Testimonials

This is what people are saying about The Philosophy Man:

Many questions have an amazing amount of depth and cannot be answered.

It was a great experience. I found that I could make my point fully and have it challenged, questioned and defended.

Excellent, a lot of fun and very interactive.

Interesting, enlightening and a taste of what taking philosophy as an option might be like.

How to open my mind and really think about what is being said, going into detail.

I have also learnt how to work effectively in a group.

I have learnt how to think to the fullest extent of my brain.

Great! Loved every moment.

… there is an argument to almost anything.

Ive learnt to take a more in depth look at things.

Excellent! Really got us thinking.

— Pupils at Sweyne Park, Greensward and Castle View Schools in Essex

Like an episode of Argumental!

It was great to be able to argue about things without getting told off!

— Pupils at Hugh Christie Technology College

Activities engaging and good variety and balance

I feel enthused

Devising own enquiries Fab 2 days and feel have learnt something to improve childrens learning

Stimulating

Jason’s enthusiasm

Working in smaller groups = more confident

Great development for me personally

Cant wait to get started – I went home buzzing after first day

I have learnt to think more in depth

Just a quick email to say that I did my first Philosophy session today with my class. They really enjoyed it and we could have run on way over the hour session that was allocated.

The resources are great the course has really inspired me. Looking forward to receiving more

I have completed 3 enquiries now, across 3 classes of year 6 pupils. We are really enjoying these times together.

I had my philosophy club after school today – 10 children. We played the I would rather be ….. game and it was so good. The questions and debate that ensued was so uplifting and they enjoyed it too.

— Level 1 Training for Norfolk G&T Lead Teachers

We have been keen to establish P4C for some time in our school, believing it to be a natural part of our three-layered G&T programme.

It was great to work with Jason who consolidated and extended our prior knowledge and really made us believe that not to implement P4C would be a grave mistake on our part. The children loved it and talked about it a lot the following day, asking when we were next going to do philosophy.

It is a testament to Jason’s energy and commitment that he managed to enthuse the staff during a twilight session in darkest January and several expressed regret that we hadn’t put aside a whole day.

I am keen to get Jason back into school to work with our younger pupils now – he has a natural affinity with the children but still managed to make the adults laugh and wish to get involved.

— Ann Geeves, Year 5 teacher
Challenge Programme Co-ordinator
R A Butler School

Level 1 Certificate Course for
Havering Advisory Service

Helpful. Focused. Encouraging and motivating.

Very good, extremely knowledgeable.

Very relaxed atmosphere and informal.

There was an abundance of useful ideas and resources that could be used in the classroom.

Excellent course, very efficient and organised.

Lots of ideas. Practical sessions so you could appreciate how it would work out in class. Relaxed, unthreatening, knowledgeable and clearly had experience (recent) in schools.

Thorough. Entertaining. Great pace.

Excellent course, informative and professional.

Providing a framework to help guide what Im doing; sharing of resources; stimulating thinking and development of practice. To improve not much! Maybe just move people around more so talking to more people. Great course – one of the best Ive been on.

Pocket P4C

Pocket P4C has proved extremely popular with primary and secondary teachers who have either done a Level 1 or want to find out about P4C.  It provides a very useful summary which is pocket sized so that teachers can literally keep it in their pockets as a reminder of different approaches to every stage in an enquiry.

— Helen Griffin, Development Education Centre, South Yorkshire

Many thanks for the inspiring course this weekend

Thank you so much for the course this week at Mangreen Hall – rarely have I felt so inspired. It was brilliant.

Thanks again

Val

Thanks so much for going out of your way to ensure I am able to receive your bulletins. I must remark, how impressed I am with your whole model to broadening access to P4C – and the resources you make a really very well put together – easy to digest. Certainly, your workshop was also well received by our attendees at this year’s Philosophy 4 Camden conference.

I really do appreciate the slides you’ve sent through and the link  to your YouTube planning tutorial and yes, I’ll look forward to working with you again also, soon I hope.

