Learning at St Edmund’s is underpinned by the High Performance Learning (HPL) framework, an evidenced-based approach to education, embraced by a growing number of world leading schools.
High Performance Learning blends academic confidence and attainment with the development of robust personal values, attitudes, and attributes to educate students as a whole.
Developed by Professor Deborah Eyre, the HPL framework is built on research which explores how people think and learn. By providing every single child the opportunity to achieve academic success and to live a life full of opportunity and fulfilment, HPL creates ‘room at the top’ for more.
At St Edmund’s, HPL sits at the heart of an intellectual, physical, emotional and spiritual education that creates self-assured young people, who are kind and caring, as well as astute problem-solvers and strategic thinkers.
St Edmund’s was officially admitted to the Fellowship and Global Community of HPL Schools as an HPL World Class School as of May 2024 – click here to see our press release on receiving this prestigious accreditation. We are currently embedding HPL across our curriculum; a process that will lead to accreditation as a world class High Performance Learning School. As a world class school, we have joined The Fellowship and Global Community of HPL Schools (FGC), a network of forward-thinking, inspiring educators.
In a HPL school, students develop advanced cognitive performance characteristics (how we think) alongside specific values, attitudes and attributes (how we behave). Together, these provide a strong foundation for academic and lifetime success.