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Activity-Bank-T-KS2-3

BLP Activity Bank Transition – Key stage 2-3

Introduction

The BLP Activity Bank (Foundation and Key Stage 1 Version) aims to assist teachers to:

  • Introduce pupils to their learning power
  • Help pupils to increase their use of effective learning habits
  • Infuse the development of learning habits into the curriculum
  • Recognise and plan for progression in learning power

The content is organised around the learning dispositions (sometimes known as the 4 R’s), and capacities described in Professor Guy Claxton’s Building Learning Power. Teachers using the Activity Bank should have at least a basic knowledge and understanding of these BLP ideas.

Structure

The framework of materials has two dimensions

  1. The themes and topics of learning power
  2. The types/approaches of activities to explore the topics

Themes and topics

Connecting activities

Stretching activities

Transferring activities

Learning
2 topics

Engaging activities to:

Introduce the topic

Establish the concept
by making connections
to familiar ideas

Deepen understanding
through use of
metaphor and
illustrations

15-20 mins
Warm-up Activities
Linking Ideas

Intriguing activities to enable
students to experience using
their learning muscles

15-20 mins activity

15-20 mins debrief

Stretching Activities
Resources

Reflective activities to enable
students to:

Identify the use of the
concept in their own life

Extend the language of
the concept

Assess the extent to
which they use the
concept now

Track when and how
they use the concept

Reflective Activities

Learning Log

Resilience
5 topics

Resourcefulness
6 topics

Reciprocity
6 topics

Reflectiveness
5 topics

Unit Materials

Unit Content

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