Kind regards Mark

I very much enjoyed and was enthused by your presentation yesterday.

Glen Norris

Jason   a rather belated thanks for the part you played in the excellent conference last Saturday and also your splendid workshop.

I’ve just started to use your ‘Philosophy Bingo’ at last with some very good results – many thanks.

Stuart

Hope you are well. I just wanted to say thank you for the training you did in Lydney last week. It was a fab day and as a result… We are now going to roll out p4c across the school from September! The head has given me responsibility for thinking skills and we are going for the thinking school’s accreditation. All very exciting!

Rachael

I recently attended your course at mangreen hall and everything I’ve done back at school since has gone swimmingly.

Felicity Hope

I really enjoyed your course and have done a few lessons with my class.

Claire

I REALLY enjoyed the mini-inset that Jason did at Derby High on Monday 30th Jan!  Thank you

Lucy Baker

Thanks a million Jason. Look forward to having a read.

Have a good half term,

Siobhain, The Hope Centre, London

Thank you – great resources.

Carol Longstaff

Thankyou so much for these resources. I have just started P4C and have found them very useful.

Claire Moseley

Thankyou. The games look good. Looking forward to using them.

I.Roche

Thank you so much for material sent so far – it has been invaluable!!

Regards Catriona Buxton

Thank you so much for all these wonderful resources! You’re doing a great thing!

Katrina

January 2012

Very interesting indeed, thanks for sharing!

Ms Clark

I just want to thank you for all the P4C resources that you have been emailing me.  Our school uses them regularly as we conduct P4C throughout our primary school from foundation to year 6 once a fortnight. Most of our staff are quite new to P4C so your resources  have been greatly appreciated.

Tracy, Athersley South Primary School

That’s a different one!

Liz

I think your web site is brilliant. I’m doing the Course through my school at the moment, we have seen some amazing changes in some children that usually don’t engage in activities.

Kind regards

Tara Ford

A note to thank you for the resources you send weekly. A few years ago I did the SAPRE level 1 P4C course and practiced it for a short while. However my interest has been revamped since recieving your weekly resources and I have now begun to practice it again with the year 6 class that I teach once a week. I am now in senior management and am encouraging others to take this up by observing my sessions and passing on your resources to teachers of older pupils in the school.  Your hard work is much appreciated. Many thanks.

Mary

These resources are absolutely superb. I’ve been trying/failing to use my imagination to get our girls more interested in this kind of thing. After using various books, an outside speaker and my own imagination I’ve made a tiny bit of progress, but your exercises captured the girls’ imagination much more quickly. Great stuff.

Thanks for two excellent and thought provoking stories.

Geri

Please do keep sending us your wonderful emails.  They have proven invaluable

Claire

This is fantastic!

Thank you so much! After noticing the positive effects on P4C last year in my class of Year 4/5′s my Headteacher has asked me to do some research to present to the other teachers in our school on how important philosophy is to the whole curriculum. So I will definately be using this!

Thanks again

Using one of your resources for my enquiry tomorrow!

Great Resources – food for thought!

Paul

Thanks for all these resources they are really helpful

Helen

Fab-thanks Jason!

Sally

Came across your website whilst searching for some questions on morals and the price of fame/fortune for my topic at school and can’t believe I hadn’t considered running P4C sessions!!

So glad my enthusiasm is refreshed again!

December 2011

Thankyou Jason for all these fabulous resources, as a Headteacher of a small primary you have given me so much to work with.

Kind regards  Christine Kirton

Thank you for sending these emails – I have used some of your material (but most importantly the concepts and questions to initiate discussion).

They also made my philosophy for children lessons easier to plan and assured me I was on the right track! – especially when I was on teaching placement last term.

Soniya

Thank you for the email and the brilliant resources. I am a big fan of P4C so would really appreciate being part of any subscription that includes ideas and resources.

Anna Jones, Wyedean School and Sixth Form Centre

Many thanks for all the excellent material you send through to us.

