Exam success and the character traits pupils need for life “cannot be uncoupled” the headteacher of an award-winning school has said.
Tapton School in Sheffield is helping pupils to develop lifelong learning behaviours and skills by tracking their “resilience, reflectiveness, reciprocity, resourcefulness and respect”.
Its innovative system has proved so successful that it recently won one of the Department for Education’s (DfE) new Character Awards.
The 1,650-pupil school, rated as outstanding by Ofsted, is one of 27 schools and organisations to each win £15,000 for their work in promoting traits like grit and resilience in students.
Education secretary Nicky Morgan will announce the overall winner, who will receive a further £20,000, at a ceremony in London on Monday (March 16).
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