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Education On Fire
077: Character building PE with Jim Harte
Jim Harte is Physical Education Teacher at Cypress Woods Elementary School in Palm Harbor, FL. Jim has over 37 years coaching and teaching experience. His programs have been recognized for Creativity and Innovation in PE and Recess. Jim’s personal coaching and teaching philosophy is to develop the whole individual with a special emphasis on sound…
076: Headteacher view of PE
Peter Cansell is my resident education expert. He has great experience of teaching PE in primary schools, as well as being responsible for how it was integrated into his school when he was a Headteacher. Peter has been in education professionally for 35 years, teaching in middle schools in Oxford, doing advisory work, teaching higher education…
075: Skills4Sport with Alex Dunn
Alex Dunn talks to me about how his experience of teaching PE in schools relates to sport in the community. Skills4Sport is an established company providing lessons, courses, camps and club facilities in the Northamptonshire area. Running Roade Tennis Club and Nighthawks Badminton Club gives Alex Dunn the ideal base to promote both sports.…
Learning On Fire
Trivial Warfare with Jonathan Oakes. LF008
Jonathan Oakes joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life. Our guest – Jonathan Oakes Jonathan’s passion for trivia led him to create Trivial Warfare one the worlds leading podcasts in that niche. So far Jonathan has combined this passion with…
Softwarepreneur with Hani Mourra. LF007
Hani Mourra joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life. Our guest – Hani Mourra Hani’s passion is creating automation software for content creators. These include – Repurpose which automatically publishes audio and video content to multiple platforms to help grow your…
Live your truth with Rick Clemons. LF006
Rick Clemons joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life. Our guest – Rick Clemons Rick started his career in the hotel industry in the Southwest USA. He moved to California with his wife and 2 children and changed direction slightly…
National Association for Primary Education
Create Education 3D Printing – NAPE 003
Create Education invited Peter Cansell and Mark Taylor from the National Association for Primary Education to the TCT Show held at The National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, UK to discuss how 3D printing is inspiring children in schools. Paul Croft a Director of UltimakerGB the UK & Ire operations for Ultimaker and the Founder of the…
When I was a small boy – NAPE 002
When I was a small boy – A letter from Christian Schiller to L.G.Marsh The National Association for Primary Education present an annual lecture with a guest speaker who creates their talk inspired by the work of Christian Schiller. This episode is read by Peter Cansell from the book ‘Christian Schiller in his own words’…
What is education? – NAPE 001
What is education and how does it fit within todays school system? I chat to Dr. Tony Eaude about his 2018 lecture ‘Re-humanising primary education – placing trust in teachers, learning from the legacy of Christian Schiller’ The National Association for Primary Education organises guest speakers for the annual lecture which uses the work of Christian…
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Rosemary Evans Bequest Award
National Association for Primary Education Rosemary Evans Bequest Award Are you a recently qualified early years / primary teacher (QTS gained since June 2016)? Are you keen to reflect on your professional development as a classroom practitioner? Are you keen to get something published in an educational journal and add it to your CV? If…
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Our aim is to achieve a higher priority for the education of children from birth to 13. High quality learning in the early years of life is vitally important to the creation of an educated society. Young children are not simply preparing for the future, they are living a never to be repeated time of life and the best way to learn is to live.