Penny Smith

Jason – I have enjoyed your contributions very much and wish to continue to receive your thought provoking ‘offerings’ when I leave the school at the end of the term. I do not like to use the word ‘retiring’ -  more a case of having a break and attempt to rise above the parapet.

Thank you for the messages. I really look forward to them, they make me think !

Maurax

This looks really interesting and I will certainly dip into it.

K Reeder

Thanks for all the resources. They`re great. I will be using them as part of the PDC provision in my school. It promises to be great fun! Thank you.

Alex

I’ve read through the material and find it all accessible and particularly interesting. I’ll be trialling some of the activities very soon.

Ingrid

That is really helpful, thank you very much!

Julieta

That’s great, thank you.

Philippa

Thanks

I’ll use the Water Catcher with a group of G&T students who will be doing an environmental project.

David

NOVEMBER 2011

I can’t tell you how much I look forward to your emails.

Many thanks for all your ideas – I’m having a great time with my Year 5 class, who love P4C sessions – I think they feel quite grown up being in charge of a session & I only have to step in occasionally. They manage the discussion section well & are almost over apologetic when they cut in on each other. They particularly liked the picture of the sumo wrestler & the fable about the bat. Keep the ideas coming please. P4C has definitely added another dimension to my teaching.

Erica

Your emails have been invaluable.  I have just completed my first `philosophy`activity with a group of grade 6 students and they loved it.  Thank you for all the super ideas.

Jocelyn Drummond

Thank you for this and also all the other superb information

Nicki

Many thanks,

Philosophy is now on the weekly timetable and the children are really enjoying it.

We will be sending out your philosophy questions for the children to try out with thier parents.

Thanks for all your support.

Janet Matthews

I keep meaning to say thank you for all the excellent material you send so regularly – thanks!

Chloe

What a life-line you are to the sanity of education.

Simon

Jason thank you for latest philosophy ideas, I spent about an hour downloading and printing out previous emailed ideas ready to distribute to staff in my attempt to encourage colleagues to use more P4C in their classes, some great ideas

thank you!!

OCTOBER 2011

What a great site. Thank you.

I just want to say thank you for all the stimuli and ideas you have been sending me. I have used a few and bought some of the books you recommended. I have only been teaching philosophy since the summer term and I absolutely love it!! The children I teach love it- I guess my enthusiasm rubs off. I teach Year 2 and am amazed at some of their responses, ideas and honesty.

Please keep sending on super ideas- they are very much appreciated.

Yvette

Just a quick hello and thanks for all the great stuff you are able to give to me.

My Year 6s love their weekly P4C, especially because they don’t have to write anything!

They don’t realise that they are really working their brains!

Thank you very much for all your resources. I found your topic video particularly useful and interesting.

Julia

Thank you for your time and energy – the resources look very useful and thought-provoking.

What a great website Jason and a wonderful range of resources.

Julie

Thank you so much for your fabulous resources and ideas for stimuli. I love opening my emails and will be showing the McGurk effect to my Y3/4s this afternoon. I now dedicate 30 minutes per week on P4C based on the resources you provide and would like to believe that I am ‘thinking’ enough to run the philosophy thread through all I teach.

Now I’m teaching Mandarin Chinese at the British International School in Hong Kong. Your philosophy for children material is great. I’ll try to adapt some of it for Chinese lessons. Bob

Just want to thank you for all the help and support you are providing

Thankyou for these stories will use them with various year groups.

Thanks Catherine

SEPTEMBER 2011

thanks Jason for all your ideas. I am starting teaching philosophy soon with year 1. I’ve stored all your e mails and will use them this year.thanks Pat

Your ideas are fab keep them coming.

I felt it necessary to thank you for the attachments and that they will be shared on our academic computer drive for others to use.  We are always striving to enlighten our pupils and to empower them with the ability to think and speak freely within our organisation and the community.  I feel that with your P4C work and further support we will continue to develop that ethos within our school.

I thank you for your ideas – I have already been inspired!

