Learning at London Scandinavian School

Learning at London Scandinavian School begins with the academic framework laid out in the British National Curriculum and applies the Scandinavian values and pedagogical principles that drive our core pillars of presence, nurture, play, relationships, and responsibility.

From these pillars, our teachers have developed unique learning models that support individualised lessons that support both a child’s personal and academic development.

Our Core Pillars

  • Presence

    Setting and maintaining an enabling environment for a engaged mindset.

  • Belonging

    The ongoing actions that support our culture of kindness, responsibility, resilience.

  • Play

    How can we make this fun and interactive? Can we improvise? Exploration and experiential.

  • Trust

    The bonds that support partnership in which children feel safe and heard.

  • Responsibility

    Aligning our learning with values.

  • Relationship-based Assessment

    Our teachers able able to track each individual student’s progress through observational, self, and benchmark assessments on an ongoing basis so that children remain comfortably challenged.

  • Planning-in-the-Moment

    In Preschool and Reception, we build on Anna Ephgrave's framework that identifies a child’s spark and then creating teachable moments to further learning.

  • Enquiry-based Learning

    Each term includes a question that teachers are asked to create lesson plans in which children are invited to ask and answer the question in different ways, challenging them to interact with the subject matter in more meaningful ways.

Scandinavian Foundations

At London Scandinavian School, our qualified teachers blend their lived experiences and specialised training to seamlessly infuse the values that are popular in Scandinavian culture into learning models that support lifelong learning.

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  • Danish

    The feeling of being together and belonging to a community.

  • The feeling of safety when a process can be predicted or calculated in advance

  • Danish

    A quality of cosiness that makes a person feel content and comfortable

  • Danish, Norwegian

    Being present together and engaged in the moment.

  • Swedish

    No too much, not too little, the right amount; balanced

  • Jante’s Law, code of conduct created in fiction by the Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose that promotes egalitariansim.

  • Danish

    The feeling of calm, safe and ready to learn.

  • Danish

    Learning outside in nature.

  • Danish

    Room for everyone