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We focus on high-quality, personalised learning programmes. As a forward-thinking school, we quickly adopt proven educational ideas to improve teaching and learning. This ensures we remain at the forefront of international education.
Embedding Growth Mindset principles across the curriculum led to significant progress. Research by Stanford Professor Carol Dweck shows that ability and potential are not fixed. They can be developed at any stage in a supportive, well-organised learning environment.
Applying Growth Mindset at IBSB increased student engagement and enjoyment of learning. It improved classroom behaviour and relationships, and boosted progress across all subjects. Our pupils consistently achieve above the UK National Curriculum average. In 2020, 100% of IBSB graduates continued to university, with 87% accepted by top 5% universities worldwide.
After successfully applying Growth Mindset, we asked: what’s next? The answer was High Performance Learning (HPL).
HPL is based on research in cognitive psychology, gifted education, and neuroscience. It identifies the skills students need to become confident, independent learners.
The philosophy of High Performance Learning starts from the following key principles:
✔ High academic performance is attainable for everyone.
✔ We can systematically teach students how to be ‘intelligent’ and how to succeed in school.
✔ There are 20 generic characteristics which students need to develop if they are to become high performers in cognitive domains (ACPs) and 10 values, attitudes, and attributes (VAAs) that develop the wider learner dispositions needed for cognitive and lifetime success.
✔ HPL World Class Schools produce students that are both intellectually and socially confident, ready to succeed in higher education, in their future careers, and in life as individuals with a global outlook and a concern for others and the environment.
High Performance Learning provides a practical framework to transform learning. It involves students and parents as partners, continuing IBSB’s tradition of collaboration.
Fundamental to the success of the HPL framework is the seven support pillars of HPL, which together create a climate for success, reinforcing the professionalism of classroom teachers, while addressing what can be done at the whole-school level to optimise learning opportunities, individual support, and personal motivation.
At the base of the pyramid and the heart of the framework are the Advanced Cognitive Performance characteristics (ACPs) and the Values, Attitudes and Attributes (VAAs).
ACPs are essentially ways of thinking that students need to develop, whilst VAAs are the ways of behaving that students need to acquire, to become successful learners. Neither will deliver success alone, but together they create the magic to support our students become high performers.
It is our desire to provide our students with the very best learning opportunities, working closely in collaboration with our parents as partners and with other accredited HPL World Class Schools to ensure each and every student enrolled at IBSB receives a World Class Education to prepare them to meet the challenges of the future.
