“This was a very different offering to what we would normally do, it was really exciting for students to be involved. It was highly impactful to enable students to develop their thinking around their passions. The program had excellent delivery, and our students engaged really well with Charlie!”

“I liked learning how to combine the different pathways of thinking in ways that I never thought was possible and how no idea was considered bad, we were always encouraged to extend and develop our thinking. It's definitely taught me to think outside the box using all aspects of my learning and how they can co-exist”.

“Charlie asked great discussion questions that got us thinking - we worked on projects in groups and I liked the format of breaking down the learning into groups and subject topics. It made me a lot more aware of the connections and impacts of things- highlights that problems are not easy to solve, they have to be tackled in clever and alternate ways”.

“It was an introduction to a new way of thinking which I really enjoyed. I liked how the sessions felt like we were tackling real life problems. I thought it was a really insightful experience which made me view problems and how to solve them differently”.

It's exactly my way of thinking about the world, the problems in it, and the available solutions to them, and so I found it really easy to engage in the sessions. Charlie was really good at creating an open environment in which all opinions were valued, so it helped me have confidence in my ideas about the project and interdisciplinary thinking.

"At such a formative stage in their academic journey, it's vital that students are exposed to a broad range of subjects and ways of thinking. Too narrow a focus too early can limit their understanding of how disciplines connect in the real world. Interdisciplinary learning, like the programme delivered over the past six weeks, opens students' eyes to those connections and encourages curiosity beyond traditional subject silos.”

"We had a great introduction into how interdisciplinary learning manifests for our teachers, and some good examples of real world problems. It’s made us all eager to continue our interest in interdisciplinary learning and specifically how we can introduce it theoretically and practically into our classrooms."

As a scientist I've always tried to explain to students that the future of science is interdisciplinary in nature; but this made think about the wider context. I feel like this made my head explode thinking about all the ways this should be developed in school now.