About FLaT
What is the FLaT Programme?
The Future Learning and Teaching Programme was established to support and encourage pilot projects that challenged the current concepts of schools and explored new ways of learning and teaching.
What is the FLaT Fund?
The FLaT Fund was set up to support those local authorities, school clusters, schools and teachers in classrooms who had an innovative and exciting idea that they wished to pilot.
The most important outcomes were that the innovation embedded ways of:
- enriching young people’s learning experiences;
- promoting attainment and achievement;
- tackling barriers to inclusion;
- creating a learning and teaching environment that is sensitive to individual needs;
and is sustainable beyond the life of the pilot.
How much money is available?
The programme is now closed to new bids.
What kind of project is eligible?
The types of innovation that the FLaT Programme aimed to encourage are listed below: learning & teaching
- brain-based learning and multiple intelligences
- team teaching in the early years of secondary
- upper primary/lower secondary teacher exchanges
curriculum flexibility
- mixing age & stage
- alternative structures to the school day
- cluster approaches to learning across sectors
values & citizenship
- community involvement
- rights, duties & responsibilities
- mentoring and buddying schemes
learning & teaching environment
- classroom layout & organisation
- developing sustainable learning environments
- impact of school design and school furniture
learning for life
- developing collaborative learning approaches
- enhancing creative thinking, critical thinking
- supporting self efficacy
partnerships with parents, local business, enterprise, community & learning bodies
- integrating school learning with community and workplace learning
- parent led tutor groups
- using ‘hubs’ or ‘satellites’ for teaching and learning
How do I apply for funding?
The programme is now closed to new bids.