CLARA Learning Powers – Belonging

This week, we began to introduce the CLARA (Crick Learning for Resilient Agency) learning powers to the children. The CLARA learning powers describe the qualities, skills and dispositions of a lifelong learner. These learning powers are not fixed or static and like a muscle, we can grow and develop them with practice.

The learning powers also give children a language to describe and discuss their learning and themselves as learners.

We had a new friend join us at ELC this week – Tamoo. Tamoo’s super learning power is belonging. We all have this power too and Tamoo is here to teach and guide us on how to grow our belonging learning power individually and as a group.

We loved meeting Tamoo!

We discussed the people that love and help us and during our play investigations, some children chose to draw the people that support them most in their lives.

BELONGING AND THE EARLY YEARS LEARNING FRAMEWORK

BELONGING
Experiencing belonging – knowing where and with whom you belong – is integral to human existence. Children belong first to a family, a cultural group, a neighbourhood and a wider community. Belonging acknowledges children’s interdependence with others and the basis of relationships in defining identities. In early childhood, and throughout life, relationships are crucial to a sense of belonging. Belonging is central to being and becoming in that it shapes who children are and who they can become.

 

 

 

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