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In Early 2022, our HPL mentor, Ranganayaki Ma'am along with Dariush Sir created the HPL student team of our school, and soon we began our work combining our talents and passion in different fields together. She kept telling us about her HPL party bus.

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We then began propagating the idea of HPL around the school through posters, linking it with ACPCs and VAAs and sticking it at common areas around the school.

Students came to know us as we took the first step to establishing our identity and making an enormous change to fuse HPL values in our classrooms.

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BY and FOR Students: HPL Classwise Awareness

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BY and FOR Students: HPL Classwise Awareness

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We also conducted classwise awareness sessions about HPL to help our fellow students gain a deeper understanding about its application and its importance.

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We worked, collaborated and integrated our ideas to make the HPL Assembly a reality. A special assembly about HPL was conducted by the HPL Club of GMAK with the help of our dear mentor, Ranganayaki Ma'am.

We presented all the ACP's and VAA's in the simple yet fun way and linked everyday tasks in life to the core values of HPL as we knew from our META-THINKING leaning that it would be good strategical planning to connect the new learning to something our peers already knew.

Students of GMAK got enriched by the values of HPL and this allowed us to move forward with a common vision.

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The Diwali Carnival conducted at GEMS Modern Academy - Kochi to raise money for charity was indeed a grand success.

Students united together and strived for excellence as the 4 houses of GMA Kochi presented wonderful items for sale including fun games and food items.

This very event was the epitome of unity and brotherhood among students of GEMS Modern Academy to unite and stand together and fund money for charity that may aid thousands of people in India.

The VAAs of empathy, agility and hardworking was displayed by all students for a common cause. We had to listen to the views of others, be willing and able to work in teams, demonstrate citizenship, deal with new challenges, experiment with novel ideas, work diligently and work systematically, remain confident, focused, flexible and optimistic.

A total of 1 and a half lakh Rupees was raised and all proceedings was given to charity.

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The very first subject for the HPL application for me, was Math itself.

As soon as students became familiar with the HPL values, they were able to work hard, analyze, connect and link math to various other subjects and topics like real life application.

Flipped lessons were conducted, where we students took charge of the teaching process and presented various math topics in class. This way, both the student teachers and the students become proficient in the subject.

I think Radha mam was Risk Taking as she was able to tolerate the uncertainty of giving some of the learning over to us.

Through HPL, a whole new realm was created for exploration and students began to be more empathetic and act agile, putting themselves in others shoes.

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Our dear teachers in the ICT department of our school conducted IGNITION ‘22, an ICT fest designed to “Ignite your thoughts” and give all Gen Z tech wizards a chance at various events.

We the HPL members were involved in the felicitation of various events including HPL Cognitive Characteristics and Attributes.

The competition kickstarted on a spectacular note, with a logo making competition among students of grades 1-12.

Skills like analysis, creativity, thinking and design were put to the test. Students had to fluently think to generate ideas and be original as they conceived new things entirely!

Short-film making, Game Development, Robotics through the usage of STEM, Audio Editing and VFX are some skills nurtured by students as young as Grade 1.

ACP Characteristics and the VAA’s stands at the very essence of IGNITION 2022, involving aspects like Engineering, Science and Technology.

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Our little Gems in KG celebrated HPL today where they dressed up as their favourite characters and identified with key ACP & VAA language and straplines in celebration of Children's Day.

The students were able to identify as being Empathetic, Agile, Confident and Open Minded.

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Soon we began collaborating and enquiring. We developed our own view that it would be best to create our own unique logos involving HPL in our school and that we would launch with an assembly.

We came up with the theme : Greek Gods and Mythical Creatures as we felt they closely resembled our HPL VAAs and ACPCs.

For example:

We took the Greek god Janus for the Linking ACPC as all forms of transition and connections came under his purview.

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Infinitum’ 22 - REALISING THERE IS NO LIMIT

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Infinitum’ 22 - REALISING THERE IS NO LIMIT

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Infinitum 22 was conducted at the very core of HPL Values and Attributes, linking mathematics to simple things like geometry in nature, creating of patterns in nature etc.

Infinitum allowed students to explore the world from different perspectives, from creating of human figures using Zentangle to finding geometric patterns in simple things like nature.

We the HPL members got a chance to teach math to our little GEMS from KG1 - Gr 5. Their ability to realize was amazing. They worked at speed and with accuracy - calculating complex problems in a second or two was mind blowing!

INFINITUM 2022’s main goal was to link math and showcase that math was indeed a part of our day to day life, while sparking meta thinking and analyzing in children through various tasks. It showed that math is indeed a fun subject to begin with!

