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.
Limiting screen time
Researchers say that there was an increase in screen time during the Covid pandemic affecting all age groups, and most noticeably in children aged six to ten. Screen time is the amount of time spent using a device with a screen such as a…
Reimagining education
A year-long education commission, which took evidence from more than 600 experts across fields including business, the arts and education, has recommended major changes to the education system in response to the challenges of the coming decades. Many of the report’s criticisms of the…
A collective approach to obesity
The UK government’s long-awaited food strategy, announced this week, has been widely criticised, including by its own food adviser. It comes in the same week that the charity Diabetes UK announced that the number of children being treated at paediatric diabetes units has risen…