At Amberley Parochial School, we firmly believe that all children and adults have the power to learn. As part of the rich soil that we provide, we need to be teach children how to learn effectively if they are to do so.  'Learning powers' refer to the collection of psychological traits and skills that enable a person to engage effectively with a variety of learning challenges. At Amberley, we want to build a culture that cultivates the habits and attitudes that enable our children to become better learners; face difficulty and uncertainty calmly, confidently and creatively. As a team, we have used the research of Guy Claxton and Shirley Clarke to inform the development of our own Learning Power characters, who embody the traits and skills of effective learners.

 The children are encouraged to acknowledge which learning powers they have used in order to progress and improve in their work. 

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We have also introduced the toolkit, designed by RE Today, to highlight tools that might be used as 'ways of knowing' and learning more about a subject. Across RE and the Amberley Immersion Curriculum, children make decisions about which tools might be most useful in answering key questions in their learning.