When it comes to exploring math in our day to day life - the sky is not the limit!

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We announced our new Vision Statement, created and developed recently with contribution and engagement from all staff.

We are empowering, caring and committed to inclusivity. Inclusivity means we accept and respect everyone from our diverse school population. Inclusive systems value the unique contributions of all students and allow all to grow, to the benefit of all.

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Our absolute go to!

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We look for direct reference of and to HPL language

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When Monitoring Teaching and Learning Quality. Our Leaders will always use the pure and totalitarian DFE Teaching Standards without adulteration. However, we do routinely look for and feedback about HPL. In this lesson our MLT commented:

WWW- Such a positive atmosphere in the class; real love of learning of the subject is clear. Lovely to see students taking responsibility for encouraging others to listen and be ready for the performance. High standards were evident throughout. Effective use of non-verbal to maintain discipline. Lovely to see peer assessment using WWW and EBI. Impressive reference to HPL values with students actively offering them

EBI- Ensure that all are clear on the HPL values as some had doubts but not all were listening to the explanation as it was the close of the lesson.

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GMAK Lesson Obs 2022-2023 - Google Forms

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This is our everyday sort of lesson. Clear use of LO & Success Criteria. Clear and deliberate use of the HPL ACP and VAAs in Planning, Delivery and Evaluation. French Lesson

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Dhruv - A Reflection about Art and LINKING!

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Dhruv - A Reflection about Art and LINKING!

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Donna - Gr.3 Lead. HPL and IB in action.

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Donna - Gr.3 Lead. HPL and IB in action.

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Ken Robinson believed that creativity and the arts remain central to human improvement and innovation and have the ability to empower students. HPL defines creating as intellectual playfulness, flexible and fluent thinking, originality and (r)evolutionary thinking.

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GMUN (GEMS Model United Nations) was conducted to help simulate conferences at the United Nations to give each and every delegate a chance to speaking their way in and shine with their talents.

Prior to the big day, students worked hard to compile their valuable research and strive for greatness as they unleashed their undying agility.

This initiative, incorporating the very key aspects of both VAA's and ACPC's was a student led event conducted by students of Grade 12, with the support of our teachers.

The event was a grand success. We had to collaboarate by presenting our own views and ideas clearly and concisely and played a variety of roles. We were concerned for society  to recognize differences as well as similarities between people and peoples, be aware of our own and others’ cultural heritage and sensitive to the ethical and moral issues raised by each countries delegates.

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students achieve more when there is a strong and positive connection between home and school. If you are really keen to find out how you can be a high performing parent you could read the book great minds and how to grow them by Wendy Berliner and Deborah Eyre.

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The Gallery Walk at GEMS Modern Academy is an event in which we take immense pride.

It's a time when our little Gems are encouraged to exercise Learner Agency through voice, choice and ownership of their understanding.

Parents attended the event where the children showcased and shared their activities and understanding as they took their parents and peers through their work.

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A perfect blend

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Thank you Kim and Team

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Feedback is a multi-faceted and broad encompassing term. One thing that is widely accepted is that by giving specific and clear ‘feedback’ to learners on their work helps them understand their performance and what they need to do next. Feedback also helps students understand the standards against which their work is being judged, enabling them to become better in the future at judging their own performance. A better term for the guidance given to students to help them improve their work is ‘feed forward’. This is because it is about providing effective feedback to help the learner improve their next pieces of work – to prompt them to think about ‘What’s next?’ As Hattie and Timperley (2007, p. 86) argue, effective feedback should answer three questions for the learner: ‘Where am I going?’, ‘How am I going?’, ‘Where to next?’ Feedback works in three directions:

1. Teacher to learners – the teacher gives guidance to learners about their current achievement and the next steps they need to take.

2. Learners to teacher – the teacher receives feedback from learners about their learning.

3. Learner to learner – peer assessment

What we know is that all feedback at GMAK should be underpinned by HPL Language

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The HPL ambassadors want to create some really bespoke big HPL inspired creatives around campus. Procurement is under process. Plans are starting to take shape. Monsoon is nearly over.

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Everyone has a PD Target to the effect of: HPL philosophy and language is embedded and clearly visible through the characterization of the ACP’s and VAA’s

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The standars that underpin our SEF and SDP

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Integrating IB and HPL. Identifying as High Performers and Why.

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Behind the Scenes with Admin and Ops! Making our Banners

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Behind the Scenes with Admin and Ops! Making our Banners