Like all learners, gifted and talented students need frequent opportunities to apply their skills and understanding, and to develop their knowledge, within a secure and flexible learning environment. The learning culture at Footprints Academy:

• values learners' own interests and learning styles;
• encourages independence and autonomy, and supports learners in using their initiative;
• encourages learners to be open to ideas and initiatives presented by others;
• encourages connections across subjects;
• links learning to wider applications;
• encourages the use of a variety of resources, ideas, methods and tasks;
• involves learners in working in a range of settings and contexts -- as individuals, in pairs, in groups, as a class,  and cross-year;
• encourages learners to reflect on the process of their own learning and understand the factors that help them to make progress.

 

Footprints Academy’s core mission is to help all students reach their highest potential.