Learning Expeditions

Our Approach to Interdisciplinary Learning

WHAT IS INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING? 

Interdisciplinary Learning (IDL) is an approach that brings together teacher co-planning, facilitation skills and a focus on giving learners the thinking skills they need to handle additional responsibility for their learning. 

It is a planned experience that brings disciplines together in one coherent programme or project. The different disciplines plan and execute as one. 

These disciplines might fall within one curricular area (e.g. languages, the sciences) or between several curricular areas. IDL enables learners to:

• learn new knowledge or skills, and develop new understanding of concepts

• draw on prior knowledge, understanding and skills

• transfer and apply that collective knowledge to new problems or other areas of learning

In St.Cadoc's, we truly value children as authors of their own learning and our approach to interdisciplinary learning reflects this. All children take part in "Learning Expeditions". The whole school have a theme and children explore this through sharing their wonderings, posing questions and finding out the answers together as a class. Each class goes on their own personalised expedition and the findings are shared in a celebration with family, friends and classes across the school. More information regarding our Learning Expeditions can be found in the powerpoint below which was recently shared with other schools across East Renfrewshire Council and The West Partnership.