Scrapping subject lessons? replaced by themes ...
I picked up this interesting report of a school in Totnes that has created a foundation year aimed at helping children to become good learners. Whilst the report claims they are scrapping subjects, the story affirms that children still cover the subjects, but not as silos. This follows the Cramlington Commmunity High School model that I visited last month, where learning to learn is having a huge impact, and reinforces my feeling that this approach is one of the most important advances in secondary education. The ICT connection in this post? ... rather tenuous I'm afraid, but technology has a vital role to play in self study and research.