VALUES-BASED EDUCATION – THE BEATING HEART OF PRIMARY EDUCATION – NAPE 084
CHRISTIAN SCHILLER LECTURE PRESENTED BY DR. NEIL HAWKES
This presentation will aim to inspire listeners to understand why Values-based Education (VbE) is now being considered as the foundation of school culture worldwide. He will explain the key elements of the VbE model and why practitioners love it so much. He will draw on good practice from Primary Schools that find it to be the ‘beating heart of their education’. Neil will describe the impact that VbE is having on developing what he describes as ethical leadership and why this concept should be central in the Primary School curriculum.
Dr. Neil Hawkes is well known as an educator, motivational speaker, broadcaster, writer and social commentator.
He first gained international recognition when he was a Headteacher in Oxfordshire, where he worked with a school community to devise and implement a pedagogical system that would give children a transformational ethical vocabulary, based on values such as respect, tolerance, humility and justice. Pupils were empowered to be self-leaders, with an active moral compass that affected behaviour, their thinking and the quality of their school work. Values-based Education (VbE) is now recognised internationally as a key dimension in school improvement and enhancing the nature of pupil experience and many schools have now gained accreditation for the quality of their values-based education, including Bannockburn Primary School where the Schiller lecture is being hosted.
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Primary Education Summit
Primary Education Summit 2023 – NAPE 083
National Association for Primary Education is proud to present a Primary Education Summit ‘Visions for the Future’ over two weeks starting on 15th March 2023. This is intended to promote discussion about the type of rich and engaging primary education which will enable all our children to meet the challenges they face now and in the future. This will include the annual Christian Schiller Lecture ‘Values-based Education – the beating heart of Primary Education’ presented by Dr. Neil Hawkes, eleven pre-recorded guest presentations and four live panel discussions led by prominent figures in primary education. Full details of these are given below. We very much hope that you will wish to join us for some or all of these sessions – and let other people in your school or organization know.
Taking Tes digital with editor Jon Severs – NAPE 082
Jon Severs is editor of Tes. He was previously commissioning editor at Tes, responsible for the teaching and learning content, as well as policy, leadership and pastoral articles. Before that, he wrote and edited for both trade and consumer titles.
Jon explains the journey of taking the traditional Tes magazine, which was established in 1910, to their new online delivery which can be more reactive in our modern age.
If you want to contribute to Tes in the way mentioned in the show here are the 2 contacts.
dan.worth@tes.com
helen.amass@tes.com
360 Skills For Life with Rob Hattersley – NAPE 081
Prepared for life, not just exams
360 are a dynamic social enterprise developing essential skills for life in young people through an interactive learning approach we call discuss, decide and do.
360 Skills For Life provide scenario-based educational experiences that equip learners with the skills, knowledge and confidence to live active, fulfilling and safer lives in stronger and more sustainable communities.
Experience Skill City, their unique VR environment, bringing to life real world safeguarding dilemmas in realistic but safe scenarios.
Their values
- We listen in order to continually learn and improve
- We connect and collaborate because partnerships achieve more for less
- We put the learner and their needs first
- We empower and challenge rather than instruct
- We engage and involve learners in our development
- We adapt and are flexible when encountering new situations and knowledge
- We include all learners regardless of age, disability, gender, relationship or parental status, race, belief, sex or sexual orientation
- We seek the best in everyone to realise individual and collective potential
Their approach
- Holistic, cross-curricular education that delivers transferable skills for 21st century life
- Immersive, practical and interactive learning in which users discuss, make decisions and then do, rather than simply learning facts
- Awareness of surroundings to make good risk assessments, confidently make better decisions and deal with individual and collective challenges
- Blended learning where online, in-school and outdoor strands are closely integrated
- Provision of a realistic dilemma-based virtual Skill City as the core resource
- Partnership with other organisations to maximise impact and value
Full details available at www.360skillsforlife.org
Nature Premium campaign with Dr Sara Collins – NAPE 080
The Nature Premium campaign is being led by the Forest School Association (FSA). With around 2000 practicing members the Forest School Association is the professional body and UK wide voice for Forest School, promoting and supporting best practice, cohesion and ‘quality Forest School for all.
Guidance is being provided by a campaign steering group comprising representatives of key organisations within the outdoors learning industry and conservation sector (campaign partners).
In addition, the campaign will seek support from allies across multiple sectors. The private sector will be particularly important in terms of sponsoring the campaign and achieving our goal.
The campaign has been developed and managed on an entirely voluntary basis with the FSA underwriting the costs and FSA directors contributing a huge amount of their time. We recognise that the campaign is more likely to be successful if it has additional voluntary and financial resources.
The campaign is deliberately independent and simply seeks to increase children’s engagement with nature and realise the huge number of associated benefits. Supporters within the outdoors learning industry will, on their own terms, lay-out and make their ‘offer’ for how the nature premium could be used to support school communities, young people, and families. Each will use their own networks to support the campaign.
Dr Sara Collins is a biologist who completed her doctorate at Imperial College, London while working with the Forestry Commission. Post research she worked for a Palo Alto biotech company focusing on European sales, expanding into Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus. At the same time, she completed her MBA. She took a career break when her son was born and worked as a Visiting Teaching Fellow at Bath University where she wrote and taught a course on developing entrepreneurial skills in biotechnology. Sara qualified as a Forest School practitioner because it took her back to nature and fitted in with her son’s academic year. She is deputy-chair of a national charity and FRSA. Sara has worked in urban, multi-ethnic primary schools in Portsmouth for over ten years and developed the volunteer led Nature Premium campaign during Lockdown I. She continues to combine campaigning with her self-employed work in local schools.
saracollins@naturepremium.org
2 online events for the summer term
Mental Health/Wellbeing – How to support pupils with transition to secondary school with Sam Moinet from Student Breakthrough (May 16th)
Ocean Plastic & Climate Change – Join Ellie Jackson author of the Wild Tribe Heroes book series as we invite pupils to write a story based on this topic in a writing festival (June 13th)
For full details and booking forms please visit nape.org.uk/online-events