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.
This is a follow up Q&A that I hosted and taken from a subsequent Facebook live event. NAPE has been a long term supporter of the Education on Fire podcast and I have been involved with the association for over 5 years, the last 18 months as vice chair. I thought this discussion was very insightful and wanted to give you the opportunity to hear it.
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.This is a follow up Q&A taken from a subsequent Facebook live event.Tony suggested four main arguments for a balanced and broadly-based primary curriculum:that the law states…
Aidan Whytock is the founder of Sharpen, the new platform for smart note taking. A successful actor and entrepreneur, Aidan has drawn on his background to design a tool specifically for the education sector to provide a revolutionary new way to access and apply learning. Sharpen fills a real gap in the education landscape for…
Maccs Pescatore is the CEO of Montessori Centre International (MCI), a leading provider of, and facilitator in the provision of Montessori training and education in the UK and around the world. It provides the sector’s marker of quality assurance through its Standards & Training Accreditation Review (STAR) framework. Resources are made available to parents and…
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…
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…