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Growth Mindset in Y5:

We have been encouraging our Y5 pupils to develop a Growth Mindset and you may have already heard them talking about this at home.

Growth Mindset is simply an approach to learning in school and beyond. The principles come from years of research by Dr Carol Dweck of Stanford University. Her work points to people having two Mindsets: – GROWTH OR FIXED.

“In a fixed Mindset students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents etc. are just fixed traits they have a certain amount and that’s that and then their goal becomes to look smart all the time or never look dumb. In a growth Mindset students understand that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and persistence. They don’t think everyone’s the same or anyone can become Einstein, but they believe everyone can get better if they work at it”

Dr Carol Dweck

Developing a growth mindset can help to remove such ‘invisible barriers to learning as pupils begin to realise that we can all grow in our abilities through hard work, perseverance, and practice.