Thinking Skills

Achieving excellent grades at GCSE and A level certainly gives a young person a great head start in life. However, an exclusive focus on this is not enough. To achieve highly at university and to become a successful, well-integrated member of society, it is characteristics and skills such as flexibility, creativity, initiative, tenacity, problem solving and critical analysis that are vital.

Northwood College's Thinking Skills initiative is a unique and innovative programme designed to foster and develop these skills and dispositions in each and every pupil. Combining focused lessons and courses in areas such as visual mapping, critical thinking, decision making, creative thinking and memory techniques, we believe it offers our girls the very best chance of maximising their potential.

This unique initiative extends throughout the school, from the Nursery up to Sixth Form.