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P4C Resources - SAPERE Resources for doing philosophy in schools, colleges and communities, including early years, primary and secondary schools as well as AP

October 10th is World Mental Health Day and we have produced a free resource to help people explore ideas around coping, resilience, feeling alone and being challenged. The resource consists of several short exercises as well as a longer enquiry you could facilitate

AI Coaching in P4C - SAPERE This collaboration between Thoughtful & Starlight will explore how AI coaching can support facilitators in reflecting on their enquiries.

Read about our pilot project with Starlight to see if AI coaching can help assist facilitators to reflect and improve their practice

We wondered and we wandered, now please help @thoughtfulp4c.bsky.social meet our fundraising target so we can bring the benefits of good conversation to care-experienced young people.

sapere.org.uk/wonder-wander/

#WonderWander2025
#P4C
#PublicPhilosophy
#CareExperienced

We have secured more funding for work in London schools, and with care leavers in prisons, working with the wonderful Blue Cabin; our Youth Board; Fellowships; new Trustees; and new Award Schools! And the year has only just begun!

Read all about it here: buff.ly/VBBThEA 2/2

Collaboration and Community at the heart of our work

Our news this month is full of collaborations and community: we join forces with The Philosophy Foundation, APIS and Starlight, our Conference gains funding by The Royal Institute of Philosophy & Analysis Trust, plus our annual fundraiser #WonderWander2025, buff.ly/VBBThEA 1/2

Missing home in Pembrokeshire & seeing the Pembrokeshire ponies on my morning run. A quick update to say that all resources from our events are uploaded & we hope they will serve as a bit of inspiration for you to bring #philosophyinthewild @inparenthesis.bsky.social
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To celebrate the new term you can access our new parent resource for FREE until the end of September! The resource created in collaboration with Tooled Up Education, focuses on LEARNING. Is it possible to have a no learning day? Find it here: p4c.com/talking-to-c...

P4C taster events - SAPERE If you’re curious and wondering about Philosophy for Children, Colleges and Communities, and why it’s a key part of many schools’ curricula, please join us for “Consider P4C”, a free online taster…

will be able to book the full course with a discount equivalent to the cost already paid for this session (£50).

This year we are running this as an open module on November 20th: World Philosophy Day

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P4C taster events - SAPERE If you’re curious and wondering about Philosophy for Children, Colleges and Communities, and why it’s a key part of many schools’ curricula, please join us for “Consider P4C”, a free online taster…

and you can join in for only £50. It also serves as the first of six modules that comprise the new SAPERE Level 1 course for beginners. Therefore, “Experience P4C” participants who later choose to undertake SAPERE Level 1 training on our new pathway (usual cost: £275), 3/4

P4C taster events - SAPERE If you’re curious and wondering about Philosophy for Children, Colleges and Communities, and why it’s a key part of many schools’ curricula, please join us for “Consider P4C”, a free online taster…

introducing you to the ethos of P4C, the versatile practices of question-forming and reason-giving, and the kind of concepts and questions ripe for philosophical investigation. All in one wonderful, interactive 2-hour session.

Experience P4C is a stand-alone introduction to our model of P4C, 2/4

Experience P4C is an online webinar aimed at teachers, parents and other professionals working with young people and the public, and anyone else curious about the power of philosophical enquiry.

The webinar, led by one of our community of trainers, will show you what it’s like to philosophise 1/4

Whether you choose online or face-to-face, our Level 2 course builds on the Level 1 Foundation course & equips you with the knowledge, skills and experiences you need to reflect on and develop your P4C practice. Dates this term: In-person 18th-19th Sept, online 12th, 19th, & 26th Nov buff.ly/m8fU0Mc

Lead P4C - SAPERE This training strand is a collaboration between SAPERE and DialogueWorks and will help develop leaders of P4C in schools or other instiutions

Want to take P4C further in your school?
Our Lead P4C Course is designed for teachers + leaders who want to embed P4C and sustain it long-term.

💻 3 live online twilight sessions
💷 £275 | Practical + inspiring
🗓️ Oct–Jan & Mar–Jun cohorts available

Limited spaces – book today:

Pages of my life: Art, care and conversation - Blue Cabin A free, online event to explore artworks produced by young men in Deerbolt Prison.

