The Learning Community

1. Prioritises people and their relationships

1.1. Has a shared vision, mission, beliefs and values

1.2. Builds mutual trust and respect

1.3. Establishes partnerships amongst all stakeholders

1.4. Collaborates

2. Lives Peacefully together - inclusive

2.1. Participates in intercultural experiences to challenge fixed perspectives and builds understanding

2.2. Values home, family and additional languages

2.3. Communicates effectively

2.4. Models the attributes of the Learner Profile - principled, caring and reflective community members

3. Key Consideration: What strategies might schools use to ensure that teachers/staff/community know and value their students strengths, needs, beliefs, perspectives, aspirations? What might this look like/continue to look like? essential agreements, journaling, celebrations, communication opportunities, student displays, reflection

4. Key Consideration: Schools will need to provide evidence that The Learning Community assumes shared responsibility for learning, health and well being. Peaceful living has been identified as being represented in the attributes of the Learner Profile - principled, caring and the document included reflection, although it now permeates the teaching and learning programme.

5. Key Consideration: Learning environments are most effective when all community members are included and engaged - evidenced through developing shared vision, mission, beliefs and values, flexibility in meeting times, language support for groups within the community, a variety of feedback and reflection models to support genuine consultation and decision making, boards/governing councils are representative of community groups, policies.

6. Collaborates

6.1. Teacher and Students

6.1.1. Teachers/community value and know their students strengths, needs, beliefs, perspectives, aspirations

6.1.2. Develop partnerships through collaboration, shared planning and decisions about learning

6.1.3. Reflect and share feedback

6.2. Teachers and Colleagues

6.2.1. Plan, learn and assess together

6.2.2. reflect and review to ensure effective teaching

6.2.3. develop trust and respect through open, honest professional dialogue

6.3. Students and Peers

6.3.1. learn how to interact socially to build and maintain friendships

6.3.2. learn collaboratively

6.3.3. take collective action

6.3.4. value teachers as facilitators and activators of learning

7. Shares responsibility for learning, health and well being

7.1. families, parents, guardians, wider community members are actively involved in the life of the school, making decisions, supporting learning

8. Key consideration: Although collaboration has always been an inherent aspect of the programme it has now been more succinctly defined to be inclusive of the whole learning community. Our thoughts are that schools that did this well previously might/could have got a commendation for this in a school visit. This will now be expected practice.