Opening Minds

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The Opening Minds website features complete information on the curriculum, how to apply as well as a learning community. 

What is Opening Minds?

RSA Opening Minds promotes innovative and integrated ways of thinking about education and the curriculum. Teachers design and develop a curriculum for their own schools based round the development of five key competences:

   1. Citizenship
   2. Learning
   3. Managing information
   4. Relating to people
   5. Managing situations

A competence based approach enables students not just to acquire subject knowledge but to understand, use and apply it within the context of their wider learning and life. It also offers students a more holistic and coherent way of learning which allows them to make connections and apply knowledge across different subject areas.

Opening Minds was developed and supported by the RSA and is now being used in over 200 schools across the country. Learn more on the Opening Minds website.

The RSA sponsors the RSA Academy in Tipton in the West Midlands which is dedicated and practising a curriculum based on Opening Minds. Whitley Abbey Community School, a business and enterprise college based in Coventry, became the first member of a new RSA Family of Academies that share best practice, work for school improvement and promote social justice in education.