Learning Buddies
Why Learning Buddies?
‘Learning Buddies’ provides an opportunity for our children to work with older/younger children in the school. Each room has a ‘partner’ class they are twinned with. Working collaboratively the children enjoy developing skills and knowledge with their partner class. The children really look forward to making new friends, often with children they would not normally encounter. ‘Learning Buddies’ meet once per half-term.
The children meet to share activities, stories and ideas, relating to a theme. This initiative helps all children to recognise the importance of ‘loving learning’.
What the children think!
‘Learning Buddies is a good way to interact with the younger members of St Helen’s. I enjoyed learning about their opinions.
‘I thought they were really nice and helpful’
' I liked seeing the older children and talking to them.'
‘I thought it was really good and fun.’
“We get to work together and I find it fun teaching the younger children.”
“It teaches us how to communicate within younger children.
“It is good for the younger children, because they learn new things.”