I just wanted to let you know that I very much appreciate the materials you send out. To my mind this kind of activity really is at the core of a decent education.

Thank you Jason, good to hear from you.  Appreciate as always your forwarding of ideas,  Thanks again

Thank you Jason. Look forward to reading the new material and sharing these with the staff.

Mary

Many thanks for this Jason. I love the dragon story which prompts many questions about expectations and stereotyping.

Best wishes

Barbara

Thank you jason, i really appreciate your ideas.

Katy

Thank you for these,

I’m working in Early Years at present, so I’m particularly interested in P4C for littlies – I’ve picked up your game ‘is it better to’.. with the animal cards.  I’m training on thinking skills for 3-5 yr olds but I keep testing your questions on all my colleagues!

Thankyou so much for these . I have just started to teach yr 12 A levle Philosophy and some of these would be useful as starters. Plus I am head of RE so can use these across all year groups.

Catherine

Just wanted to say thanks.  I used the happiness resource with my new class in a P4C session this week as I was able to make links to our whole school theme of celebrations.  The session, went very well with some great thinking and discussion.  I have also created a classroom display using the cards and some of the thoughts that we captured from the children,  I am looking forward to seeing what they think about it when they come into class in the morning.

Nicola

Fantastic! Thanks!

Thanks for all your hard work!

Runa.

Great stuff. Many thanks. Liz

This is very useful to me, thank you, Jason.

I would just like to take this opportunity to thank you for everything that you send me in terms of resources for P4C. They are wonderful ideas and activities. I hope you continue for a long time to come!

Chris

Just thought I would say how much I like your links – school starts next week and I am really looking forward to trying your ideas out.

Siobhan

AUGUST 2011

I have subscribed to your website and am delighted with the resources you have sent by email.

This is a wonderful introduction to P4C, I am so grateful for your prompt response and the quality of the materials,

Thank you,

Pauline

Thank-you Jason,  that link you sent me today is great!

Danielle

Many thanks for all the super ideas you keep sending me. They have certainly enhanced my teaching of P4C and even though the majority of my time is in Reception I am able to adapt your ideas as they are so well presented.

Kathryn Horne

I just wanted to thank you for your interesting and inspiring lessons!

I am collecting them for next years class

Lucy Wozniak

I wanted to thank you for all the e-mails and fantastic P4C material you send. I make great use of it and the students really enjoy it. Looking forward to receiving more after the holidays.

Sue

Thank you so much for sharing your incredible and valuable ideas, links and materials. So many of these have encouraged and helped me on a personal level as well as supporting me in my working role. I have waxed lyrical about your website to teachers I meet and have seen on a number of occasions pupils enjoying debate and discussion about their learning in a variety of creative and inspiring ways.

Many, many thanks again

Thank you for this and the others…they are amazing!!

JULY 2011

Thanks for that-the riddles you sent were great for end of term-challenged and enjoyed by all ages-more of those please!

Hilary

Thank you for continuing to send me your very exciting and valuable ideas & resources. I save them all.   Great for drama workshops and Speaking & Listening activities

Helen

Bounds Green School

I signed up for your free resources a while ago and now have a wonderful file of stuff that I dip into when I need some inspiration or help with structuring thinking/debating stuff in my lessons.

I just wanted to write to you and say how grateful I am – the resources are just fantastic and I can’t believe you give them away free!  I recommend your site to everyone I know who is interested in philosophy/education etc.

I’ve just finished off this year with a year 7 lesson where we used your tag wrestling argument idea and it went down a storm.  It made me think, ‘this is what I want my teaching to be’.  There wasn’t a single student who didn’t get involved and I also saw kids who’ve been quite de-motivated at times step into the ring looking like intellectual prize fighters! And it was so much fun.  Wonderful.

