Persevering until we reach our goal...

This week, as part of Growth Mindset Week, we have had extra assemblies and been able to watch cartoons that teach us about how we learn, with the monsters Mojo and Katy.

On Monday we learnt that our brain is a muscle, and we need to keep it fit by learning challenging things.

You can watch the video that we watched here

On Tuesday we discovered that by trying things lots of times, persevering and being resilient by learning from our mistakes, we could train ourselves to get better at something.

Remind yourself how Mojo did that here

On Wednesday we were shown the power of the word 'YET' - and how just because we can't do something now didn't mean we wouldn't be able to do it forever!

Find out what Katy did here
Enjoy the Sesame Street song 'The Power of Yet' here

Today we found out about how our brain learns, and makes electrical signals between parts of our brain called neurons. By trying something challenges, and working hard on it, we would make the pathways between our neurons stronger and start to find the task easier.

Discover the secrets of the brain here
To listen to Bruno Mars reminding us to not give up, click here

We have also been working hard and having fun in our breaktime challenges

Now we're even teaching the teachers how to do it!

Meanwhile, Class 2 have gone completely dotty! Having read 'The Dot' story, the children had a chance to create their own pictures out of dots. Here are some lovely examples. Note that after Tuesday's lesson, the children have persevered and often had a second go, seeing if they can improve on their first attempt.

It's our final day of Growth Mindset Week tomorrow, I wonder what we will have all learnt about our learning by the end of the week?

Growth Mindset Week has Lift Off!

This week Fordham All-Saints pupils are taking their learning to new levels by remembering to have a growth mindset!

We started with a Monday morning assembly where we learnt about all the new challenges we were going to face, and how we needed to have a growth mindset to solve them!

Breaktime Challenges
Year 6 will be spending breaktimes at different challenge stations around the playground this week. They will teach us a new skill, which we can improve by practicing!

Learning Cats Cradle

Cups Song Training

Learning it all step by step

Discovering new clapping games together

Target practice - can we improve over the week?

Learning the finer points of keepie-uppie

Getting some tips on penalty shoot-out

Determined to attempt Mrs McMillan's challenges!

First stage of Cats Cradle complete!

Crochet in Class 5
Gillian, a local crochet expert, came in and taught us how to crochet our own friendship bracelets. We found it hard at first, but now we have started a lot of us are determined to keep going!

Being shown how to start

First attempts

Showing others how it should be done helps reinforce our own learning

A face of frustration!

We learnt we needed to be patient when learning something new

Some of us had a second attempt to see if we could improve

Once we had practiced a little, it became much easier

We worked out ways of improving on our first attempts

We also became a lot more creative once we were more confident!

Paper Challenge in Class 4 & 5
Class 4 and 5 had a go at trying to create these paper structures. It was very frustrating at first, but we got there in the end!

Nervous smiles at the start

First attempt at the problem

Concentration face...

It doesn't always go right first time!

We felt a mix of emotions...

Success!!

Using creativity to solve the problem

We learn better when we are happy!

Looking at the problem from a different angle

Trying to overcome frustration!

Learning from our mistakes and making another attempt

We felt extra proud when we solved it ourselves!