National Association for Primary Education

Mark Taylor

The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. On this podcast we discuss the work and lectures of Christian Schiller, interview education specialist and explain how NAPE is working for you. Our aim is to achieve a higher priority for the education of children from birth to 13. High quality learning in the early years of life is vitally important to the creation of an educated society. Young children are not simply preparing for the future, they are living a never to be repeated time of life and the best way to learn is to live. read less
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VALUES-BASED EDUCATION - THE BEATING HEART OF PRIMARY EDUCATION - NAPE 084
09-03-2023
VALUES-BASED EDUCATION - THE BEATING HEART OF PRIMARY EDUCATION - NAPE 084
CHRISTIAN SCHILLER LECTURE PRESENTED BY DR. NEIL HAWKESThis presentation will aim to inspire listeners to understand why Values-based Education (VbE) is now being considered as the foundation of school culture worldwide. He will explain the key elements of the VbE model and why practitioners love it so much. He will draw on good practice from Primary Schools that find it to be the 'beating heart of their education'. Neil will describe the impact that VbE is having on developing what he describes as ethical leadership and why this concept should be central in the Primary School curriculum. Dr. Neil Hawkes is well known as an educator, motivational speaker, broadcaster, writer and social commentator. He first gained international recognition when he was a Headteacher in Oxfordshire, where he worked with a school community to devise and implement a pedagogical system that would give children a transformational ethical vocabulary, based on values such as respect, tolerance, humility and justice. Pupils were empowered to be self-leaders, with an active moral compass that affected behaviour, their thinking and the quality of their school work. Values-based Education (VbE) is now recognised internationally as a key dimension in school improvement and enhancing the nature of pupil experience and many schools have now gained accreditation for the quality of their values-based education, including Bannockburn Primary School where the Schiller lecture is being hosted.Get notified about the Christian Schiller Lecture here https://www.youtube.com/live/aFGja5aYNfM?feature=shareNAPE YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/@nationalassociationforprim834/Primary Education Summithttps://nape.org.uk/summit
360 Skills For Life with Rob Hattersley - NAPE 081
18-05-2022
360 Skills For Life with Rob Hattersley - NAPE 081
Prepared for life, not just exams360 are a dynamic social enterprise developing essential skills for life in young people through an interactive learning approach we call discuss, decide and do. 360 Skills For Life provide scenario-based educational experiences that equip learners with the skills, knowledge and confidence to live active, fulfilling and safer lives in stronger and more sustainable communities.Experience Skill City, their unique VR environment, bringing to life real world safeguarding dilemmas in realistic but safe scenarios.Their valuesWe listen in order to continually learn and improveWe connect and collaborate because partnerships achieve more for lessWe put the learner and their needs firstWe empower and challenge rather than instructWe engage and involve learners in our developmentWe adapt and are flexible when encountering new situations and knowledgeWe include all learners regardless of age, disability, gender, relationship or parental status, race, belief, sex or sexual orientationWe seek the best in everyone to realise individual and collective potentialTheir approachHolistic, cross-curricular education that delivers transferable skills for 21st century lifeImmersive, practical and interactive learning in which users discuss, make decisions and then do, rather than simply learning factsAwareness of surroundings to make good risk assessments, confidently make better decisions and deal with individual and collective challengesBlended learning where online, in-school and outdoor strands are closely integratedProvision of a realistic dilemma-based virtual Skill City as the core resourcePartnership with other organisations to maximise impact and valueFull details available at www.360skillsforlife.org
Nature Premium campaign with Dr Sara Collins - NAPE 080
04-05-2022
Nature Premium campaign with Dr Sara Collins - NAPE 080
The Nature Premium campaign is being led by the Forest School Association (FSA). With around 2000 practicing members the Forest School Association is the professional body and UK wide voice for Forest School, promoting and supporting best practice, cohesion and ‘quality Forest School for all.  