据《悉尼晨锋报》报道，在悉尼最不同寻常的公立学校，学生的年纪不会限制学习内容，青少年和学龄前儿童将在一起学习，而Skype中心将使得他们与全世界的同龄人每日保持联系。

这并不是白日梦。悉尼科技大学（UTS）的Kuring-gai校区将转变成全澳洲最具有创新意识的公立学校。这一公立学校被称为林德菲尔德学习村（Lindfield Learning Village），幼儿园、小学和中学将结合在一起，最终可能还会有大学课程。它可以招收3000名学生。

新州教育厅、建筑设计公司BVN Donovan Hill将与世界当代教育领袖英国学者赫佩尔（Stephen Heppell）一起，在悉尼南部建立这一学校。

地点已经选好，是悉尼科技大学在林德菲尔德 Lindfield 的一栋大楼。这一建筑在1978年赢得了极具声望的约翰•萨尔曼爵士勋章（Sir John Sulman Medal）。

作为土地交换，悉尼科技大学将在明年将这一建筑交给教育厅。

它将于2017年重新开业。

赫佩尔教授是知识学习方面的国际专家，他将于周二在林德菲尔德校区做公开演讲，这是早期咨询活动的一部份，其他的活动还有现场参观、研讨会和网上讨论。

赫佩尔教授说这一模型并不是实验性的，而是建立在最成功和恰当的指导之上，对学习者、教师、健康和成绩都更好。

他还表示方案包括将学校开发成学习村，适用于任何年纪的学习者，在大学校内创建小学校，注重按阶段而非按年级来学习，确保学校有丰富的技术设施，注重全球视野。

虽然网上论坛鼓励教育者、学生和社区考虑所有的选项，新州公立学校负责人艾什（Meredith Ash）称，学校将关注“学生的学习阶段，而非年纪”。教育厅第一阶段的公众咨询将于8月18日结束。

UTS campus becomes innovative public school

July 28, 2014

Alexandra Smith

In one of Sydney's most striking public buildings, the age of students will not dictate what they learn, teenagers and preschoolers will study together and Skype hubs will put students in daily contact with their peers around the world.

It is not futuristic dreaming.

These are some of the ideas being discussed as part of the transformation of the UTS Kuring-gai campus into Australia's most innovative public school.

Dubbed the Lindfield Learning Village, the school will have a preschool, a mixed primary and high school that may eventually include university-level subjects.

It may cater for 3000 students.

The NSW Department of Education and architects BVN Donovan Hill are working with a world leader in contemporary education, British academic Stephen Heppell, on the model for the much-need school in Sydney's north.

The site has already been secured.

The UTS building in Lindfield, which won the prestigious Sulman Medal for architecture in 1978,will be handed over to the department next year as part of a land swap with the university.

It will reopen in 2017.

Professor Heppell, an international expert in learning spaces, will be in Sydney on Tuesday to give a public lecture at the Lindfield campus as part of the early consultation process, which includes site tours,workshops and online discussions.

"We are putting together a unique recipe, on a uniquesite with a unique community," Professor Heppell said. "We have this gorgeous space and there is something special about pinching a university premise and giving it to children."

Professor Heppell said the model for Lindfield would not be experimental, but would build on "the most successful and appropriate" directions transforming education, "making it better for learners, for teachers, for wellbeing and for results, too".

"All schools are unique, and so we will be assembling aunique Lindfield recipe from many of these tested and effective ingredients," he said. "That recipe will continue to evolve as we see and learn from others' proven ideas around the world."

Professor Heppell said the recipe could include developing the school as a village for all learners of all ages, creating small schools within the school, a focus on studying "by stage not age" and ensuring it was technology rich with a global focus.

"I am bursting with excitment when I think about what we can do with Lindfield," he said.

While an online forum is encouraging educators, students and the community to consider all options, the NSW director of public schools Meredith Ash said the school would focus on the "stage of the student, not their age".

“There will be schools within the school, making them flexible, easy to change and collaborative among themselves."

The first stage of the department's public consultation closes on August 18.