Welcome to
The Hummingbird Learning Lab
Welcome to the Hummingbird Learning Lab, a unique place of learning, launching in September 2025.
We are the world’s first neuroscience-grounded learning environment where young people make original discoveries, become entrepreneurs, and develop a profound understanding of themselves, others, and the real world - an understanding of nature and human nature - all while earning recognised qualifications and having the possibility to study at Master’s-level. Join us in a journey of discovery and creativity to give young people the agency they need to evolve throughout life.
Dave Strudwick
Headteacher and Co-Founder
Watch our Introductory Film
The Hummingbird team has put together a super overview of our why, what and how.
You're warmly invited to watch the film as a starting point to finding out more about The Hummingbird Learning Lab
Our Mission is to empower
young people with agency in their own evolution throughout life
To realise our mission we are guided by a single principle that agency thrives in understanding nature and human nature
We do this by creating a learning lab ecology using and aspiring to the following ideas. We are:
1. Inquiry-focussed and we learn and discover best in the 'real world'.
2. Exercising the C's - being caring, curious, courageous, calm (in uncertainty) and committed.
3. Fostering agency through an alignment of awareness, attitude, actions and accountability.
4. Empowering well-being and learning through Perceptual Neuroscience.
5. Having a go and iterate with a desire for beauty and doing things well.
6. Living with integrity and kindness to have a positive impact on self, others and the world
Our Approach
We foster an integrated learning experience which transcends traditional subject teaching, guiding individuals through inquiry and projects to trust in nature as an educator and develop new ways of being and understanding of the ever-evolving tapestry of life and the universe.
We are connected to Nature and Nature is connected to us. Nature is a complex adaptive system of which we are a part. Systems understanding flows through and out of this.
Learning is empowered by community and real-world authenticity. This means we don't just learn about life, but we learn to live life by being the scientist, artist, entrepreneur and chef ... our approach brings agency and understanding of the world from areas like bank accounts to relationships. How you learn is as important as what you learn.
Our Project and Inquiry Sequence where we explore, plan, do discover and share in a spiral learning process
Our Courses
bringing agency to learning and life
The Hummingbird's accredited, holistic programmes are designed for young people from Year 7 onwards.
Our secondary and sixth form courses enable students to gain Crossfields Institute qualifications which are Ofqual accredited.
Please visit our curriculum page for more information about each of our courses and how you can enrol.
11-14 Programme
Year 7 to Year 9
FROM SEPT 2025
Level 3 Integrative Education Extended Diploma
Sixth Form: Year 12+
FROM SEPT 2026
Level 2 Integrative Education Extended Diploma
Year 10 & Year 11
FROM SEPT 2026