Guidance is being provided by a campaign steering group comprising representatives of key organisations within the outdoors learning industry and conservation sector (campaign partners). In addition, the campaign will seek support from allies across multiple sectors. The private sector will be particularly important in terms of sponsoring the campaign and achieving our goal. The campaign has been developed and managed on an entirely voluntary basis with the FSA underwriting the costs and FSA directors contributing a huge amount of their time. We recognise that the campaign is more likely to be successful if it has additional voluntary and financial resources. The campaign is deliberately independent and simply seeks to increase children’s engagement with nature and realise the huge number of associated benefits. Supporters within the outdoors learning industry will, on their own terms, lay-out and make their ‘offer’ for how the nature premium could be used to support school communities, young people, and families. Each will use their own networks to support the campaign.Dr Sara Collins is a biologist who completed her doctorate at Imperial College, London while working with the Forestry Commission. Post research she worked for a Palo Alto biotech company focusing on European sales, expanding into Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus. At the same time, she completed her MBA. She took a career break when her son was born and worked as a Visiting Teaching Fellow at Bath University where she wrote and taught a course on developing entrepreneurial skills in biotechnology. Sara qualified as a Forest School practitioner because it took her back to nature and fitted in with her son’s academic year. She is deputy-chair of a national charity and FRSA. Sara has worked in urban, multi-ethnic primary schools in Portsmouth for over ten years and developed the volunteer led Nature Premium campaign during Lockdown I. She continues to combine campaigning with her self-employed work in local schools.saracollins@naturepremium.orgwww.naturepremium.org/Click to watch NAPE's Christian Schiller Lecture presented by Nancy Stewart 'Cherishing the growth of young children: what early years education can be' 2 online events for the summer term Mental Health/Wellbeing - How to support pupils with transition to secondary school with Sam Moinet from Student Breakthrough (May 16th)Ocean Plastic & Climate Change - Join Ellie Jackson author of the Wild Tribe Heroes book series as we invite pupils to write a story based on this topic in a writing festival (June 13th) For full details and booking forms please visit nape.org.uk/online-events
Nancy Stewart presents our Christian Schiller Lecture 2022 - NAPE 079
23-02-2022
Nancy Stewart presents our Christian Schiller Lecture 2022 - NAPE 079
The National Association for Primary Education are delighted to announce that Nancy Stewart will present our Christian Schiller Lecture 2022.'Cherishing the growth of young children: what early years education can be'.Nancy Stewart is a consultant and writer with wide experience across early years sectors in schools, nurseries, local authority advisory service, and National Strategies where she was Senior Early Years Adviser with a central role in Every Child a Talker. Nancy provided expert advice to the 2012 review of the Early Years Foundation Stage, drawing on her interest in communication and language for thinking, as well as children’s development as self-regulating learners. Nancy co-authored Development Matters 2012, and wrote How children learn – The characteristics of effective early learning. She led development of Birth to Five Matters (2021) as Project Lead for the Early Years Coalition, and is a Vice President of Early Education.Nancy has earned the reputation as one of the most insightful speakers in the UK, specialising in the field of early years. This event will be of great interest to teachers, tutors, students, parents.The lecture is free and will be held on Monday 14th March 2022 at 4.45pm.It is being hosted by Windmill Primary School in Oxford and will be live streamed via zoom.To book please visit:https://nape.org.uk/schiller-online-booking orhttps://nape.org.uk/schiller-in-person-booking
SEN CPD with Dr Anne Margaret Smith - NAPE 074
17-11-2021
SEN CPD with Dr Anne Margaret Smith - NAPE 074
National Association for Primary Education presents:Special Educational Needs CPDMonday 6th December 2021 4:30 PM - 5:30 PMThis online zoom event will cover 3 areas of Special Educational Needs to help you support your pupils:- English as an Additional Language (EAL)- How to identify children who may also have dyslexia or another SPLD- Common speech, language and communication needsCo-occurring challengesDo you ever worry that a child in your class is not making the progress you were expecting? There may be many reasons for this – and some will overlap. In this interactive session, we will look at some of the causes of underachievement, and try to find some solutions that could benefit the whole class.We will start by looking at how all teachers can effectively support those learners who are using English as an Additional Language (EAL), and then move on to what we should be alert to in order to identify any children who also may have dyslexia or another SPLD. Finally, we will look at some common speech, language and communication needs, and how they could be met in the classroom.Please feel free to bring your questions and share your experiences, so that, as a group, we can empower each other to support our learners. HostMark Taylor (Vice Chair NAPE) - Mark has been a professional percussionist for 25 years and performed with some of the major orchestras and arts organisations in the UK. Mark combines his performing career with teaching drums/percussion in schools and providing whole class rhythm workshops.Mark is the creator and host of the Education on Fire podcast. He interviews educators from around the world so that he can enable his listeners to support children to live, learn and grow to their full potential. He has recorded over 300 episodes which have been downloaded in over 135 countries.PresenterDr. Anne Margaret Smith started her career as a teacher of English as a foreign / additional language around 30 years ago. Alongside her language teaching, she also works as a dyslexia assessor and specialist tutor, and has designed an assessment tool to allow us to identify SpLDs in multilingual people. She founded ELT well in 2005, to combine these two fields of education, and offers professional development and resources to language teachers in all contexts. She is currently also training to be a Speech and Language Therapist.If you can not join us live a replay will be available.Event Fee£12.50 per person FREE to NAPE members (use promotional code at checkout)To book please visit https://nape.org.uk/sen
