Life-Based Learning
Delivering subject content through nine life themes
About LBL
We owe it to our children to equip them with the knowledge, skills and values to tackle the staggering challenges they will meet as adults.
Life-Based Learning (LBL) is aimed at children and young people and offers a bold and imaginative vision for education.
The LBL Approach
The LBL approach allows children to make the most of all aspects of life by integrating the subjects of a traditional curriculum into nine life-learning themes.
LBL makes life itself the central purpose of children and young people’s learning.
Blogs
Enjoy reading our blogs. We add new blogs at least twice a week.
Each blog is about a three-minute read: short and to the point. But they are still packed with evidence of the urgent need for change in education.
The upcoming Big Garden Birdwatch is a great way to introduce children to nature
This year’s Big Garden Birdwatch, organised by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), begins a week today, and it really couldn’t be easier to take part, even if you know next to nothing about birds. As it says on the RSPB…
Sir David shows that plants are just as interesting as animals
The Green Planet, the latest Sir David Attenborough-fronted natural history series on the BBC, has earned rave reviews — well, at least as far as the production and presentation are concerned. The visuals are (as ever) stunning and Sir David is a national treasure,…
Studying history helps us deal with conspiracy theories, lies and disinformation
Earlier this week the UN secretary-general António Guterres tweeted about the dangers of conspiracy theories, rumours and lies which are seriously hampering efforts to limit the remorseless spread of Covid around the world. The tweet included a graphic highlighting several questions that Guterres urged…