Projects are made purposeful with research and enquiry taking forms that are as close as possible to those practised in the wider adult world. For example, children share books at book clubs (rather then be ‘heard’ reading to the teacher), they write stories over months and then publish these into books (rather than do pre-determined writing tasks in an hour or two in an exercise book with a theme dictated by the teacher), children work as (science, history, geography) research teams who might in the end share ideas through a range of media such as film; exhibition; written publication; theatre, etc. Working in this way is motivating, purposeful and empowering.
