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Personalised Learning

Jigsaw Learning is a personalised learning programme for children 4-10 years old. The benefit is that your child is FAST TRACKED and will be on an ACCELERATED LEARNING PROGRAMME.

Jigsaw Learning is a delightful, happy and secure place for children to enjoy learning from 4 to 10 years of age. The education side of the business is led by Catherine Holt, an award winning teacher and an ex head teacher of a primary school. Our teachers have solid experience of teaching for many years.

Philosophy

We believe that a child has only one chance and we make sure that the time spent at Jigsaw Learning is well planned and matched to the child's needs.

The child will be assessed. Not only will this assess the child academically but will highlight the preferred learning style. This helps us to maximize the child's progress. This is a free service to parents. The child will then be given a programme with targets and monitored.

Aims

At Jigsaw Learning we aim to build children's confidence, encouraging them to make decisions and develop their own independent learning skills. We aim to teach children how to learn and to make sense of their learning.

At Jigsaw Learning we modify children's feelings and actions by challenging and changing the way they think about things. A child who starts a task by saying "I can't, I'm just no good at it" is unlikely to do well. Success in learning, as with anything else, is very much related to a conviction that achievement is possible.

We encourage children to become more self-aware – to get them to examine their own thinking and consider just where their thoughts are leading them. Thinking "I'll always be hopeless at maths" is likely to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. But, if these sorts of negative thoughts can be recognised, then there is scope to change them.

The language we use also reflects and reinforces our thought patterns. So changing the words we use to express ourselves help us to change the way we are thinking. All teachers know that there is a world of difference between a pupil who says, "I'll try and get that homework done" and another who says "I'll do it tonight". That's why making pupils aware of the words that they use in relation to learning can help them to improve their learning.