Learn For Life

This subject will comprise of 3 hours per week on the same day, and all spent with the same teacher. Learning for Life is based around the PLTS (Personalised Learning and Thinking skills). Our aim is to make pupils better: Independent Enquirers, Creative Thinkers, Reflective Learners, Team Workers, Self Managers and Effective participators.

Each lesson is built around these skills and a variety of content areas such as History, ICT, Geography and Citizenship.

Year 7 pupils will:

• Understand how they learn best

• Identify their own strengths and how they can improve in other areas

• Understand how their brain works and how to best use it

• Understand how to work as a team and learn from others around them.

The topics studied are

1. What is Learning for Life?

2. The Olympics

3. Crime

4. The Romans

5. My world

6. Lost generation

Schemes of work available for download below

• Learning for Life Schemes of workIntroduction.pdf (44.93 kB)
• Learning for Life - my world.pdf (34.28 kB)
• Learning for Life Schemes of work lost generation.pdf (40.49 kB)
• Learning for Life Schemes of workcrime.pdf (68.76 kB)
• Learning for Life Schemes of workRomans.pdf (55.05 kB)