International Montessori Institute Scholarships - NAPE 068
03-06-2021
International Montessori Institute Scholarships - NAPE 068
Leonor Stjepic, is an award-winning social enterprise entrepreneur, whose career has spanned both the private and NGO sectors. She is Chief Executive of the Montessori Group as well as Chair of the Board of Directors of Montessori Centre International.James Archer is the Centre Director of the International Montessori Institute. Prior to this he was the Course Director of the BA Primary Education Accelerated (2 Year) degree. He has worked on and written various validations of innovative programmes in the Carnegie School of Education.The International Montessori Institute, a centre within the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University (LBU), has launched a scholarship programme to support the next generation of Montessori educators. The Institute was established in August 2020 and will provide the UK’s first dedicated undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Montessori education.Funded by the Montessori Group, the first scholarships of £2,000 each will be awarded to 25 students who are studying on the BA (Hons) Primary Education Accelerated Degree (Montessori) in the 2021/22 academic year. The relationship between the Carnegie School of Education and the Montessori Group means that further scholarships will be awarded in the future years of the partnership.This scholarship will be first awarded in the next academic year, with applicants to LBU able to apply for the scholarship as part of their application to the university.Websitehttps://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/research/the-international-montessori-institute/Social Media InformationLeonor StjepicTwitter: @LeonorStjepicLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonorstjepic/James ArcherTwitter: @mrjamesarcherInternational Montessori InstituteTwitter: @Montessori_LBUThe Montessori GroupTwitter: @MontessoriUkLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/montessori-uk/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/montessoriUKInstagram: @MontessoriUkTo get your FREE e-copy of the professional journal Primary First please visit https://nape.org.uk/journal
Independent Thinking with Ian Gilbert – NAPE 067
12-05-2021
Independent Thinking with Ian Gilbert – NAPE 067
Mark Taylor chats to NAPE patron Ian Gilbert.Since founding Independent Thinking in 1994, Ian has built a global reputation as an educational thinker, innovator, entrepreneur, speaker and award-winning editor and writer. He was listed by the IB magazine as one of their top 15 ‘educational visionaries’. Never happier than when he is making children’s brains hurt, he has a unique first-hand perspective on the world of education having lived and worked in schools and universities in the UK, the Middle East, South America and Asia.He is now sharing his time between Rotterdam, where his wife is an international school principal, and their home in the middle of nowhere deep in West Wales.He wasn’t always interested in exotic foreign travel and meeting interesting people from different countries, as he started off his educational career teaching French in Northampton. He didn't really want to be a French teacher and, while you would think not wanting to teach French to people who didn't want to learn it might be a match made in heaven, it was only ever really a stepping stone. His main ambition was to work with young people in the areas that most fascinated him then and in which he has become such an important figure today – thinking, learning, motivation, creativity and helping all members of the school community be the best they can be.Through his many books including the ever-popular Thunks collection, his ongoing classroom work with children and young people, his keynotes and workshops at conferences around the world and his continuous work with teachers and leaders in schools, Ian has shown a whole generation of educators that there is always another way. Following a chance meeting in the staff room, Ian was encouraged to set up Independent Thinking in 1994 and, since then, has built up a unique educational organisation that acts as a platform for some of the UK’s leading innovative educators and school leaders as well as serving as a ‘lighthouse’ for so many practitioners who might otherwise fall prey to the idea that silence is respect, obedience is behaviour, grades measure education and teaching and learning are the same thing.Websitewww.independentthinking.co.ukSocial Media Information@ITLWorldwide on Twitterindependentthinkingworldwide on InstagramThe National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. Get a FREE e-copy of their professional journal at nape.org.uk/journal