PYP

Learner Profile Attributes

What They Are

The Learner Profile Attributes are a huge part of the Primary Years Programme (PYP) here at the Hundred of Hoo and we wanted to take some time to explain how they are used and what they actually mean.

The graphic to the right shows you all of the learner profile attributes and how they all work together to help create well rounded individuals. Some of the terms may be fairly easily relatable; others may be slightly harder to relate to. To help with this, we have included some definitions and a visual representation to help with understanding below.

How They Are Used in the Academy

Both in the Primary and Secondary parts of the academy, some of the ways these attributes are used are:

  • as part of everyday conversation with pupils

  • within assemblies (mainly when relating a theme back to the pupils or their own lives and experiences)

  • as part of lessons to explain an attribute or attributes that pupils will be specifically developing at a given point in a lesson

  • as a part of the school behaviour policy when rewarding pupils

  • in discussions with pupils when their behaviour let them down

And in many other situations than those listed here.

How They Can be Used at Home

Although these attributes are a part of what we teach and encourage at the academy, their use does not need to stop there. A number of parents have told us how they use them at home and we would like to encourage you to do the same. Some of the ways that you could do this is are:

  • use them in conversation outside of school

  • relate them to any conversation you have with your child/children about current events or behaviours witnessed

  • use them as a part of your own positive reward

  • discuss them with your child/children in any moments where they have particularly shone in these areas or perhaps where they have not given the best account of themselves

  • display them at home if possible (for example on the fridge)


Please let us know if you have any creative ways in which you use these or even if you have started using them in the above ways. We would love to be able to share this with the wider school community.

Mr Bullock - PYP Lead