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Underlying our approach to primary education is a fundamental premiss that the educative process is far-reaching in its scope, as much to do with the cultivation of personal, social and emotional relationships as it is with academic skill enhancement.
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If you want to read more about progressive education and John’s writing, you will be pleased to read that a special edition of the primary first journal is about to be available. Soon afterwards there will be a book available covering John’s life and his works Details to follow
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Fancing doing a play next summer at your school? Here is an interesting theme. Video to follow soon.
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View rare archive footage of children working in two primary schools in the 1985, 40 years ago. The film records the integration of art work in the progressive primary curriculum, making books. The variety of different skills and quality of the work displayed is breath-taking.
In my last video I examined DFES’s 2025 Framework for writing. One of my observations was that the teaching of handwriting did not take into account children’s physical development at reception age. Mark-making and emergent writing was downplayed. So here is one I did earlier!
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This has just been published.
Office email is: NAPEnationaloffice@gmail.com
Update: NAHT considering industrial action as a result of these reforms.
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DfE Writing Framework 2025
Issued at the end of term in July, as a guidance document I think it has a number of flaws.
This video does not intend to summarise the entire document but hilight some worrying omissions, some deliberate, you need to be aware.
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More on comments from the media about Ofsted's 2025 revised model of Inspection on our Website News.
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The 'Headteacher Update' publication reflects on the Schools 'fury' over the 2025 Ofsted Inspection model. The National Education Union actually says that the 'New Ofsted inspection framework will be bad for schools, the workforce and for parents and students'. Please post your comments there.
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Letter to Professor Francis
The Primary Umbrella Group (PUG), with an interest and expertise in young children’s education and the primary curriculum, are very concerned at several aspects of the Curriculum and Assessment Review.
Full letter nape.org.uk/admin/UserFiles/34/file/candapugletter.pdf
School's Week has pointed out, the timing is poor because, '...it has been released before the culmination of the curriculum review'. Practitioners are upset by how much emergent writing has been down-played and even ruled out.
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This video presents live hilights of the festival of voices_FOV. Oxfordshire NAPE has been organising the FOV for 40 years! This is truly a NAPE milestone.
Children's facial images have been blurred in this video to avoid safeguarding risks.
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The NFER highlighted that the wording the education secretary used'. “...seems to deliberately exclude primary schools from the definition”
Schools Week magazine asks the DfE to exercise caution.
schoolsweek.co.uk/recruitment-crisis-are-we-finally-turning-the-corner/
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The Sky Arts ‘art week' is next week. Schools signed in for access to a huge art resource featuring well-known celebrities (on a half-hour video) with supporting material to assist planning. This amazing resource is available for years to come, not only for art week!
Time Odyssey is a charity that works hard to enable primary school children better access to museums through tailor-made software and even for some schools, grants for coach travel. We thank Jemima Montague, UK director of Art Explora for explaining how it all works.
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NAPE member's latest Primary First e-Journal. Details at
nape.org.uk/publications
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Charlotte Hacking presented a most useful insight of the recent publication of; 'The Balancing Act', which she co-authored with Dominic Wyse. The book is described as 'an evidence-based approach to the teaching phonics, reading and writing'.
Dominic Wyse is Professor of Early Childhood & Primary Education at University College, London.
Dominic's blog examines the government's attempts to update the existing school's curriculum. Grim reading for primary practitioners.
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The Alternative Big Consultation. Analysis of this survey data clearly indicated that respondents did not think that the proposed framework would work. A majority of the respondents were most concerned:
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A preview of three conference videos, available from NAPE. These were recorded at Trinity Leeds University last month.
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Email the National Office NAPEnationaloffice@gmail.com to purchase the link to these videos.
Conference 2025 Leeds Trinity University.
Three recorded presentations.
Curriculum at the crossroads (Prof. Mick Waters), Curriculum of hope (Prof. Leigh Hoath) and Philosophy and the Curriculum (Dr Aimee Quickfall)
3 video links at £10 Email: NAPENationaloffice@gmail.com
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Many thanks to Wendy Ellyatt for making us aware of National Children’s day in this video. Wendy tells about the resource packs and images to download.
National Children’s Day Website
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Instill the love of poetry in your class, your school and in you?
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Is the new, proposed inspection model for Ofsted fit for primary schools, so is it fit for purpose? NAPE recommends you read this and add your reaction and voice to remove the secondary-style Ofsted framework to a primary-style inspection model.
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OFSTED have proposed changes, from 256 outcomes to the possibility of nearly 400,000! What could possibly go wrong? Wouldn't it be better to have a system more suited to Primary Schools? not a subject-based secondary model?
Peter Cansell (NAPE Information Officer)
Edited blog from the website
I reported last term that teachers were alarmed on how many children were 'not ready' for school. However, Wendy Scott, NAPE's Early Years consultant reminded me that 'was it not the case that schools were not ready?'
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This video is about Schiller lectures. Christian's philosophy is still so important to primary education today. NAPE asks a leading national primary school 'expert' in their field to share their knowledge and understandings with us. 12th March in Pumstead,London.
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