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Sticky note concepts

A tip to ensure you are always ready for P4C sessions

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Choral speaking in P4C?

Get everyone listening and engaged with the big ideas and questions

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Philosophy for Young Children – A Practical Guide

Packed with example discussion scenarios, this book will help you raise your facilitation game

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P4C Stimulus – Bravery or Stupidity?

Was filming this a good idea?

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Philosophical Play from Sara Stanley

Full of practical ideas and lovely examples of children’s words; I recommend this book

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P4C stimulus about Difference

A poignant story about difference and friendship

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Vocabulary, Vocabulary, Vocabulary

Get students to think and talk about new words in the context of what they are learning

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Kindness – concept activity

What does kindness actually mean?

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Anti-Bullying Week – P4C questions and stimuli

Help your pupils explore the 2021 theme, One Kind Word

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Concept Sort – which are the big ideas?

Learning to spot concepts in a stimulus

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When I Coloured in the World – P4C Stimulus

What colours will you give to the world?

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Should I take the stairs? Fun P4C stimulus

If we made exercise more fun, would people be healthier?

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The Three Robbers – P4C stimulus

An entertaining short video which will stimulate lots of dialogue

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Uplifting concepts

A list of positive ideas including compassion, hope, and celebration - for use in P4C or circle time

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Traditional tales can get children thinking and talking

Try using a well-known story such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears as a stimulus for classroom talk or P4C

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Forthcoming online P4C network meeting

A professional development opportunity for P4C leads and teachers on Thursday 24th September

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P4C planning tip – Big ideas

An enjoyable P4C prep task for the Summer break

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A double bubble for every subject

A simple way to help learners structure their talk, thinking and note-taking.

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Concept Towers

A way to explore the key concepts in a stimulus and enable children to practice building on others’ ideas.

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Concept activity - Emotion
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Big Ideas

Ways to get children to generate philosophical questions from a stimulus.

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Can compassion be taught?

One aspect of P4C which often gets missed is to identify the key concept in a question and then stretch it or explore it more to deepen understanding.