Sara Thorpe

Head of RS, Citizenship and Social Sciences

Malton School

Brilliant.  Thanks very much

Penny

Hi I have just logged on – already receive your e mails and have just seen the vote with your feet cards. Where can i get those – they look fab for my new class in sept/. will be ordering your new mini book v soon. our staff like your first one. Having just completed the level 2 sapere course i am keep to get going again in September !

we loveit

Sue

Thank you for all the wonderful ideas you have inspired ne with. I only came upon you mid year, but have enjoyed using rhe games etc. with my year 4/ 5 class

Deborah

Thank you for all your e-mails this year, Jason – we are enjoying many of your ideas and inspirations in our school and on the staff!

Please keep them coming next year!

Penny

I just wanted to say a big thank you for all the resources they are brilliant!

I always enjoy receiving them and my class love them.

Cecilia Basnett

Falcon Junior Norfolk

Thanks for your latest offerings Jason. Now that I’ve finished teaching for the year I have more time to look through the resources.  I’m a college lecturer and I love your stuff.  I have just started using it with my groups and plan to use them a lot more from September.  We’ve started having philosophical chats in the staff room too which we all love.

I’m so pleased I found you.  Thanks

Keren Morley

Thank you very much for all your fun emails and brain teasers

Patrick

Have used so much of your ideas this year- thank you so much.

Gillian Boyd

I found all your ideas so inspiring, stimulating and fun and so did the kids. Have a wonderful summer. Alex

Many thanks for all the fab things you’ve sent since I’ve subscribed to your website!

Linda Curwen

I signed up for your emails about a month ago and wanted to thank you.

They’ve provided stimuli for some really pertinent discussion and both I and my class have really enjoyed using them. Thanks!

Anna

I just wanted to say thank you so much for the material you are sending me.  It is fantastic – a really oustanding resource.  Keep it coming!

Thanks,

Jonathan Ferstenberg

Thanks for all the resources you’ve sent out. I shall be using them constantly next year too. I recently asked my Yr. 6 children how philosophy might help them when they move to Secondary School. They were obviously quite nervous about the transition but came up with some really interesting points about issues I probably would not have thought of. Some thought they could  discuss things with other people instead of arguing about them, using the language they are used to ‘I disagree with….because.’ Others thought they might even be able to reason with someone who might try to bully them.

It was nice to listen to their responses and I’m sure that using philosophy weekly has given them some very useful ‘tools’ to help them on their way.

Thanks – M. Popham.

You are a star! Thank you so much. I intend to fully make use of the links/resources you have sent in my year one teaching next term. Very much appreciated. Shall advocate you to my colleagues and school contacts. I have been revamping the curriculum in a school and am sending them towards P4C, etc.

Janet Thompson

Phonics Specialist & Literacy Advisor

I just wanted to thank you so much for providing such wonderful, varied resources.  I run a Philosphy Club at an all boys’ school in Surrey for boys ranging from Year 4 to 8 and it has become one of the absolute highlights of the week.  The boys who come are very loyal to the cause and they genuinely get so much from it – in amidst the business of the week I don’t have as much time as I would like to prepare for these sessions, but it is such a help having your resources.

Thank you!

JUNE 2011

Thank you very much for these ideas. They look great.

Sarah Evans

Thanks Jason – yet again thoroughly inspiring

Elaine

I just wanted to thank you for sending information to me.  I am building up a bank of resources with your ideas.

Lynda

I had to send you a note just saying how pleased I am with your work.

It’s very inspiring an up to date.

Thank you so much for sharing your work. Me and my collage in philosophy for children are very interesting in using your stories with our students.

Greetings from Iceland

Drifa

I just want to thank you for sharing your ideas and experience. I can´t tell you how enlighting they have been. I’m from México, I’ve been working with P4C for a long time, but it is since I’ve learned a little bit of what you are doing in England that my enthusiasm and interest for the program has grown.

Claudia Sahagún Jiménez

I really appreciate your emails and have passed lots on to my staff and  the children we work with.

Thank you very much.

Denise King

Inclusion Leader Reay Primary school

We find your resources invaluable so do not apologise for not being able to have new ideas each week!

