At Meadows First, we believe that there are many elements needed for children to become successful and independent learners. The school council worked alongside their classes to develop a ‘learning code’ for our school. They created ‘Meadows Mouse’ which represents someone who is ‘ready to learn.’ Here is our learning code.

   Be Organised

Children know that they need to organise themselves independently. They need to be organised each morning and bring to school everything they need for the day. Once in school, they need to take responsibility and organise themselves; for example; change their reading books if needed, fetch equipment that might help them to complete tasks in school, and remember to use the surrounding support (eg visual timetable) to help them during the day.

Be Focused

Children know that they need to use their good listening skills to help them learn during the day. They need to focus on their teacher so that they know what to do and how to do it. Children are living in the most intensely stimulating time; they are bombarded with images from television advertisements, websites, games consoles and mobile phones. It has never been so important to teach our children how to concentrate.

Be Enthusiastic

Enjoy yourselves. Make the most of every minute. If you attack each day with enthusiasm, you will feel confident to be the best you can be. You will make everyone else around you happy too!

Be Determined

Successful people have setbacks, failures, criticism and rejection but they always find a way around these problems. Children need to understand that failure is ok! We all fail sometimes but it is important to bounce back and try again! If we want to get excellent at something there are no shortcuts. Accomplishment is all about practise, hard work and trying to be the best you can be. Successful people always try to make good things great.