This increase in diversity combined with increased collaboration is a key part of the recent White Paper, Schools - Achieving Success:

'The diverse system we want to build will be one where schools differ markedly from each other in the particular contribution they choose to make but where all are equally excellent in giving their students a broad curriculum and the opportunity to achieve high standards. Far from concentrating success in a few schools, diversity is about motivating individual schools, spreading excellence, sharing success and working collaboratively.'

A change of place can help stimulate learning. Of course not all movement has to be physical, as technology allows electronic links to be made to other places. Some schools are exploring alternatives to the traditional timetable and this is likely to increase in the future. A more flexible school day with more freedom for pupils to choose when they take breaks or eat lunch could allow pupils to study in their free time, after school or at home. This arrangement, with similarities to higher education or office work patterns, may be more applicable at secondary than primary level. The accommodation implications of these new ways of learning are discussed in Part 2. Variations in the organisational structure of schools are also emerging. All-age campuses are being considered as part of an attempt to make the learning sequence more seamless. Mixed-age teaching is possible, with older pupils helping younger ones, so reducing problems associated with the transition from primary to middle and secondary schools. School structures are being freed by ICT. Small rural schools, for example, can form federations which are linked .