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Building a Culture of Enquiry in Primary Education

Explore the comprehensive Cambridge Primary Review covering pedagogy, assessment, childhood, and more. Join a national network shaping a growth mindset in education. Encourage respect, empower citizenship, and engage students to think without limits. Embrace creativity, interdisciplinary learning, and high expectations. Dare to excel beyond traditional norms. Will your classroom break free from ability labels?

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Building a Culture of Enquiry in Primary Education

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  1. Children, their World, their Education Learning without Limits Inspiring a growth mindset for all

  2. The Cambridge Primary Review • The most comprehensive study of primary education since the 1969 Plowden report. • A research review of pedagogy, assessment, CPD, childhood, learning, curriculum, school community

  3. Dissemination Phase A national professional network building a culture of enquiry underpinned by the principles of: equity, empowerment, expertise and excellence.

  4. Building a sense of agency

  5. Children • Well being • Engagement • Empowerment • Autonomy Twelve aims for primary education

  6. Their world • Encouraging respect and reciprocity • Promoting interdependence and sustainability • Empowering local, national and global citizenship • Celebrating culture and community Twelve aims for primary education

  7. Their Education • Exploring, knowing, understanding and making sense • Fostering skill • Exciting the imagination • Enacting dialogue Twelve aims for primary education

  8. Learning without Limits • A study of teachers who rejected fixed ability labelling ‘Learning without Limits’ (2004) • ‘Creating Learning without Limits’ 2012

  9. Thinking differently about professional learning

  10. Building expertise ‘Cognitive challenge is essential in all teaching’ ‘The message is clear: expect more, teach better, and children will respond’

  11. From recipe to repertoire • Shared aims for primary education • Professional knowledge • Research evidence Pedagogy of principle rather than prescription.

  12. Curriculum domains • Arts and creativity • Citizenship and ethics • Faith and belief • Language, oracy and literacy • Mathematics • Physical and emotional health • Place and time • Science and technology

  13. Breadth and balance ‘The assumption that standards and breadth are incompatible – which has been fostered by politicians and which many of them still believe – is utterly unfounded’

  14. The research engaged school Formative assessment of science • Anne Goldsworthy • Professor Mary James • Jane Turner Bayfordbury Science Centre • Primary and secondary colleagues

  15. Assessment • NC Levels or a mastery orientation? • Co agency • Trust • Everybody ‘Creating Learning without Limits’ (2012) Swann, Peacock, Hart, Drummond

  16. A culture of learning • Leadership of learning • High expectations • Dialogue • Trust • Partnership with families • Engagement • Community

  17. Creativity

  18. Action Research • Partnership with universities • Learning through observation and reflection • Discussion • Local networks • Science Centres • Teaching Schools

  19. Innovation

  20. Excellence is about: Caring more than others think is wise Risking more than others think is safe Dreaming more than others think is practical Expecting more than others think is possible. African proverb

  21. Will your classroom be free from ability labels?

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