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HPL Update

27 November 2024

🎉High Performance Learning at the 31st FOBISIA Leadership Conference🎉

High Performance Learning had the privilege of exhibiting at this year’s FOBISIA Leadership Conference and was given the opportunity to share the transformational impact HPL is having on a global scale with over four-hundred leaders was a real highlight of the academic year. Thank you to those leaders who attended our roundtable debate, ‘Maximising the Impact of Professional Development: How schools can ensure Professional Development aligns with school goals and effectively enhances teaching quality and leadership capacity.’ 

Your insights into how you ensure high quality, impactful professional development was a pleasure to moderate and align brilliantly with the High Performance Learning school journey.

High Performance Learning in Hanoi, Vietnam

What a privilege it has been to celebrate Nguyen Sieu School's most recent achievements. The school launched the next stage of their development - the introduction of HPL in the school and into the wider Vietnamese educational community. It began with a spectacular event at Hanoi's beautiful Ho Guom Opera to celebrate the last 10 years in which the school has moved to become a truly international school through the adoption of the Cambridge Curriculum. 

Professor Deborah Eyre was honoured to be a VIP alongside the British Ambassador, the Minister of Education, the Hanoi Education Minister, the Regional Director for Cambridge Education and the Chair of the school governors; and they were treated to an amazingly demonstration of talent through music, drama and dance. 

On November 22, Nguyen Sieu School looked to the future with HPL at its core. The RedfinED Forum 2024 at Nguyen Sieu School was another spectacular event which welcomed over 100 school leaders. It was a privilege for Professor Eyre to Keynote on the topic of combining wellbeing and academic success. Then followed the very exciting launch of the HPL book in Vietnamese, an initiative led by the inspirational Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, Principal of the school. It was a pleasure for Professor Eyre to work alongside the HPL team of Brynn Cooper and David Muir who each ran workshops while Professor Eyre recorded a podcast with a couple of inspirational students - exploring how HPL is supporting them to be confident and successful. Professor Eyre also had over 100 parents joining her and Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, Principal of the school, to talk about using HPL to support development at home. There was lots of interest and some really thoughtful questions. Professionally it was an outstanding experience.

High Performance Learning at the AoBSO Annual Leadership Conference.

Our founder, Professor Deborah Eyre, and Head of Programmes and Partnerships, Cassey Benito, are at the AoBSO School Leaders Conference. Day one started off with a bang as James McDonald, AoBSO Chair opened the Conference and welcomed everyone present. James is also the Headteacher at an HPL World Class Accredited School, GEMS Wesgreen International School.

The first day of the AoBSO Conference was filled with inspirational and uplifting keynotes and we loved meeting with existing HPL schools and meeting other schools and school leaders.

The first guest speaker was Dr. Sabrina Hatton Cohen, leading international expert on risk- critical decision making in crises and is an Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University. She studied a 1st Class Honours degree in Psychology, a Masters in International Fire Service Development and a a PhD in Behavioural Neuroscience. We were specifically delighted that Sabrina aligns with the HPL philosophy and framework, where she highlighted that “anyone can be successful, regardless of their background, where they come from or their starting point in life.” 

It was such a privilege to hear from: 

• Sam McAlister: BAFTA-nominated interview producer and LSE senior fellow
• Emily Konstantas: Founder of The Safeguarding Alliance
• Thea Wiltshire from the Department for Business and Trade
• Dame Christine Ryan, Ofsted Chair

Adam highlighted that 'one can stay ahead by creating an environment that is focused and resilient on what you want to achieve.' He reiterated the importance of having resilience in order to win and to stay ahead in whichever career path you find yourself. 

We are honoured to be part of the AoBSO family. 

It was great to see Senior Leaders from our existing HPL Schools:

• New Cairo British International School - NCBIS (Paul Joseph) 
• International British School of Bucharest (Kendall Peet)
• Nadeen School (James Batts)
• Durham School for Girls Doha (Vanessa Whay) 
• GEMS Founders School - Dubai (Matthew Burfield) 
• Wesgreen International School (James McDonald)

Well done to Albany Academy for becoming the first Ambassador Trust in the country for embedding formative assessment!

A huge congratulations to GEMS Founders School, Dubai for securing second place upon presenting their ideas about Turning Classrooms into Brainstorm Zones in the DeMont's TeachForward Challenge, standing out amongst 30 other schools across the UAE. 

Well done to the Under 13A Rugby team at St Benedict's School for clinching the Middlesex Schools Rugby Cup title! 