Young men in HMP Deerbolt have been working with artists to create their own exhibition and artists' book. Find out more about their work and share your responses, which will be fed back to the artists.

Find out more and book a place for this free, online event: wearebluecabin.com/latest/pages...

Our next in-person Level One runs in London on 30th September and October 1st: buff.ly/qdRcLu0

The original '10 steps' have been updated with the SAPERE elements giving you the flexibility to combine them to form shorter exercises, regular enquiries, or longer ones that can extend over a few weeks - all of them will cultivate critical thinking in a manageable and immediate way.

Our new Level One training will get you started on the Thoughtful pathway to bring philosophical thinking to your classroom or education space. Our courses help you experience, theorise, plan, evaluate, facilitate, and apply P4C.

Very many congratulations to Queen's Inclosure Primary School who have gained a Bronze Award to start the year! Our Awards help support and celebrate schools on their P4C journey, allowing them to deepen practice across the school and community. buff.ly/PsWQtYl

The year starts well for Sedlescombe Primary who have achieved a P4C Bronze Award this Summer. They are heading for Silver now as well! Congratulations to all the staff, pupils and governors for the work put into embedding philosophy in your school.

Wonder Wander - SAPERE Our annual campaign to bring philosophical thinking to more people, helping to raise funds for P4C to be done with disadvantaged communities

This year they are ‘wondering’ across London - and will be joined by groups in Derbyshire, Dartmoor, Hampshire and Oxford, all thinking and talking to raise money for us to work with looked-after children.

Please donate your questions and cash here, you can also join in the walks! buff.ly/Un2oBRW

Last year Grace and Emma ‘wondered’ across the Peak District for 5 hours talking about all the questions you donated to raise money to give young people philosophy sessions in school.

The Shaping Us Framework - CFEC The Shaping Us Framework

#p4c can support #EYFS educators to develop the children they work with in every single one of the critical 6 social and emotional skill areas identified in The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood's recent 'Shaping Us' Framework ⬇️

Wonder Wander - SAPERE Our annual campaign to bring philosophical thinking to more people, helping to raise funds for P4C to be done with disadvantaged communities

What has been the greatest benefit of #p4c in your life?

Our upcoming #WonderWander2025 event will raise money so that children in care can enjoy those benefits too. Please help us by making a donation now, and follow the link below to see whether you could join in.

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P4C Foundation Course Level 1 - SAPERE Start practising P4C in your classroom straightaway with our Level 1 P4C Foundation Course, available online and face-to-face.

“Pedagogically, P4C changed how I taught, informed why I taught, and improved every aspect of teaching.“

Read about Jan's experience here: buff.ly/JrfCIPY

Book yourself onto our August course to start September with a change buff.ly/13cahFy

P4C improves both cognitive and socio-emotional skills. Join us for our Level One Course this August, delivered over 3, 4-hour online sessions (26th, 27th, 28th of August). The course is dynamic, interactive, and very practical. We do first and reflect aftewards. buff.ly/13cahFy

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Wonderful Angie Hobbs, honorary patron of The Philosophy Foundation and one of our Keynote Speakers at our Annual Conference in November gives us her questions for #Wonderwander25 our campaign to bring philosophy into more people’s lives and to specifically run sessions for looked after children.

Our lovely new Trustee Amanda Burgess gives us her question for our #wonderwander25 fundraiser event. Send us yours on social media or on the form on our website. #p4c #philosophyforchildren #philosophyforlife #edusky

www.sapere.org.uk/wonder-wander/

Keir Starmer urged to honour pledge to embed speaking skills in England’s schools Alastair Campbell and children’s author Michael Rosen among advocates calling for oracy to be in curriculum

In addition to embedding climate, nature and sustainability in education, young people need to develop skills in confident communication and robust mental dexterity. #Oracy and #P4C are vital. Check @voice21oracy.bsky.social & @saperep4c.bsky.social 🌱
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New Trustee Brian Grady gives us his questions for #WonderWander25.
We are raising funds to work with looked after children and we need your questions to power us on our wanders in London, Derbyshire and Dartmoor. Find out how you can join in or donate
www.sapere.org.uk/wonder-wander #edusky #p4c