Kind regards

Margaret Owers

Thank you very much for the information you have sent -now that I have a little time I am beginning to realise how good the material is. I am going to Kenya to spend a week or so in  Kenyan school I would like to use your material out there.

Julie Petrie

I have just joined your email support, I am totally enthused.

Lyn

MAY 2011

Just wanted to say a huge thanks for the brilliant resources.

Keep them coming!

Janice How

I just wanted to say a big thank you to you for the emails that you send.

They are really inspiring and are giving me lots of ideas to help with my

yr9 Form group time.

Emma

I really appreciate the newsletter. i use any number of the ideas on a regular basis and, as well, utilise the concepts in non-p4c lessons.

A great resource, these.

Many thanks!

Wil Davies

Just to say I used argument tennis with Year 10 boys and they loved it!! I am going to use it again later in the term.

Thanks, Sarah

Hi Jason- first of all, let me thank you very much for all the time and effort you put into philosophy resources – it is very much appreciated!

Joy Groom

Thank you for your continued up dates of fabulous material.

Ruth

Thanks for all of your helpful resources over the past few months. I am the G&T coordiantor at the school but have passed them all on to colleagues both in the senior and prep school.

Lynne

Many thanks on an excellent website.

Thanks so much for the wonderfully inspiring ideas and resources, I’m making full use of them in the classroom (secondary RE) and sharing them with colleagues in my role as AST.

I particularly appreciate the ‘extras’ – love the pocketP4C and the video clips are useful to show to non-specialists.

I’m going to use the planning process with my GCSE class this week as a review for marriage and divorce.

Can I just say how useful you have been to me in teaching philosphy to KS1 and I am hoping to move to KS2 next year and use your ideas even more.

Shelly Mitcheson

Thank you for your continued support. I really appreciate all the P4C ideas you supply!

Claire Hennegan.

Hi Jason,

just wanted to send you a quick email to say thank you.

I look forward to receiving your emails they are both interesting and fun.

I do appreciate the effort

they also help me to keep fresh with ideas for P4C and maintain the excitement.

Cecilia

APRIL 2011

Just watched the youtube video regarding toys. What a fantastic resource. Your clear description of how to get from topic/subject to P4C thinking was easy to follow and exactly what I have been looking for recently. In our school we teach around learning values (emotional intelligence, collaboration, creativity, independence, spirituality and thinking)which are embedded into Integrated Learning Units (topic based units). It is enquiry based learning at its core and we are just beginning to embed the P4C criteria and principles into our teaching. However, we have been struggling to find stimuli/resources which ‘fit’ our units. Now, with your demonstration of ‘backwards planning’, we can ‘personalise’ our units whilst practising our thinking skills at the same time. The final stage – ensuring all the thinking skills are being taught – puts all the pieces of the puzzle together.

Thank you and I am looking forward to developing this technique with our staff.

I find your emails very interesting and stimulating!

regards

Margaret

MARCH 2011

Thanks for your useful resources. Hope to get more.

Really like the Chauffeur idea – great for training new teachers as I do Thanks Carol Lowry AST Maths

Just brilliant, the students loved it.

Thank you for this service. I am level 3 SAPERE trained in P4C but have been doing it with secondary kids. I am now working with Primary for the first time and thought I had better refresh, especially on resources.

Jill

I’m not sure if you receive emails but just wanted to say how much I appreciate the resources and ideas as this is all new to me and I have only done 1 day of a two day course so far.

I am currently trying things out with my year 1 class and am definitely going to buy the book.

Thank you for setting up such a great resource sharing system!

I’m very happy to receive your material!

Liza

FEBRUARY 2011

Thanks for these – they are fantastic and I think I will use the twin story with my y5 classes. They are beginning a unit of work entitled ‘Good to be Me’ and I think this will be a great starter.

Many thanks indeed for all this help.

Many thanks, Jason!  It’s very kind of you to take time to send me all these materials and links.  I’ve had a good nose around your website, too – delightful!

Very useful leading up to easter – thanks for all the great resources.

