23/10/2026
🦕💛 Three dinosaurs… one big goal… happy, confident, curious learners! 🌟
At WINS, we know that learning is about so much more than getting the right answer. It’s about having the confidence to explore, the resilience to keep trying and the curiosity to ask, “I wonder what would happen if…?”
Over the last week, we have been talking to our children about three very special dinosaurs who represent the Characteristics of Effective Learning.
These aren’t new to Wellfield! 💛 Our dinosaurs have been firmly embedded within our nursery provision for a long time, helping our youngest children understand how they learn and giving us a shared language to celebrate their growing skills.
In fact, one of the loveliest things has been hearing our Year 2 children recall being a ‘Tryosaur’ themselves! 🦕 This shows just how powerful these familiar characters can be in helping children understand, remember and talk about themselves as learners.
Because of this success, we’re excited to be extending the use of our special dinosaurs across the whole infant school, creating a shared language for learning that will grow with our children as they progress from nursery through to the end of Year 2.
🩷 Explorosaur – Playing and Exploring
Encouraging children to be curious, investigate the world around them, follow their interests and have a go, even when they aren’t quite sure what might happen.
💚 Tryosaur – Active Learning
Celebrating perseverance, concentration and the determination to keep going when something feels tricky. We want our children to feel proud of their effort, not just their achievements.
🧡 Thinkosaur – Creating and Thinking Critically
Supporting children to develop their own ideas, solve problems, make connections and discover that there is often more than one way to do something.
✨ This is child-centred learning in action. We recognise that every child is unique and that meaningful learning happens when children are active participants in their own learning journey.
Our role is to create the opportunities, ask the questions, offer encouragement and provide carefully planned experiences that help every child flourish.
And the best bit? These skills don’t stop at the school gates! At home, you can nurture them by giving children time to play, encouraging them to try again when things are difficult, asking open-ended questions and celebrating their ideas, curiosity and effort.
Because at WINS, we want every child to become a happy, confident, curious and independent learner, ready to embrace whatever comes next. 💛
🦕 Three dinosaurs. One big goal. A whole school of curious learners!
