Breaking down the walls in schools

There's a lot of physical rebuilding going on in schools at the moment. This post from Euan McIntosh describes one experience of rebuilding the way a school works. I've been taking photographs for an LTL project called Hearts and Minds to encourage secondary school pupils to discover their heritage in school, and to encourage teachers to find creative ways to link heritage to many different school subjects. One of the things we've found is that the fragmented school day makes it next to impossible to support collaboration and integrated learning. It's on 'suspended curriculum' days that the H&M projects could really start to reach their potential. Or in smaller schools, and special needs schools, where closer team working and integrated curriculum planning seems to be more common and easier. Reading about this example from Norway was inspiring.