COLUMN: Dales pupils must be resilient to make it in the world

Today’s students will have many different jobs in their lifetime, many of which haven’t even been invented yet. This requires young people to have excellent abilities to learn new skills and to adapt continuously. In this column we’ll take a look at how we are approaching this at Highfields School and consider the role of the changing exams system.

A few years ago we began to develop a common language for learning at Highfields School. Drawing on wider research we developed our model of ‘the 5Rs’, which are as follows-

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