Pupil voice plays a huge role in everything that we do here at Hendrefoilan. Our children are involved in planning our topics and our weekly missions.

When we are planning a topic, we give our children a super starter, this is usually something very exciting and the children are keen to get going and to learn more. It is at the point we get the children’s input. They are involved in leading the learner and asking questions, which the teachers then use to plan the work for the term. This work is displayed in each class on our planning trees, where children’s questions are displayed on the top of the tree to start, when a question has been answered in their learning, the leaf then moves to the base of the tree. This is a really simple and effective way to ensure the questions are being explored.

As a school we are passionate about independent learning, in order to promote this, each week the children are involved planning the missions, again leading the learning to where they want it to go. This has had a huge impact on independence where children as excited to go and being their missions especially when they have chosen them!