Tel: 015394 36354 Email: admin@hawkshead.cumbria.sch.uk

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

Opening hours 8:50a.m - 3:15p.m. Breakfast and after school club available.

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

Hawkshead Primary School

Main St, Hawkshead, Cumbria LA22 0NT

Opening hours 8:50am - 3:15pm - Breakfast and after school club available.

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 October 2024

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30/09/2024
01/10/2024
02/10/2024
03/10/2024(1 event)

October Harvest festival

03/10/2024

October Harvest festival - donations of food to go to the Ambleside food bank

October Harvest festival

04/10/2024
05/10/2024
06/10/2024
07/10/2024
08/10/2024
09/10/2024
10/10/2024
11/10/2024
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15/10/2024
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17/10/2024
18/10/2024
19/10/2024
20/10/2024
21/10/2024(1 event)

Nasal Flu vaccine

21/10/2024

Nasal Flu vaccine

Nasal Flu vaccine

22/10/2024
23/10/2024
24/10/2024
25/10/2024(1 event)

Yoga with Carly

25/10/2024

Yoga with Carly

Yoga with Carly

26/10/2024
27/10/2024
28/10/2024(1 event)

HOLIDAY CLUB: Multi Skills

28/10/2024

Holiday club - Multi Skills

Holiday club - Multi Skills

29/10/2024(1 event)

HOLIDAY CLUB: Forest School & Woodland Craft

29/10/2024

Forest School & Woodland Craft

HOLIDAY CLUB: Forest School & Woodland Craft

30/10/2024(1 event)

HOLIDAY CLUB: Forest School, Pumpkin carving & Halloween Craft

30/10/2024

Forest School, Pumpkin carving & Halloween Craft

HOLIDAY CLUB: Forest School, Pumpkin carving & Halloween Craft

31/10/2024(1 event)

HOLIDAY CLUB: Halloween Party, Spooky Games & Risky Play

31/10/2024

Halloween Party, Spooky Games & Risky Play

Halloween Party, Spooky Games & Risky Play

01/11/2024(1 event)

HOLIDAY CLUB: Walk and Talk in Grizedale Forest

01/11/2024

Walk and Talk in Grizedale Forest

HOLIDAY CLUB: Walk and Talk in Grizedale Forest

02/11/2024
03/11/2024

Contact details

Tel: 015394 36354

Email: head@hawkshead.cumbria.sch.uk

admin@hawkshead.cumbria.sch.uk

Hawkshead Primary School, Main St,

Hawkshead, Cumbria LA22 0NT

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