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Big Ideas encourage engaging activities that captivate pupils’ imaginations
• Big Ideas provide opportunities for innovation, enthusiasm, and individuality
• Big Ideas enable pupils to connect knowledge from different subjects together by seeing interconnections and relationships
• Big Ideas encourage risk and resilience, promoting the self- confidence and freedom to fail and keep trying
• Big Ideas encourage confidence in students’ own ideas, being original and imaginative about ‘what would happen if’
• Big Ideas promote the development of analytical skills: asking critical and challenging questions
• Big Ideas encourage innovative thinking: taking time for reflection and soft thinking
• Big Ideas encourage interaction and teamwork: sharing ideas and collaborating
• Big Ideas promote various approaches to the problem solving process: testing options and trying in different ways
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