Building Learning Power | Pinfold Street

Building Learning Power - BLP

At Pinfold Street Primary School, we place learning at the heart of all that we do. Central to this is Guy Claxton’s Building Learning Power (BLP), which helps pupils become more effective learners both inside and outside the classroom. By equipping pupils with the skills, techniques, and vocabulary to talk confidently about their learning, we foster a culture where pupils understand how to learn, reflect on their progress, and develop resilience and independence.

BLP is built around four key learning principles, which we promote through engaging BLP mascots. Staff and pupils use this shared language daily to discuss learning strategies and how to improve. Pupils who are confident in their learning abilities and can articulate their learning processes tend to learn faster and more deeply.

The four (4 Rs) principles are:

Resilience

School Mascot - Roxy the Resilient Fox

Managing distractions – creating the best learning environment

Absorption – losing yourself in learning

Perseverance – keep going when things are difficult

Noticing – recognises patterns, rules and differences

Relationships

School Mascot - Relationship Rebecca

Independence – learning on your own

Collaboration – working well with others

Empathy and listening – listening to and understanding others

Imitation – useful copying

Resourcefulness

School Mascot - Ronnie the Owl

Questioning – asking valid questions

Making links – linking previous learning

Imagining – wondering what if

Reasoning – working things out methodically

Reflective

School Mascot - Rocky the Hedgehog

Planning – thinking about what to do and where to go with learning

Revising – being flexible and changing plans when necessary

Meta-learning – knowing how you learn best and the process of learning

Distilling information – pulling out the important information

Children are encouraged to flex their learning muscles in lessons and positive work in these areas is rewarded through BLP certificates, which are awarded in Friday assemblies. It would be great if you could use this common language at home when discussing learning with your child.