clipped from: www.timesonline.co.uk The Tyneside comprehensive whose star pupil, Laura Spence, was rejected by Oxford is to teach all GCSE subjects in eight-minute bursts after finding that they boosted pupils’ results by half a grade.
The mini-lessons at Monkseaton community high school are interspersed with frequent breaks for sport or word games. The technique is based on neuroscience research which has found that the memory develops most effectively with short bursts of learning repeated at intervals.