Speaking of Harry Potter…

An elementary school in Nottinghamshire, England has jumped from the bottom 25% of schools nationally to just outside the top 5% over the last three years deciding to let students pick a theme for the curriculum every year. Naturally they picked Harry Potter!

The Daily Mail has the details…

This term has seen the seven to 11 year olds learning subtraction with the help of a Potter-esque “spell”, writing their own plays based on the best-selling books and even keeping fit by pretending to get on and off imaginary broomsticks.

Year classes have been named Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin, after the school houses at Hogwarts, the wizards’ school attended by Harry in the novels and hit movies.

The children wave wands as they join in the fun of learning and staff have got in the spirit of things by donning wigs and costumes.

Perhaps someone should suggest this at the next Decatur charter school meeting…

Hattip: The Leaky Cauldron

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