News

This week, an argument game that gets everyone talking about questions of escalating importance. If it’s a nice day, play it outside! Also a topical twist on a tested enquiry about “got-to’s”. Argument Stand-Off Each participant needs a mini-whiteboard with pen and eraser. Stand in a circle and turn to face a partner, then one person in […]

I was at Charles Kingsley Primary School in Hampshire last week, on a pop-up overnight camp for Year 6. Literally pop-up in this case, as storm force winds mean the camp retreated inside the school hall with pop-up tents! Learn more about what my colleagues at Outspark and I were doing here. Having made the most of the better weather with scavenger

This month and probably next, our online classes are using The If Odyssey by Peter Worley, a philosophy-mythology fusion mining the exploits of Odysseus with the Trojan Horse, the Lotus Eaters, the Cyclops and so on for compelling questions.  The book both “give you some fish” in the form of sessions an experienced P4Cer can just pick up and run