behaviours. 

Workshop 5 | 9th July 2024 | 9.00am – 11.00am (UK time)

This workshop will focus on how to develop curriculum planning in an HPL classroom. Participants will engage with a range of strategies such as how how to use coherent mapping and use tiered questions and problems to develop HPL skills and behaviours. To book contact getintouch@highperformancelearning.co.uk

2. The Effective Teaching Assistant in an HPL School (For: Entire HPL Community) 

Wednesday, 5th June 2024 | 9.30 am to 12.30 pm (UK Time) 

Virtual Price: £119 + VAT per delegate 

This half-day course is aimed at classroom support assistants in an HPL school. Through a combination of presentations, activities and facilitated discussions, it will: 

• Explain the HPL philosophy and framework, showing how it is used by teachers and how it helps pupils to systematically improve both confidence and performance. 
• Explore the issues of language, challenge and opportunity and how these impact on performance as well as self-esteem.
• Encourage participants to reflect on their own classroom practice and at how they both promote and model high expectations.

How do you reduce the cognitive demands in your classroom?

How do we ensure we reduce cognitive overload for students? What strategies do you adopt in your planning and classroom practice to reduce cognitive overload?

Lucy Rundle, Vice Principal at Dixons Trinity Chapeltown, Leeds wrote an article on the role 

of designing great slides to reduce cognitive demands. Read her article below.

Have you signed up for your TWO FREE FGC Taster Events for the 23/24 Academic Year?

Avoid missing out and sign up for our Summer Term FGC Professional Development Events now! 

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

Submission deadline for the The World Changers Competition by 8BillionIdeas is on the 7th of June 2024 no later than 8pm (UK Time)

We hope your students are getting on well with their activities for the HPL Magic Encounters Competition and enjoying the challenge! We would like to inform you that the deadline for this specific competition is on the 7th of June 2024 no later than 8pm (UK Time). 

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). 

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

FGC Spring Term Programme Events Round Up

Explore the Evidence | Resilience and Self-Regulation | Melanie Saunders, HPL Central

Last week Melanie Saunders chaired our most recent Explore the Evidence webinar which focused on Resilience and Self-regulation.

Colleagues from across the Fellowship and Global Community interrogated and critically reflected on current theories relating to resilience and young people. To access the reading please follow this link here. 

Join us for the final Explore the Evidence in our series of webinars for a discussion and debate on effective strategies for engaging parents. This webinar will be chaired by Russel Ellicott on the 20th of June 2024. If you would like to join the discussion, please register, and book your place here.

FGC Spring-Summer Programme 

View the Spring and Summer FGC Professional Learning Programme here.