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What is P4C?

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Check out the new video from SAPERE – a three-minute introduction to Philosophy for Children.

I love what Ethan says about P4C helping children feel good about themselves.

More at www.sapere.org.uk

 
More on P4C
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Hoops of happiness

An activity where participants wonder about the main ingredients for happiness

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Robot pets – P4C stimulus

Explore concepts including love, technology and what makes something real

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What does collaborative thinking look like in P4C?

A detailed description including building, helping, sharing and working together

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The 4Cs of P4C

Explaining caring, collaborative, critical and creative thinking

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Dim the sun? P4C stimulus

A radical proposal for the future

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Learning to ask philosophical questions

How to start a question, and think about whether or not it’s philosophical

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Have your class agreed ground rules for P4C?

How do they want to behave to become great 4C thinkers?

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Speak up in 2024

The power of Philosophy for Children

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Final call for P4C Level 1 training in Manchester

16th and 23rd January 2024

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The Big Dreaming - P4C stimulus?

A beautiful book that could make a lovely stimulus for P4C

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Christmas wonderings from Wonder Ponder

A free, downloadable, shareable booklet

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Sticky note concepts

A tip to ensure you are always ready for P4C sessions

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Puppy yoga – P4C stimulus

A stimulus based on a recent news investigation

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Choral speaking in P4C?

Get everyone listening and engaged with the big ideas and questions

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"Sometimes we agree, sometimes we disagree."

Reminders from six-year-olds about some of the benefits of P4C

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What is P4C?

A new video from SAPERE

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How good is your teacher listening?

Show your pupils that you are trying to understand their thinking

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Inspiring P4C stimulus – resilience

Get your pupils thinking and talking about resilience, barriers, beauty and more

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“We talk about stuff that is important and interesting”

Pupils feel that P4C helps them with everything from relationships to confidence to staying calm

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“She didn’t used to speak!”

The amazing difference P4C made for one pupil

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Using talk prompts to develop creative thinking

How one teacher helped her class go deeper in their P4C enquiry

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Forthcoming CPD for teachers

Development opportunities including the brilliant Pedagogy Programme

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Can you be too generous? Philosophy and Talk stimulus

A fun picture book which can provoke big thinking

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Forthcoming CPD for teachers

Development opportunities including P4C Level 1

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P4C stimulus – hard-hitting photo collages

What will your class make of these contrasting images of children’s lives around the world?

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Vanessa's tips for P4C with 6-7 year olds

Five top P4C tips from an experienced teacher

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Question stems in P4C

Help pupils create their own powerful philosophical questions

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Ban best friends? Talk/Philosophy stimulus

Could preventing some children from having best friends help others?

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Is it okay to throw soup? P4C stimulus

Get your pupils thinking about the rights and wrongs of activism

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Would you clone your pet? P4C stimulus

A stimulus for thinking together about an ethical issue