On Thursday 12th March we were privileged to have Barbara Arrowsmith, the creator of the Arrowsmith program, visit Sacred Heart.

The Arrowsmith Program is based on the application of neuroscientific research and for 40 years has helped students strengthen the weak cognitive capacities underlying a range of learning difficulties.
Barbara met with our principal, teachers and our Arrowsmith cohort and answered student and parent questions about the program. As well as taking us through the key findings of the latest independent peer reviewed research study published in “Learning Research and Practice” in 2019 which showed that test subjects who had participated in the program had changes in brain activity and connectivity, cognitive functioning, acquisition of cognitive skills, rate of learning and social and emotional well-being.