UK looking at Swedish schools

Just had a very interesting discussion with a senior UK director involved in the education sector and he informed me about the strategy of a significant sized local education authority in England which is planning to build new schools under the BSF programme which cater for the 5-16 year olds rather than building a primary and secondary school separately. Sweden has a 'whole school' approach combining primary and secondary and this is very successful in this country. Much less trauma for the 11 year old facing a separate secondary school as it is in the UK and less learning fall off for the 11 and 12 year olds. We hope to be hosting a group from this LEA to Sweden in 2009 to show them some of the exciting examples of compulsory education.