Our Whole School Routines

Why?

• Our Whole School Routines are particularly powerful because human attention is so heavily limited—we can really only attend to one thing at a time. As a result, when a routine is in place, children end up needing to think less about the process of their learning, and so can think more about the content of their learning.  This is important, because what our pupils attend to is what they end up thinking about. And what they think about is ultimately what they end up learning.

• Prevent confusion or distractions in lessons or around school when different adults have different routines and expectations.

• Support all children to manage their cognitive load and ego-depletion through automating our whole school family routines and expectations.

• Free up working memory to focus on the learning rather than what children should be doing (e.g. how to sit, listen to others, write the date, ask for help, what you do at the start of a lesson, what to do when finished).

What are the routines?