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Hawkshead Primary School, Main St, Hawkshead, Cumbria LA22 0NT

Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary School, Cumbria
Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary School, Cumbria

Hawkshead Primary School

Main St, Hawkshead, Cumbria

LA22 0NT

Teaching and Learning Policy

At Hawkshead Primary School learning is defined as: The process of acquiring the essential knowledge, skills, understanding and behaviours required for deep understanding.

Provision is designed to advance understanding gradually throughout a key stage. Lessons are not an event in themselves. They are part of the process of learning and therefore we do not expect pupils to complete learning within a lesson. Many lessons will carry on over several days or even weeks until a pupil is showing the required degree of understanding. In lessons in may be relevant to be teaching a new learning objective – being introduced to new learning or sometimes learning may be revised, imbedded and deepened in a new context.

Progress is defined as “The widening and deepening of essential knowledge, skills, understanding and behaviour.” This means that pupils will experience the same content over and over again, each time in a richer and more challenging context, thus deepening their understanding. We do not rush to introduce new content as it is important that pupils have sophisticated problems that challenge them in a wide variety of different and diverse situations first.

Pupils will be given increasingly challenging activities at each stage of development which we call ‘cognitive domains’. The table below shows the cognitive domain, the type of teaching they will receive in each domain and the typical nature of each task.

Cognitive domainPredominant form of teachingType of thinking Types of activities
BasicModelling, explainingLow level cognitive demand. Involves following instructions.Name, describe, follow instructions or methods, complete tasks, recall information, ask basic questions, use, match, report, measure, list, illustrate, label, recognise, tell, repeat, arrange, define, memorise.
AdvancingApplication, activities with review Higher level of cognitive demand. Involves mental processing beyond recall. Requires some degree of decision making.Apply skills to solve problems, explain, explain methods, classify, infer, categorise, identify patterns, organise, modify, predict, interpret, summarise, make observations, estimate, compare.
DeepCoaching and mentoringCognitive demands are complex and abstract. Involves problems with multi-steps or more than one possible answer. Requires justification of answers.Solve non-routine problems, appraise, explain concepts, hypothesise, investigate, cite evidence, design, create, prove.

Pupils are assessed according to the curriculum standards for each milestone and whether they have a Basic, Advancing or Deep understanding of them. It is expected that by the end of each Milestone, the majority of pupils will have an advancing understanding and some will have a deep understanding.

View this page as a downloadable PDF here: Teaching and Learning Policy

Events in December 2023

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
27/11/2023(1 event)

Nursery Open Day

27/11/2023

Nursery Open Day

28/11/2023
29/11/2023
30/11/2023(1 event)

Tim Farron Visit

30/11/2023

Tim Farron Visit

01/12/2023
02/12/2023(1 event)

Christmas Market Stalls and Santa Experience

02/12/2023 03/12/2023

Hawkshead Christmas Market
Stalls and Santa Experience

03/12/2023(1 event)

Christmas Market Stalls and Santa Experience

02/12/2023 03/12/2023

Hawkshead Christmas Market
Stalls and Santa Experience

04/12/2023
05/12/2023
06/12/2023
07/12/2023
08/12/2023
09/12/2023
10/12/2023
11/12/2023(1 event)

Carol Singing


11/12/2023

Carol Singing in the village

12/12/2023(1 event)

Theatre trip

12/12/2023

Whole school Trip to the Dukes Theatre to see A Christmas Carol

13/12/2023(1 event)

Class 1 Nativity


13/12/2023

Class 1 Nativity

14/12/2023
15/12/2023
16/12/2023
17/12/2023
18/12/2023
19/12/2023(1 event)

End of Autumn Term

19/12/2023

End of Autumn Term

20/12/2023
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Contact details

Tel: 015394 36354

Email: head@hawkshead.cumbria.sch.uk

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Hawkshead Primary School, Main St,

Hawkshead, Cumbria LA22 0NT

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Hawkshead Primary School, Main St, Hawkshead, Cumbria LA22 0NT