Topsy Page 25 October 2019 Tips and techniques, Practical examples Concept Towers Topsy Page 25 October 2019 Tips and techniques, Practical examples A way to explore the key concepts in a stimulus and enable children to practice building on others’ ideas.
Topsy Page 18 October 2019 Practical examples SAPERE P4C School Awards Topsy Page 18 October 2019 Practical examples Manchester school receives P4C Silver Award! The SAPERE award scheme can help you ensure P4C is embedded and having impact in your school.
Topsy Page 4 October 2019 Tips and techniques, Practical examples Talking Toys to develop confident, thinking communicators Topsy Page 4 October 2019 Tips and techniques, Practical examples Talking Toys enables children to immediately organise their turn-taking.
Topsy Page 16 August 2019 Tips and techniques, Practical examples Amazing effect of more than one right answer Topsy Page 16 August 2019 Tips and techniques, Practical examples An example of raising engagement in learning using the power of open questions.
Topsy Page 19 July 2019 Practical examples I will... the impact of pupil voice Topsy Page 19 July 2019 Practical examples Examples of what staff decided to do differently, after reading pupil voice about talk in their classrooms.
Topsy Page 12 July 2019 Practical examples Children want to change partners! Topsy Page 12 July 2019 Practical examples More pupil voice about the idea of changing talk partners more often.
Topsy Page 20 June 2019 Tips and techniques, Practical examples Use RAG cups to transform teaching and learning Topsy Page 20 June 2019 Tips and techniques, Practical examples Children continually reflecting on their learning and selecting the right level of challenge.
Topsy Page 2 April 2019 Practical examples All this in seven months! Topsy Page 2 April 2019 Practical examples What a class of Manchester nine year olds decided to talk about in P4C.
Topsy Page 25 March 2019 Practical examples Ofsted comments about P4C Topsy Page 25 March 2019 Practical examples In a recent SAPERE P4C update it was great to hear that P4C is being recognised by Ofsted as helping pupils with life readiness and wellbeing.
Topsy Page 7 March 2019 Tips and techniques, Practical examples P4C Daily Question Topsy Page 7 March 2019 Tips and techniques, Practical examples A great way to start the day in Early Years - developing early language and reasoning as well as engaging families in their child’s learning.
Topsy Page 16 January 2019 Tips and techniques, Practical examples Instant impact of my Talk Prompts Topsy Page 16 January 2019 Tips and techniques, Practical examples Pupils immediately speaking in more powerful, articulate sentences as a result of a really simple technique.
Topsy Page 11 December 2018 Practical examples P4C makes teachers better teachers! Topsy Page 11 December 2018 Practical examples Over the past few months I’ve been asking teachers whether they think P4C has changed them.
Topsy Page 10 April 2018 Practical examples Active learning Topsy Page 10 April 2018 Practical examples Children getting out of their seats to vote for a philosophical question.
Topsy Page 1 March 2018 Practical examples P4C can motivate children to write Topsy Page 1 March 2018 Practical examples I’ve been working with a group of Manchester teachers to discover how to optimise P4C in the teaching and learning of English. It’s been lovely to hear from pupils and teachers about some really positive experiences.
Topsy Page 15 February 2018 Practical examples Does P4C help you? Pupil voice February 2018 Topsy Page 15 February 2018 Practical examples Year 4 and Year 6 children discussing the advantages of doing P4C.
Topsy Page 9 January 2018 Tips and techniques, Practical examples Ideas into your brain... Topsy Page 9 January 2018 Tips and techniques, Practical examples What children think of changing talk partners more often.
Topsy Page 20 September 2017 Tips and techniques, Practical examples Pair talk – your new (old) best friend Topsy Page 20 September 2017 Tips and techniques, Practical examples Pair talk / talk partners is an excellent technique (as long as it’s done properly!)
Topsy Page 13 June 2017 Practical examples What do children think of Hands Up? Topsy Page 13 June 2017 Practical examples Pupil Voice is an important part of my Talk Audits; here are some recent responses when I asked Key Stage 2 children their opinions about Hands Up…
Topsy Page 20 April 2017 Practical examples Year 4 Philosophy question Topsy Page 20 April 2017 Practical examples Questions that children come up with during P4C sessions are always fascinating!
Topsy Page 30 March 2017 Practical examples Talk for learning Topsy Page 30 March 2017 Practical examples After a term of working with me on Productive Talk, I asked teachers what the impact has been on their classes.
