Principle 1
Better Today Than Yesterday
All staff believe and expect they and their pupils can be better today than yesterday.
Principle
Encourage pupils to focus and celebrate on their own progress, however small, and not the progress of others.
Key language and behaviours
- Feedback focuses on self-improvement not attainment.
- The mantra 'better today than yesterday' is lived in the classroom.
- Growth is explicitly talked about and valued by all staff and pupils.
Questions
- Do all staff and pupils believe they have the growth mindset that they can be better today than yesterday?
- Is the mantra 'better today than yesterday' lived in the classroom?
- Is growth explicitly talked about and valued by all staff and pupils?
Embedding the Principles
- Encourage pupils to focus and celebrate on their own progress, however small, and not the progress of others.
- Feedback focuses on self-improvement not attainment.
Prompts
- Better today than yesterday.
- Believe. Improve. Achieve.
Beliefs, values and behaviours
- Always follow Rule 1.
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