What is to be gained from cross-curricular studies?
Direct teaching of essential subject content is crucial but not sufficient. There will be times when discrete subject teaching is required and times when well-planned, challenging, cross-curricular studies are required. This provides opportunity for children to use and apply what they have learned from discrete teaching, for example, in English, maths and ICT. Subject teaching and cross-curricular studies are complementary and act together to benefit children’s learning. It is what happens now in the majority of our best primary schools.
