How can I prepare children to be successful in life?” has often been a question that has kept me awake at night. What does and should “success” mean for a primary school child at the age of 11, especially when they are about to transfer to secondary?
Identifying the issue I faced at my previous school – a 250-pupil junior school in south London – was simple. Many of our children found it very difficult to talk about their learning. They seemed to lack the skills needed to identify what success means and what was required of them to move their work on – what we ended up calling “The Learning Habit”.
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