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Red Oaks Primary School
BLP - Building Learning Power
Introduction Why BLP? The Learning Muscles

Introduction

Welcome to the BLP section of the Red Oaks website.
Use the tabs above to find out what BLP is all about and how parents, teachers and children can all work together to successfully develop Building Learning Power throughout the school!!

Red Oaks is a BLP (Building Learning Power) school. Teaching the children how to use these “learning muscles” is so important if we want them to thrive and to become independent learners whether it is in school, out of school or in their later lives.

4Rs and Learning Muscles:
Each Phase discreetly teaches, models and rewards examples of the following focus muscles. Class assembly time is used for this as well as termly House assemblies. Every learning space has a BLP poster with the relevant focus muscles starred.

Foundation KS1 Lower KS2 Upper KS2
Collaboration
Listening/Watching
Empathy		 Questioning
Making links
Noticing
Perseverance		 Planning
Absorption
Managing Distractions
Imagining
Reasoning
Imitation		 Revising
Distilling
Meta-learning
Inter-dependence
Capitalising

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The children’s use of BLP is rewarded with stickers (worth a house point each), house points and BLP Dudes each week in Celebration assembly
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Autumn 2022: Collaboration and Perserverance

Click to view our Turning Book
The year 5s really persevered to create these photos using perspective. They used their imaginations to alter the colouring and really capitalised on the resources and time that they had.
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Watch our year 5s collaborating to perform a 3way piece of music: ostinato, rhythm and pulse. 5e children are using their noticin skills to follow the music which is written on the board.
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Autumn 2021: What does BLP look like in action at Red Oaks?

Here are our Year 5s showing great COLLABORATION skills by working together to play Team Tag! They also needed to use their WATCHING and LISTENING skills so that they knew what to do as well as NOTICING where their 'prey' was to catch! Once caught, the children relied on their class mates' EMPATHY and KINDNESS to release them by ducking under their outstretched arms. View the video here

Look at these Year 5s COLLABORATING and MAKING LINKS with previous learning. They're MANAGING DISTRACTIONS too and they’re totally ABSORBED in their work.
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These Year 5 pupils are being so RESOURCEFUL and showing great PERSEVERANCE in order to complete these Science activities. What great COLLABORATION they're showing along side CAPITALISING on this learning opportunity.
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What does BLP mean and why do we use it at Red Oaks?
Watch our videos to find out and Look at our Year 5 Presentations
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What are the most common muscles?
Watch some of our pupils explaining the muscles to you.
Absorption
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Parent Building Learning Power workshop		 Perseverance
Parent Building Learning Power workshop		 Planning
Parent Building Learning Power workshop		 Managing Distractions
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Independence
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Parent Building Learning Power workshop		 Noticing
Parent Building Learning Power workshop		 Questioning
Parent Building Learning Power workshop		 Empathy and Listening
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How do we celebrate BLP at Red Oaks?
Ask your child or follow this link:
Classroom rewards & Whole School Celebration

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Have a look at our Turning Books:
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Have a look at the videos from our BLP Parent Workshop       Just what are our Learning Muscles?

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Find out how BLP works in each key stage across the school      Check out our Well Being suggestions

See our tips for Managing Distractions under 'What is BLP?'
We hope you find our site informative and interesting and welcome feedback at any time. If you would like to visit the school please do not hesitate to contact the school office any time. If you require paper copies of any information on our website, please ask at the office.

Red Oaks Primary School, Redhouse Way, North Swindon Learning Campus, Swindon SN25 2AN
Tel: 01793 493920 Email: admin@redoaks.org.uk

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