Growth mindset

"Be prepared to take extra time and find more resources to help your child understand the lesson if they get stuck."

Wolsey Hall parent

Growth mindset is the belief that success depends on time and effort.

Ways you can support your child to have a growth mindset:

• Celebrate their mistakes. Explain that mistakes are marvellous! Noticing and correcting mistakes helps our brains to grow.

• End a sentence with "Yet". If your child says, "I can’t spell that.” Reply with “Yet,” in order develop self belief.

• Help your child to learn more about growth mindset. Class Dojo have put together a series of short videos on how to begin understanding growth mindset:

WATCH - Growth Mindset | Class Dojo (YouTube) Links to an external site. (aimed at students)

WATCH - Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset | Class Dojo (YouTube) Links to an external site. (aimed at parents/home tutors)

You might like to explore growth mindset even further at this stage. The Growth Mindset PowerPoint below will help you to do this with your child.

DOWNLOAD - Growth Mindset (PowerPoint) Download DOWNLOAD - Growth Mindset (PowerPoint)