Marie

Found this topic -  ‘Icebreakers and more thinkers games’ fantastic.

Thanks so much for the information and the fantastic resources you have sent to me. I teach ‘Life Skills’ ( PSHE/Citizenship/SEAL) in a middle school and I am really interested in P4C. I would love to attend some training or organise workshops.

JANUARY 2011

Thanks for all the great resources, am enjoying using them in the classroom.

DECEMBER 2010

I have just subscribed to your emails via Newton Abbot College in Devon and I wanted to thank you for sharing your ideas.  Your web site is brilliant too.

Marilys

Thanks for all your great information and resources. I am currently studying towards my final year of the BA Honors in Education and I work full time in a school. All information i helping with my thinking skills assignment,thank you.

I have only been doing p4c for a couple of months. As I am a teaching assistant I don’t get a chance to do this in class. Instead I run a philosophy club for yr6 pupils. I thought you would like to hear ( after your comment about being thanked ) that after each session the children always thank me. We are all really enjoying the club and I have used some of the resources that you send out. So thank you very much from me too.

Just a big thankyou for all the resources and info you keep sending, it’s all so useful, interesting and very much appreciated.

Many thanks for these great puzzles and philosophical thinking prompts.

I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your thoughts and ideas. I no longer teach in school but lecture PGCE students at Uni – I hope I am helping them to become thinkers so that they can become truly reflective teachers.

Enjoyed your Christmas Hats puzzle. Sent it to all staff. Have had some asking for more.

Great! whole school having a go in tutor time next week Carol Lowry AST Maths

We are all doing some philosophy every week and the children love it. I am building up to doing a full enquiry next term.

Thanks for web links. The puzzle looks fun!

Jackie

Thank you so much for the little booklets, just arrived.  They are ideal. Sue

Thank you so much for these lovely resources.

Zohra

Thank you Jason, I am doing a module on p4c in my pgce and have an assignment to write in a few weeks. This will be a great help and I look forward to trying it in the classroom!

Debbie

Many Thanks Jason, these are great. I will also watch the recommended video clip.

Thanks very much I am very excited to read all of your information

Dr Gaynor Sharp

Thank you so much Jason – all resources and websites very, very much appreciated. I am using some of the resources immediately, with my grandson!

Thank you for all the updates they are greatly appeciated and regularly used.

Paula Hart

Thanks for the site – I work part-time and go into my local primary school to run enrichment activities for G&T children and do occasional philosophy lessons across the school (I’m P4C level 1 trained). Your resources are always the first I go to now.

I’m having great fun with my half hour P4C classes. Thanks for all the great ideas.

Lisa Atkins

Just a quick email to say how useful I am finding all your links and suggestions. I think P4C is excellent and providing loads of resouces for my staff to use.

Rowan

Thank you for the regular materials and thought provoking articles – I think the article on NROWA is timely – it’s very easy to say as an encouragment to get the children to offer their ideas but can easily lead to not challenging opinions and views that need to be challenged. I have just started on p4c and  I am trying to get children to reflect on the ideas of others and state whether they agree or  disagree with reasons of their own. It’s quite demanding for 8 and 9 year olds but after 2 sessions I have had some very positive responses from the children.

Thank you for all the fantastic resources you have emailed me so far. Philosphy for Children is an important part of our school development plan this year so these resources and ideas for delivery will be really helpful.

Jason, just down-loaded your excellent attachments -for which many thanks. So good to have all this very rich material ‘at the touch of a button.’

We have been completing a skills based topic of Philosophy in Year 8. Your dilemmas are great. Have used fairness activity and will be using post christmas activities at the beginning of next term. Will collect anything else for our next year’s Philosophy project. Great stuff.

Thank you very much.

Ruth

Thank you very much for all your ideas and support!

Best wishes

Julieta

Hi Jason, thank you again for another excellent resource. My year 5 children enjoy the zigzag books as they can take them home and share them with their parents and start a discussion about what we are learning at school.

Brilliant – Thank you