Cross-curricular Learning
4 July 2024 - Academic
This year, our academic Heads of Department launched a new whole-school cross-curricular initiative, a challenge devised to foster creativity and interdisciplinary learning. The brief invited our pupils to respond within a given subject to the theme of Gold and Golden using a wide range of skills and multimedia. The ultimate goal was to carry out independent research to produce and display inspirational work across the School.
Scientists in the Lower School looked at the ‘alchemy’ of Super Novas and in Mathematics, LIV looked at how the golden ratio can be found in nature, architecture, and art. Meanwhile, the English Department invited UIV pupils to contribute an original image or lines from literature or mythology. In Learning Enhancement lessons, the context of gold was applied to the stars of our world, thinking about role models with a profile of neurodiversity. The History Department embraced the golden theme by exploring two golden ages – the Islamic and the Elizabethan. Pupils tried their hand at Islamic art and calligraphy, and Elizabethan portraiture as part of their investigations. Given that Paris is holding the Olympics this summer, Modern Languages asked the LV to look into the biographies and accomplishments of Gold Olympic Medallists. Girls participated not just in academic lessons; the Philosophy Society discussed the Golden Mean proposed by Aristotle, linking virtue ethics.
We have a new theme for the Spring Term 2025 and look forward to celebrating and displaying our pupils’ intellectual curiosity and limitless imagination here at Wycombe Abbey.
Mr Luis Fuentes Olea
Head of Spanish
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