#GreatCompassion Talking to lots of teachers over the past few weeks, it's clear many schools are working to create some lasting collections and installations of art, stories, poems to show students have been 'apart but still together' during the Pandemic.  I've added an extra section on my website to showcase some of these as suggestions for others.   

Hometalk We were lucky to recieve a visit from Nick Chandley from Dialogue Works to a P4C North Cumbria Zoom group this week to talk about Home Talk and Thinking Moves.  Hometalk is a weekly set of P4C resources for home you can sign up to for free from the website.  Nick will be 'returning' to Cumbria on 2nd June to run a free 1.5 hour session on Thinking Moves for a group of Cumbrian teachers willing to try out Thinking Moves in their classrooms. This is for teachers who are P4C trained or new to P4C.  Details to follow shortly via CDEC

Cumbria Development Education Centre (CDEC) has a focus this week on FAMILY to tie in with International Day of the family on 15th May. Some lovely activities to explore your own family and families around the world.  Sign up for the CDEC weekly newsletter

Which blob best describes your family during lockdown?
Is there a family you would like to be more like?

Philosophy for Children is a well proven approach to learning that encourages children to develop a love of wisdom - through thinking for themselves with others.  

My FACEBOOK page - often I see a really engaging news article and write this up as a stimlus with suggested activities for home or school

Sankofa Storytelling in times of Covid-19 films with P4C discussion starters for home and school.  New stories uploaded every week.  

Cumbria Development Education Centre   SANKOFA digital storytelling project activity ideas.A collaboration between Cumbria DEC and HEC and partners in Czech Republic and Slovakia

SAPERE #PhilosophyFriday Sign up for an email alert for new weekly resources for home and school  Also, searchable resources.  

Children's Big Questions during the Covid-19 crisis: Resources for parents by Jana Mohr Lone from University of Washington

Dialogue Works are producing a weekly resources called Hometalk for parents/children incorparating Thinking Move

Challenging Learning at Home. Activities designed to stimulate thoughtful conversations and problem-solving approaches to learning from the Challenging Learning Team.  

Wonder Ponder  Visual philosophy from Madrid and I Wonder, self interviews under lockdown

1000s of free thought-provoking images on the Blob Tree Facebook page for Covid-19 or check out their website Blob Tree

The Economist Education Foundation sign up for newsletter and some good resources for talking about Covid-19 for families

What makes me, me? and other interesting ideas on fairness, ownership and good  BBC site

What's the Big Idea? CBBC programme on different concepts 

www.blobtree.com

My FACEBOOK page - often I see a really engaging news article and write this up as a stimlus with suggested activities  

Sankofa Storytelling in times of Covid-19 films with P4C discussion starters for home and school.  New stories uploaded each week

Cumbria Development Education Centre   You can download a free copy of their wonderful new resource Philosophy for Global Learning (in the download section) and other resources  Sign up for weekly resource newsletter during Covid-19

SAPERE #PhilosophyFriday Sign up for an email alert for new weekly resources for home and school  Also, searchable resources.

StayINspiredWL  Schools in West Lothian have developed the most amazing local authority approach to home school learning.  Lucky to have one of their teachers join my Level 2A P4C North Cumbria Zoom group during lockdown to talk about this amazing project developing independent learners and learner agency through weekly open-ended challenges.

Global Education Derby With many young people using social media and digital technology more through being at home during Covid-19, GED offers an fantastic range of resources for thinking critically and creatively about social media.  Special mention to the Thinking Again, Thinking Critically Toolkit for KS3

Dialogue Works online and premium resources for teachers and parents, including Thinking Moves. Sign up for weekly Hometalk during Covid-19.

Wonder Ponder  Visual philosophy from Madrid!  I am their UK distributor of sorts and sell their philosophy boxes on my courses in the UK - please ask me!  Sign up for I Wonder, Self Interviews under Lockdown

P4C.com   Online resources for P4C   New free resources for Covid-19

Philosophy Man Subscribe to a free monthy bulletin for resources  New resources for Covid-19

See Blob Tree Facebook page for discussion suggestions

Visual images can be an effective and accessible way to prompt dialogue and enquiry for all learners.  During the Covid-19 crisis, I have been increasingly drawn to visual stimulus for exploring big and complex ideas.

Blob Tree  effective communication tools for review and 1000s of free images on Facebook page for stimulus 

Wonder Ponder  Visual philosophy from Madrid!  I am their UK distributor of sorts and sell their philosophy boxes on my courses in the UK - please ask me!  Sign up for I Wonder, Self Interviews under Lockdown

Daily Art and P4C activities on Instagram from Jake Garfield of Line of Thought Where art meets big ideas.... (Jake is Royal Drawing School and Royal College of Art trained)

Literacy Shed  collection of films for excellent p4c stimulus  (also see Images Shed)

Picture News weekly poster related to the news with a thought-provoking question. Free for 4 weeks during Covid-19

Pobble 365  image One picture. One teaching resource. Every day.

Once upon a picture  Images to inspire

Instagram account of photo collage artist Uğur Gallen from Turkey who contrasts photos to show injustices in the world.

Studio Carreras is a design studio in Girona which produces big ideas as simple shapes. I use these as part of my advanced training as a P4C review tool, and as part of aesthetic enquiry.

Watch this space for an upcoming article on using photos and design in P4C.

Ugur Gallen

*** My own articles and papers are available in the What is P4C? section 

Society for Advancing Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education  online search for resources

Philosofun activities that are engaging, active, non-competitive and above all fun!

Open Scotland - P4C network in Scotland with resources section

Beyond the Secret Garden Regular series of articles examining BAME representations in children’s literature by Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O'Connor in Books for Keeps online magazine for children's books. Suggestions for books and excellent background reading. 

SAPERE Gold School North Lakes School resources

Wonder Ponder  Visual philosophy from Madrid!  I sell their philosophy boxes on my courses in the UK - please ask me!

Little Chatters Outdoor P4C

International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children connect with P4C around the world

P4C.com   Online resources for P4C   (subscription with some free resources)

Sara Stanley  P4C trainer and Early Years P4C guru

Sara Stanley  Three excellent articles on EYFS in Teach Early Years magazine by Sara

Philosophy Man Subscribe to a free monthy bulletin for resources 

Thinking Space free lesson plans by Grace Lockrobin