One school in Lincolnshire went from being one of the worst in the country – the bottom of the class – to being one of the best in the nation.
Seven years ago, children were running riots. Today, the school has received an Outstanding from Ofsted for its new model of teaching. ‘Immersion learning’ means that desks and chairs aren’t anywhere to be seen inside the school. Instead, classrooms reflect what the children are learning about and resemble farms, chocolate worlds out of Willy Wonka and forests.
Other schools are catching on too. Hartsholme Academy is intensively working with about 40 other schools to implement this teaching structure and hopes to reform the current education system.
