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Swanbourne House innovative learning programme with Swanbots | Buckinghamshire Co-Ed
Swanbourne House

Swanbots

“Swanbourne House innovative learning programme with Swanbots | Bucks

At Swanbourne House School, we are proud of our progressive and dynamic approach to education. Alongside excellent academic foundations, we help pupils develop the skills and character traits they need to thrive at school, in senior education, and in their future careers.

To make these skills engaging and meaningful for our younger pupils, we created the Swanbots — a set of fun, cartoon characters introduced in Manor House (Reception to Year 2). Each Swanbot represents an essential learning behaviour, from resilience and teamwork to creativity and reflection.

The Swanbots give pupils a visual and interactive way to recognise their own strengths as learners, and to see how skills like perseverance, collaboration and independent thinking apply every day. They feature throughout classrooms, in displays, lesson activities and reward stickers that celebrate progress.

All the Swanbots were named by Swanbourne House pupils.

Sparky is always thinking about creativity and problem-solving, recognising the need to use their imagination, trying alternative ideas and making connections between different things they learn.

Ponder takes time carefully to consider methods, circumstances and outcomes. They have a good sense of what they are good at and what they need to work on to improve, they know what to do when things go wrong and how to make progress, and they enjoy learning from mistakes rather than fearing making any. Ponder is always happy to listen to constructive comments from others and takes on board that feed- back to help improve.

Rubble perseveres when things get tricky and continues to try again and again until they reach their goal. Rubble draws upon and refines different strategies when stuck, always learning from mistakes and rising to the challenge of an obstacle.

Spirit is the values swanbot that rewards pupils who show the values we expect at Swanbourne House.

Solo is full of independence and curiosity and often wonders why things happen and how things work. They are proactive at finding out the answers to these questions for themselves through independent study. Solo also enjoys bringing their independ- ent learning into group discussions for the benefit of the whole team.

Buddy is all about collaboration and communication. They listen to others and respond respectfully and make compromises. They share skills and ideas, and recognise that the best way to support a team is through encouragement, positivity and support. Teamwork makes the dream work!

Kit is well-organised and takes responsibility for their learning. They work efficiently to meet deadlines, plan tasks effectively and motivate them- selves to get the job done. Kit is flexible and knows which skills to apply in different situations.