PRIMARY
Learning Skills
Developing independence, resilience and a love of learning.
OVERVIEW
Learning Skills at KH8
Alongside our core curriculum, KH8 Primary students are explicitly taught and build a foundation of learning skills that they can utilise as they progress through the Senior School and throughout their careers. These skills — communication, awareness, inquiry and creativity — form the bedrock of independent, lifelong learning.
SKILLS FRAMEWORK
The KH8 Learning Skills Framework
Communication
- Collaboration Knowing how to manage yourself in the give and take of collaborative ventures; respecting and recognising other viewpoints and adding to and drawing from the strength of teams.
- Active Listening Contributing to others' experiences by listening to them to understand what they are really saying, and putting yourself in their shoes.
- Reasoning and Explaining Calling upon your logical and rational skills to work things out methodically and rigorously; constructing good arguments and spotting flaws.
Awareness
- Perseverance Keeping going in the face of difficulties; channeling the energy of frustration productively; knowing what a slow and uncertain process learning often is.
- Reflecting Being flexible; changing your plans in the light of different circumstances; monitoring and reviewing how things are going; seeing new opportunities.
- Noticing and Observing Perceiving subtle nuances, patterns and details in experience.
Inquiry
- Planning Thinking about where you are going, the action you are going to take, the time and resources you will need, and the obstacles you may encounter.
- Questioning Asking questions of yourself and others; being curious and playful with ideas; delving beneath the surface of things.
- Research The ability to independently locate and use relevant and accurate information drawn from a range of sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
