Life Based Learning ™
Delivering subject content through nine life themes
About LBL
We owe it to our children to equip them with the knowledge, skills and values to tackle the staggering challenges they will meet as adults.
Life-Based Learning (LBL) is aimed at children and young people and offers a bold and imaginative vision for education.
The LBL Approach
The LBL approach allows children to make the most of all aspects of life by integrating the subjects of a traditional curriculum into nine life-learning themes.
LBL makes life itself the central purpose of children and young people’s learning.
Blogs
Enjoy reading our blogs. We add a new blog at least once a week.
Each blog is no more than a three-minute read: short, punchy and to the point – packed with evidence of the urgent need for change in education.
Children’s mental health services in crisis
A survey of 1,001 GPs across the UK who have sought urgent help for under-18s with mental health problems indicates that children’s mental health services have deteriorated over the past six years. 95% of the GPs surveyed said that mental health services for children…
Invest in music education
A leading classical musician is introducing an eye-catching initiative to widen access to music for children. The Chinese pianist, educator and philanthropist Lang Lang has announced plans to set up several ‘piano labs’ in schools, each with 20 to 30 keyboards. The first piano…
Helping children lead healthy lives
Shocking new figures released by the UK Office for National Statistics are a reminder that there is a massive gap in healthy life expectancy and in overall life expectancy between the wealthiest and the poorest areas of England. For example, someone born in a…