Page 5 - Healthy Habhit
P. 5
Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities by the end of Key Stage 2
Managing information Understand more than one point-of-view; Working with others
Examine options and weigh up pros and cons;
Be able to ask deeper and wider questions Become more independent in their social and
to clarify a task and to plan and set goals; Try alternative problem-solving solutions and interpersonal skills;
approaches;
Begin to challenge conventions and assumptions; Show that they can work in different roles in a
Use different types of questions systematically group and take responsibility for appropriate tasks;
Be able to classify, compare and evaluate and with purpose.
information and to select the most appropriate Be willing to help others with their learning;
methods for a task; Understand and learn to respond to feedback;
Being creative
Develop methods for collating and recording Work with their peers to reach agreements and
information and monitoring progress on a task;
Pose questions that do not have straightforward begin to manage disagreements.
Have a sense of audience and purpose. answers and seek out problems to solve and
challenge the routine method;
Self-management
Thinking, problem solving Use all the senses to stimulate and contribute to ideas.
and decision-making Experiment with different modes of thinking (for Evaluate what they have learned and
example visualisation); compare their approaches with others;
Show the ability to use memory strategies to See opportunities in mistakes and failures; Make links between their learning in
deepen understanding; different contexts;
Learn from and build on their own and others’
Identify and order patterns and relationships ideas and experiences; Become more self-directed by working on
through a range of strategies such as grouping, their own or with a group;
classifying and reclassifying, and comparing Value other people’s ideas;
and contrasting; Experiment with objects and ideas in a playful way. Learn ways to manage their own time;
Make and test predictions, examine evidence and Make ideas real by experimenting with different Seek help from a variety of sources;
make links between possible causes and effects; ideas, actions and outcomes; Work towards personal targets identified by
Discriminate between fact and opinion and Begin to develop their own value judgments about themselves or jointly with the teachers;
question the reliability of evidence. the merits of their work. Be more confident in their knowledge of
personal strengths and weaknesses.
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