EducationGuardian.co.uk | News crumb | Wiltshire school abandons 'old-fashioned' homework
21-January-2005
permalink email thisPersonally I've long been in favour of abolishing secondary schools - as we know them - but at last we see someone saying something sensible about how education is 'delivered' in schools. Right on Mr Hazlewood.
"A comprehensive school in Wiltshire has just written off homework for 12 year olds deeming it, and the national curriculum, a "dinosaur".
EducationGuardian.co.uk | News crumb | Wiltshire school abandons 'old-fashioned' homework:
Personally I've long been in favour of abolishing secondary schools - as we know them - but at last we see someone saying something sensible about how education is 'delivered' in schools. Right on Mr Hazlewood.
"A comprehensive school in Wiltshire has just written off homework for 12 year olds deeming it, and the national curriculum, a "dinosaur".
Dr Patrick Hazlewood, head of the 1,450-strong St John's School in Marlborough, wants students to "manage their own learning" so that they learn to love learning for learning's sake.
Homework is "repetitious" and "generates marking that is often just a load of ticks and causes conflict at home," he said.
Instead, he has decided to test a programme thought up by the Royal Society for the Arts, which rejects the notion that a teacher's job is to transmit a body of knowledge to pupils."
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