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9 July 2021
Tips and techniques, Practical examples

P4C across the curriculum

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9 July 2021
Tips and techniques, Practical examples

Take your pupils’ learning and understanding to a deeper level

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), P4C questions, life readiness, impact, pupil talk, whole-class talk, P4C across the curriculum, talk/oracy

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2 July 2021
Resources

Concept Sort – which are the big ideas?

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2 July 2021
Resources

Learning to spot concepts in a stimulus

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), P4C / philosophical concepts, philosophical exercise

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25 June 2021
Tips and techniques

Use Lego to build dialogue

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25 June 2021
Tips and techniques

Supporting pupils to think more collaboratively

Tagged: talk/oracy, dialogue, P4C (Philosophy for Children), talk prompts

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18 June 2021
Tips and techniques

Last three to speak

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18 June 2021
Tips and techniques

A simple way to improve listening and deepen dialogue

Tagged: listening, dialogue, respectful challenge, P4C (Philosophy for Children), talk/oracy, pair talk / talk partners

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11 June 2021
Thoughts, Research, Tips and techniques

Do you repeat pupil responses? Why?

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11 June 2021
Thoughts, Research, Tips and techniques

Teachers’ reasons, and why it might be better not to

Tagged: teacher talk, listening, pupil talk, pupil engagement, teacher voice, audibility, talk/oracy, thinking time

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4 June 2021
P4C/Talk stimulus

When I Coloured in the World – P4C Stimulus

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4 June 2021
P4C/Talk stimulus

What colours will you give to the world?

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), P4C stimuli, P4C questions, P4C / philosophical concepts

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4 June 2021
Professional development

P4C leadership course

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4 June 2021
Professional development

Enabling Philosophy for Children to take root in your school

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children)

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28 May 2021
Thoughts, Tips and techniques

Did you put your hand up at school?

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28 May 2021
Thoughts, Tips and techniques

Pupils tell us why they think their peers don’t raise their hands

Tagged: hands up, pupil voice, pupil engagement, talk audit, less confident talkers / 'quiet children', talk/oracy, speaker chooses, participation systems, volunteers

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21 May 2021
Thoughts, Tips and techniques

Please could you speak a bit louder?

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21 May 2021
Thoughts, Tips and techniques

Creating a classroom culture that shows you value pupil talk

Tagged: pupil voice, pupil talk, pupil engagement, teacher talk, audibility, talk prompts, peer support

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14 May 2021
P4C/Talk stimulus

What's the big idea?

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14 May 2021
P4C/Talk stimulus

A series of excellent P4C stimuli for young children

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), early years / EYFS

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7 May 2021
Recommended reading, Tips and techniques

Selective Mutism

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7 May 2021
Recommended reading, Tips and techniques

Written from the perspective of a child with Selective Mutism, this book is well worth a read

Tagged: less confident talkers / 'quiet children', talk/oracy

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30 April 2021
Tips and techniques

Who can repeat that?

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30 April 2021
Tips and techniques

A game-changing talk move

Tagged: listening, talk/oracy, talk moves, whole-class talk

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23 April 2021
Tips and techniques

Good boy! Fantastic! Amazing! ...bad habit?

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23 April 2021
Tips and techniques

Why positivity alone isn’t enough

Tagged: feedback, teacher talk, talk audit, praise

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23 April 2021
Professional development

Quick P4C survey for SAPERE

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23 April 2021
Professional development

SAPERE would greatly appreciate your responses to this survey

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children)

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16 April 2021
Tips and techniques

Get every child to talk

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16 April 2021
Tips and techniques

Another simple-yet-effective talk game

Tagged: talk/oracy, less confident talkers / 'quiet children', circle time, talking objects, early years / EYFS, oracy activities, talk/oracy games

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9 April 2021
Recommended reading

Beautiful Thinking – EYFS metacognition

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9 April 2021
Recommended reading

A fascinating, accessible book about thinking in the Early Years

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), Thinking Moves A-Z, metacognition, talk/oracy, early years / EYFS

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2 April 2021
Recommended reading

Plato Was Wrong!

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2 April 2021
Recommended reading

A thought-provoking and practical book about doing philosophy with young people

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), critical thinking, reasoning

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26 March 2021
P4C/Talk stimulus

Should I take the stairs? Fun P4C stimulus

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26 March 2021
P4C/Talk stimulus

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

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), P4C / philosophical concepts, talk/oracy

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19 March 2021
Tips and techniques

Simple structures for teaching vocabulary

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19 March 2021
Tips and techniques

Accelerate pupils’ learning of new words

Tagged: vocabulary, reasoning, planning, question stems, dialogue, talk/oracy, would you rather

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5 March 2021
Research, Thoughts

EEF findings on Philosophy for Children

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5 March 2021
Research, Thoughts

Teachers report impact on confidence, respect and reasoning

Tagged: P4C (Philosophy for Children), pupil voice, teacher voice, empathy, life readiness, P4C across the curriculum

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