Life-Based Learning
Delivering subject content for pre-teenage children 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 aged 5 to 11 and offers a bold and imaginative vision for primary 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.
The LBL approach makes life itself the primary purpose of the 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 primary education.
Why we need to invest in our local swimming pools
The contrast could not be more jarring: just weeks after Team GB won a total of 25 swimming medals at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics (nine of which were gold), a report from Swim England is warning that 2,000 swimming pools in England could…
Children’s commissioner’s stirring call for a new settlement for children
The children’s commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, has just published the results of the ‘Big Ask’, the biggest ever survey of children anywhere in the world, with over half a million responses. In her foreword she talks of a “heroic generation ……
Agency and empowerment will help counter fatalism and climate anxiety
The morning rush hour commute was even more stressful than normal for thousands of motorists on Monday when climate change campaigners blocked five junctions of the M25. “They’re doing this,” said a protest group member on BBC Radio 5 Live, “because they’re desperate for…