Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.

The idea that subjects should abandon their ‘silos' and work together is bandied about currently a great deal - ‘subjects' and ‘silos' alliterate after all and so, of course, does the word ‘slogan'. What might real interdisciplinary work mean? It is likely to mean hard thinking rather than soft solutions, to involve upskilling rather than watering down and, of course, and like most things that add value, to involve time and resource. In this article Iain Annat and Katherine Bone give us an indication of what real interdisciplinary work can look like and suggest that it can enhance both the rigour and the meaning of what we do.