Week ending 18.2.22

Date: 15th Feb 2022 @ 9:55am

This week has been Curriculum Week. The children have been developing their Metacognition.

What is Metacognition - you ask?

The term metacognition refers to an individual’s ability to plan, monitor, evaluate, and make changes to their own learning behaviours in order to confront challenges more effectively.

You might have heard it defined as ‘thinking about thinking’,

It is also a form of self-regulation, involving self-awareness, critical analysis skills, and the ability to problem-solve.

Having metacognitive skills means that they are able to recognise their own abilities, direct their own learning, evaluate their performance, understand what caused their successes or failures, and learn new strategies.

It can also help them learn how to revise when they are having tests as well as  develop their memory, attention, activation of prior knowledge, and being able to solve or complete a task.

Overall- It makes them learn more efficiently and more effectively, and so they are able to make more progress.