Towards a balanced and broadly-based curriculum was the theme of the National Association for Primary Education conference in March 2021. The keynote lecture was given by Dr. Tony Eaude.He suggested four main arguments for a balanced and broadly-based primary curriculum: that the law states that schools must offer this (as it does) and that Ofsted…
Teach the Future is an inclusive, well organised and persistent campaign by secondary and tertiary education students to greatly improve education on the climate emergency and ecological crisis in the UK. In this episode Robson Augusta chats to Mark Taylor about how it is never too early to start learning about how the climate emergency…
Just Like Us is the charity for LGBT+ young people. Their mission is to empower LGBT+ young people to make education more inclusive, and they work directly with educators at all types of schools. It was founded five years ago for a simple reason: growing up LGBT+ is still unacceptably tough. You can book a…
This solo episode with Mark Taylor is a catch up about what is going on within Education on Fire. We have some shoutouts to listeners who have got in touch and give details of the free resources available at EducationOnFire.com If you would like to support the Education on Fire GoFundMe campaign to create a…
Mark Taylor (Vice Chair of National Association for Primary Education) talks to Penny Borkett. Penny wrote an article for the Primary First Journal issue 29 entitled: Who are you? – The importance of building identity in the early years and the place of culture within this. Penny has spent many years working as a teaching…
Susie Harder, M.A., CCC-SLP is an experienced clinician who devotes much of her passion to working with children who stutter. She works in private practice and the school setting to help support children and provides workshops and consulting-based support to school districts across California. She recently created the Junior Authors Program (a revolutionary literacy-based platform).…
National Association for Primary Education publish a professional journal called Primary First 3 times a year. It is FREE to NAPE members or can be purchased for £5 from the National Office. In this episode Mark Taylor (Vice Chair of NAPE) talks to Seraphina Simmons-Bah who wrote an article for issue 29 entitled: Exploring the…
At the start of 2020, Your Town launched a community campaign called We Are Next, a national campaign to get the next generation moving and more connected with health, fitness and their community. We Are Next have reached over 1600 kids across 10 schools, in two different towns in Hertfordshire. The original idea was to…
National Association for Primary Education publish a professional journal called Primary First 3 times a year. It is FREE to NAPE members or can be purchased for £5 from the National Office. In this episode Mark Taylor (Vice Chair of NAPE) talks to Penny Rabiger who wrote an article for issue 29 entitled: Does teaching…