Principle 6
No Artificial Ceilings
All pupils have the same opportunity for learning in an environment where all feel a sense of belonging, safety, value, and respect.
Principle
Pupils have a sense of belonging in the classroom when given the same learning opportunities.
Key language and behaviours
- Pupils have a sense of belonging in the classroom when given the same learning opportunities.
- Teachers sometimes need to suspend their own disbelief and fixed expectations.
- All pupils feel safe to make a contribution.
Questions
- Do all pupils have the same equitable learning opportunities in the classroom?
- Do all pupils feel safe to make a contribution?
- Do staff use language that suggests different expectations for some pupils?
Embedding the Principles
- Give pupils the same learning opportunities.
- Suspend disbelief and fixed expectations.
Prompts
- Belonging, safety, value, and respect.
Beliefs, values and behaviours
- Lowers, less able, highers, the red group, bottom set, nurture set.
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