School Principal Vanessa Jane Whay interacts with school leaders and teachers.
Doha: Durham School for Girls Doha hosted ‘High Performance Learning Showcase Event’, transforming the educational space and empowering all students to thrive in an inclusive high performance learning environment.
The theme for this year’s High Performance Learning (HPL) Showcase Event was ‘Education for a new world’. Durham School for Girls had the honour to be chosen as the hosting school for this event because of their academic excellence and creative way of implementing this learning approach throughout the whole school.
As the first and only all-female British HPL school in the Middle East their focus is to ensure that every student has the opportunity to not only receive an education but to excel in their academic development and ability. Durham School for Girls is delighted to be part of the HPL Middle East Roadshow and welcomed school leaders from around Qatar as well as Simon O’Grady HPL CEO to the school.
Everyone wants the best for their students; however education systems continue to assume that only a minority of students can achieve high levels of educational performance. Founded in 2001 by Dr Deborah and based on cognitive research, High Performance Learning provides conditions and attributes to steer and drive all children to be able to reach their full potential.
This raises levels of attainment within the school and gives the school a clear framework for their approach to Teaching and Learning. As a relatively new school, Vanessa Jane Whay explained how HPL was adding structure, consistency, and value in the school’s approach to teaching and learning. Children as young as three years old are beginning to understand how and why they are learning. Challenging themselves cognitively and believing in their own ability to succeed. In the conference school leaders heard, from the School Principal Vanessa Jane Whay, school leaders, classroom teachers and students. It was demonstrated how HPL was introduced and impacted learning and daily life in Durham School for Girls. Confidence for life is the schools’ moto and as a school it truly believes that every child can reach their full potential as a person in society and academically. Every child has the ability to learn, it’s how that leaning is approached, that ensures that Durham School for Girls embeds the HPL framework through the British Curriculum whist remain true to its core school values and Qatari Values.
This academic year Durham School for Girls Doha has also introduced the Dual Enrollment programme. This programme allows the students to have the opportunity to follow a traditional route to university through the British A levels, but also be able to take university credits live alongside their studies.
