It has been another exciting and busy week in the Primary School. The children are settled into the rhythms and routines of their new classes and year groups and it has been wonderful to see our corridor displays filling up with outstanding work across the school. 

This week in our Primary assembly, we continued the launch of the DC Learner Profile with a focus on the third aspect: seek challenges, embrace new experiences and grow from our mistakes. It is crucial that we support and encourage children to approach challenges with a positive mindset as they will face these every day! Making mistakes and getting things wrong is also an important part of the learning process and is not to be feared; an important message for all children to hear and understand. 

With Year 3-6 children, Mr Cann explored some famous and successful figures who have faced considerable challenges and made many mistakes along the way before achieving great success. The children learnt about Vincent Van Gogh who only sold one painting during his life but never gave up producing wonderful artwork, Beethoven who was told by his teachers that he would never be a successful composer and Serena Williams who grew up in a neighbourhood with very few facilities where she could train. Children were asked to consider the powerful quote: ‘hard work beats talent, when talent fails to work hard,’ along with the excuses we can sometimes use when learning feels difficult.