Lindfield Learning Village: Public Consultation
As we learn more and more about the way children grow and develop in their thinking ideas about what the best learning environment will look like are having to change. This means we are due for a new way of looking at schools. If you have children at school locally, or have an interest in the direction education is moving, you may want to look just a little further afield, to the North Shore, to hear about a prototype that may shape our ideas about the modern school.
An exciting new education development will be going ahead at the former UTS Ku-ring-gai site in Lindfield, and the people designing it want your input to help it find the right direction. The lessons from this project may eventually reach out to other schools throughout NSW, or the whole of Australia.
An educational model for a school for now and the future in Lindfield is being developed by a group of educators, architects and community members committed to progress in education. Highly innovative ideas are being explored which place the needs of the learner at the centre of the educational model. These ideas include:
- Stage not age, allowing learners to move to progressively more advanced study according to their rate of progress rather than age.
- Vertical school structures facilitating schools within schools to foster engagement, a sense of belonging and which support wellbeing
- Project based learning where students explore real life questions which link outcomes across the NSW Board of Studies curriculum
- Pre-school to year 12 and beyond which will minimise the impact of stage breaks between schools and which allows links with universities and further learning
- Higher School Certificate over 3 years to allow students flexibility to achieve their full potential
- Global digital citizenship which connects students with their own learning, other learners, the local community and the broader global community
- Use of data to inform learning empowering students to understand their own learning progress through making thinking and learning visible
This project is still in its infancy, and needs the thoughts of people who care about education and the development of our young Australians.
An online survey has been set up HERE, where you can give your opinion on what is important to you in education.
The public consultation period is open until 18 August, but the following supporting events are also coming up, to give you the chance to find out more:
AFTERNOON TEA AND TOURS OF THE UTS CAMPUS
Where: UTS Campus, 100 Eton Road, Lindfield – Come to main entry
When: 3pm, Saturday 19 July
Who: All welcome
WORKSHOP WITH PROFESSOR STEPHEN HEPPELL
Where: UTS Campus, 100 Eton Road, Lindfield – L1 Conference Centre
When: 4-6pm, Tuesday 29 July
Who: All welcome
PUBLIC LECTURE BY PROFESSOR STEPHEN HEPPELL
Where: UTS Campus, 100 Eton Road, Lindfield – Come to Main Entry
When: 7.00pm, Tuesday 29 July
Who: All welcome
Numbers are limited to these events so please register your interest by going to the