In Westlands Primary School today, Year 4 were doing autobiography, so we did a Philosopher’s Cocktail Party to explore various aspects of “What makes you you?” and after that, a whole lot of options for how to get more P4C happening in your school from September. Philosopher’s Cocktail Party Stand up, find a partner, and …
This week, a session on a very accessible branch of philosophy: aesthetics, with the added bonus of making some art first! It was created by our colleague Marley Davies for our Zoom P4C lessons at p4he.org. The examples below are from children in her online class. Stimulus: The Art Challenge Give your class the following menu of …
This week, the second in our two-parter on moral dilemmas. In this one, find questions about Short term vs Long term, and Individual vs Community. Last week’s email covered Justice vs Mercy and Truth vs Loyalty, and also contained advice on facilitation. Catch up here. Dilemma 1: Short term vs Long term Matteo recently graduated from …
