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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.

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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.

    More Than A Score - NAPE 086

    More Than A Score - NAPE 086

    More Than A Score:
    It’s time to fundamentally change the high-stakes, high-pressure assessment system in primary schools and make good mental health the basis for good learning.
    Primary pupils in England now face SATs and other government tests in five out of seven school years – that’s more formal assessments than in almost any other country.
    But the evidence against the current system is growing. Parents, teachers and heads are united in calling for change.
    In 2022, only 3% of heads wanted SATs to go ahead. 89% of parents say they would support an alternative. And 1 in 10 year 6 pupils didn’t sleep well in the run-up to the tests.
    SATs and other government tests don’t help learning and cause unnecessary stress and pressure.
    Let’s speak out for children.
    Alison Ali Director/Owner Can Can Campaigns
    Alison began her career in journalism, moving into international consumer publishing. Her experience runs from human rights and global finance reporting, to launching premium multi-language magazines and digital platforms for household brand names. She has run her own successful creative agency Can Can Creative since 2006 and, in 2019, launched sister agency Can Can Campaigns to harness the collective’s exceptional skills for greater good.
    www.morethanascore.org.uk/
    FB @morethanascore
    T @MoreThanScore
    Insta @morethanascore
    TikTok @morethanascore_

    • 32 min
    A Curious Curriculum by Mick Waters and Claire Banks - NAPE 085

    A Curious Curriculum by Mick Waters and Claire Banks - NAPE 085

    Written by Claire Banks and Mick Waters, A Curious Curriculum: Teaching foundation subjects well details the insightful and transformational steps that a school can take towards designing and delivering a rich, rigorous and wide-ranging curriculum. 
    Before becoming Director of Education for The Olympus Academy Trust, a cross-phase multi-academy trust in north Bristol, Claire Banks was a head teacher for nine years in an inner-city primary school. Throughout her career she has been interested in social and emotional learning and school climate, which has led to her work on leadership culture. Claire now works on curriculum design and school improvement in a system leadership capacity, offering school-to-school support to school trusts. Her passion for succession planning for the profession has led to her coaching and mentoring on aspiring heads and women in leadership programmes.
    Website
    www.crownhouse.co.uk
    www.crownhouse.co.uk/a-curious-curriculum
    Social Media Information
    Twitter and Instagram: @CrownHousePub
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrownHousePub
    Details of the Primary Education Summit can be found at www.nape.org.uk/summit

    • 31 min
    VALUES-BASED EDUCATION - THE BEATING HEART OF PRIMARY EDUCATION - NAPE 084

    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=share
    NAPE YouTube Channel
    www.youtube.com/@nationalassociationforprim834/
    Primary Education Summit
    https://nape.org.uk/summit

    • 3 min
    Primary Education Summit 2023 - NAPE 083

    Primary Education Summit 2023 - NAPE 083

    National Association for Primary Education is proud to present a Primary Education Summit 'Visions for the Future' over two weeks starting on 15th March 2023. This is intended to promote discussion about the type of rich and engaging primary education which will enable all our children to meet the challenges they face now and in the future. This will include the annual Christian Schiller Lecture 'Values-based Education - the beating heart of Primary Education' presented by Dr. Neil Hawkes, eleven pre-recorded guest presentations and four live panel discussions led by prominent figures in primary education. Full details of these are given below. We very much hope that you will wish to join us for some or all of these sessions - and let other people in your school or organization know.
    nape.org.uk/summit
    www.youtube.com/@nationalassociationforprim834/

    • 4 min
    Taking Tes digital with editor Jon Severs - NAPE 082

    Taking Tes digital with editor Jon Severs - NAPE 082

    Jon Severs is editor of Tes. He was previously commissioning editor at Tes, responsible for the teaching and learning content, as well as policy, leadership and pastoral articles. Before that, he wrote and edited for both trade and consumer titles. 
    Jon explains the journey of taking the traditional Tes magazine, which was established in 1910, to their new online delivery which can be more reactive in our modern age.
    If you want to contribute to Tes in the way mentioned in the show here are the 2 contacts.
    dan.worth@tes.com
    helen.amass@tes.com

    • 40 min
    360 Skills For Life with Rob Hattersley - NAPE 081

    360 Skills For Life with Rob Hattersley - NAPE 081

    Prepared for life, not just exams
    360 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 values
    We 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 potential
    Their approach
    Holistic, 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 value
    Full details available at www.360skillsforlife.org

    • 27 min

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