OLGA Cathedral Primary School’s Active8 approach provides a daily structure for the delivery of our curriculum. Active8 seeks to develop confident, independent and responsible learners who benefit from genuine personalisation and choice in their learning whilst still receiving their full entitlement to a Broad General Education across all curriculum areas, delivered in creative and innovative ways.

The overarching pedagogy (the way in which we plan, teach, organise, facilitate and support learning) across OLGA Cathedral Primary School and Nursery Class draws on the work of Julie Fisher (2016) and exploits all three of the main contexts in which children learn:

ADULT-LEAD LEARNING: teachers focus children’s thinking
The adult has planned objectives/outcomes and stays with children whilst learning takes place.

ADULT-INITIATED LEARNING: teachers ignite children’s thinking
The adult sets up a starting point, invitation, provocation or stimulus with planned intentions and then stands back to wait, watch and wonder. Children engage independently until the adult joins to observe, interact or enhance learning.

CHILD-LED LEARNING: teachers follow children’s thinking
Resources, experiences and outcomes are freely chosen by the child and are under the control of the child. This may or may not involve direct interaction with the adult