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I'm Mark Taylor and I interview educators from around the world so that I can enable you to support your children to live, learn and grow to their full potential

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3 min update on future podcast release days

October 31, 2026

Mark Taylor will be adding extra podcasts to the current weekly schedule on an ad hoc basis.🔥 This will help give you more valuable conversations to support young people.🔥 Reduce the time between recording and release dates for guests as required🔥 Provided more flexibility for mini series🔥 Allow me to produce the show in a…

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Antivirus for What We Eat: How Jordan Robinson Turned Coding Into Food Safety

October 26, 2026

What if there was antivirus software for what we eat? Software architect Jordan Robinson, a father of two and former lead instructor with Cultivating Coders, shares how teaching kids to code and refurbishing thousands of donated computers led him to build Piece of Mind. Anxin: Piece of Mind is an AI-powered food-safety platform. It helps…

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Rob Heller: Teaching Teens Life Skills, Social Skills and Resilience in a Phone-Based World

October 19, 2026

Rob Heller is a successful entrepreneur, youth development innovator, and founder of the Boost Program, a comprehensive personal development curriculum designed to equip teens and young adults with the essential life, social, and mental health skills that traditional education overlooks. After selling his insurance firm for eight figures to a publicly held company, Rob witnessed…

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Top 10 resources you can use to support learning

As discussed by guests on the podcast these include:

A Children's Podcast, Mentoring, Online Teaching and Learning Tool, Science, Maths, Spelling, Reading & Writing, Arts, Resilience Empathy & Global Citizenship, Parent Engagement, Whole School Mental Health

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Most Recent Blog Posts

How to play the Tambourine

01 Oct 2019

  In this series of videos Mark Taylor from Primary Music on Fire demonstrates how to play the percussion instruments from the percussion trolley. Mark combines his professional performing career with teaching drums, percussion instruments and whole group rhythm workshops. With 25 years experience there is something to take away for everyone.   Primary Music…

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How to play percussion instruments

24 Sep 2019

In this series of videos Mark Taylor from Primary Music on Fire demonstrates how to play the percussion instruments from the percussion trolley but also how to think about using them. Mark combines his professional performing career with teaching drums, percussion instruments and whole group rhythm workshops. With 25 years experience there is something to…

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Season 7 – Wellbeing #website

17 Sep 2019
Season 7 - Wellbeing #website This short video gives some information about the recent podcast releases and the upcoming NAPE podcast supporting student teachers. Read More

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National Association for Primary Education

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.

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