Okay, I confess. I’m a fan of Star Trek. I mention my predilection only because it will help explain the concept I’m about to talk about.
It’s Star Trek that first introduced the term “continuum” to me – the idea of time being linear. Shouldn’t a student’s progress be seen that way, as he or she makes their journey through compulsory education? Well it isn’t. Instead we break it up into arbitrary chunks called key stages.
Last week I worked with a partnership of schools and their local authority advisors to consider this issue. They want to adopt an approach to learning which is common to all their schools, one which encourages cross-phase collaboration.
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