We are delighted to share with colleagues across the HPL community the ACP and VAA cribsheets that are being used at King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls’ Academy to support staff in making the framework of HPL explicitly linked to learning the curriculum. It’s a great way to have one pagers that support new staff and remind their existing community that the HPL framework is the key to unlock the curriculum. - Sally Yates, Deputy Headteacher– Quality of Education

We are thrilled to share with colleagues the incredible student led project Lee Hawkins, Deputy Head of Primary has been working on with their amazing Year 5 and 6 students at the International British School of Bucharest. Together, they’ve channelled creativity, originality, evolutionary thinking, and so many other High Performance Learning values and attitudes to develop.

The Wonderful World of Thoughtsville—a series of eight unique stories. What makes this project even more special is that it was almost entirely student-led. 

Lee's role was simply to guide and support them. Their deep understanding of HPL competencies shone through, allowing them to create thoughtful, engaging, and impactful resources that will help the younger students connect with these ideas. Each story introduces a character inspired by the eight areas of the ACPs (Advanced Cognitive Performance characteristics) and VAAs (Values, Attitudes, and Attributes) making these abstract concepts engaging and relatable.

HPL Student Competition: Innovators for Tomorrow (Only for FGC Schools)

This is a friendly reminder to teachers to keep us in the loop by sending exciting photos and videos of your students' brainstorming and working on their competition briefs. 

Feel free to tag @HPLedu on LinkedIn or send Cassey Benito the photos or videos and she will spotlight the various teams in our HPL Update and social media. 🙂 

Important dates with links attached:

• Sharing of resources on HPL Online | 6th November - To view the resources and materials, please click here 
• Submission Deadline | 15th January 2025, no later than 6 pm (UK Time) - Submit your students entries here 
• Winners announced | 24th January 2024 at 1 pm (UK Time) 

Winners will be invited to showcase their pitch and receive an award and prize.

We are looking forward to receiving your students' submissions. If you have any questions or concerns, please email Cassey Benito.

Leadership for Change Competition is now closed | The Economist Educational Foundation 

We would like to thank all HPL Schools and Teachers who participated in the Leadership for Change Competition. The competition is now closed and the winners will be announced on Monday, 9th December 2024!

Winners will receive an award, prize funding and mentorship to turn their projects into reality.

WCSA/ HPSA Headteachers and HPL Leads, you can sign up for TWO FGC Professional Learning Events for the Academic Year

If you haven't registered your staff for the FGC Taster Events for the Autumn Term, you have the opportunity to do so.

Each Pathway Programme School can request to attend TWO FGC Taster Events for the academic year.

Sign up by emailing Cassey Benito the name and time of the event that you or your staff would like to attend. 

Teacher Certification Award Scheme 2024- 2025

FGC teachers and HPSA middle leaders can now register for the Teacher Certification Award Scheme of: 

• HPL Teacher Assistant (FGC only)
  
• HPL Teacher (FGC only)
• HPL Expert Teacher (FGC only) 
• HPL Teacher Leader (FGC and HPSA)

Registrations: 

For FGC colleagues, please find the registration form here and upload the completed form to HPL Online by Monday, 9th December 2024.

The TCO will need to upload Candidates Pre-Evaluation and supporting/ existing evidence (a minimum of 5 pieces no more than 10) by Monday, 9th December 2024. The link to upload candidates Pre-evaluation and Supporting evidence can be found here.

The TCO will need to submit candidates Pre-evaluation and supporting evidence as a zip folder and sign the Pre-evaluation to verify the candidate has already met some of the standards and criteria before starting the Professional Learning Phase in January 2025.

Baseline Impact Survey Dashboard Results - All New Schools Only

The Baseline Impact Survey dashboard results will be available on Monday, 2nd December 2024 at 9am (UK Time). The links to access the results dashboard will be sent directly to the nominated recipients listed on the Authority to Share Contact Details Form. 

The results discussion with your WCSA Coach or HPSA Associate will take place in January 2025, your Coach/ Associate will confirm the date with you.

If you have any questions around this, please contact Cassey Benito.

FGC Autumn Term Programme 

View the FGC Autumn - Summer Term FGC Professional Learning Programme here 

FGC Programme Round Up

It was lovely to see colleagues at the Leadership Seminar: How to Use the Learning Environment to Achieve Your HPL Goals. For colleagues who registered, but could not attend please find the recording here.