Uniquely Thorpe Hall School – Celebrating Every Individual’s Academic Pathway to Outstanding Success
Do you really know how well your child is achieving against excepted national outcomes for their age and ability profile?
How much support does your child receive at school to help them to develop a positive academic growth mindset?
What reinforcing structures help your child’s social and emotional wellbeing at school, enabling them to have the resilience to achieve in the classroom and in 11 plus and GCSE examinations?
How important is it for your child to reach or outperform their academic ability?
Empirical evidence suggests that educational attainment nurtures people’s social outcomes and promotes active participation in society and stability. In addition, academic attainment can support returns that take the form of ‘market outcomes’ such as productivity or earnings and ‘non-market outcomes’ such as health, civic participation and, more generally, social capital.
A strong academic platform supports integration into next stages of a child’s educational journey. Small teaching groups play a major role in significantly enhancing academic confidence, developing a broader range of learning styles and have greater access to adults/teachers for support when needed. These factors are fundamental in success in later stages of education when academic challenge is much greater.
How much support does your child receive at school to help them to develop a positive academic growth mindset?
A positive self-image and feeling of self-worth helps learners to find ways to overcome academic challenges. It helps motivate children to recognise that there are no ceilings to what they can achieve if they put in maximum effort.
Motivated children, a safe and secure engaging learning environment and one where learners are feeling good about their abilities creates a culture where learning is a vibrant journey that fosters curiosity, creativity and critical thinking – all skills in high demand by employers today.
The small teaching groups at THS help to ignite passion, inspire innovative thought and supports opportunities for high quality collaborative experiences.
What support structures help your child’s social and emotional wellbeing, enabling them to have the resilience to achieve in the classroom and in 11 plus and GCSE examinations?
At THS we believe that a positive learning experience enriches children’s minds, and helps to make them more empathetic, informed and engaged individuals. Childhood wellbeing is essential for positive outcomes in adulthood, as is academic attainment. We offer a comprehensive platform for our learners to enhance their social and emotional wellbeing. Research examining children’s life satisfaction largely suggests a positive association with attainment.
Supporting emotional and social well-being is crucial for effective learning, as it creates a positive and conducive environment for students to thrive. There are several ways in which emotional and social well-being enhances the learning process:
The THS Curriculum Philosophy
At THS we embrace a growth mindset. When students believe they can improve and learn from their experiences, they are more likely to persevere through challenges and develop the resilience needed for future life success. They view failures not as insurmountable obstacles but as opportunities for growth and learning.
Our enhanced academic curriculum is designed to provide students with a more rigorous, engaging, and comprehensive educational experience. It often includes a variety of elements to foster critical thinking, creativity, and real-world application of knowledge.
The exhaustive THS co-curricular enrichment programme is a vital cog in the learning journey that our students enjoy. Offering clubs, competitions, and activities that complement the academic curriculum allows students to explore their interests in depth, acquire new skills and meet other like-minded children across the age range.
We have a clear strategic and very frequent assessment and feedback dimension to our curriculum map. Our students know how to improve, they are set ambitious targets and through the school’s bespoke aspirational goals for each individual child they simply expect to outperform – and they do!
The THS enhanced academic curriculum aims to prepare students not just for standardised tests, but for lifelong learning, critical thinking, and responsible citizenship in an increasingly complex world.
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