Dear all, Upon inheriting the Looking Glass from our predecessors, we identified a number of key issues. Firstly, there were simply not enough articles being published, due both to a lack of submissions from the school community and limited responsiveness from the previous Academic Team. Secondly, the Looking Glass had not been advertised or explained effectively enough to the wider school community. As a result, we plan to implement a more consistent and engaging stream of articles on the Looking Glass. As part of this initiative, we are looking to recruit a select group of keen writers from across the lower school who would be willing to produce one high-quality piece of writing, discussion, or media each month for publication on the Looking Glass. We believe this will be hugely beneficial both to the school community, which will gain access to a wider range of opinions and viewpoints, and to prospective writers, who will be able to reference their experience contributing to the Look...
MS L. GLYPTI I do not think many of us spend much time thinking about the obvious question of “ what is learning? ”. At least I hadn’t, until I attended the seminars at Oxford University on “learners and learning” during my PGCE and I was fascinated by the view of Barbara MacGilchrist that : “learning is not only an intellectual process, it crucially involves the development of personal, social and emotional skills and its success depends on the feelings, motivation and confidence of the learner” (MacGilchrist, Myers, Reed (2004)The Intelligent School). This complex but encouraging view of learning sparked my interest for further understanding of how learning happens, and this is how I came to know the immensely exciting concept of self-regulated learning (SRL). Self-regulated learning evolved over the last two decades from the theories and research on learning - at its heart is a belief that I passionately share, that one is capable of learning and that ab...