The Philosophy Man

@CrossCountryUK What about SWR? Because I've had to change my destination otherwise I'd have no where to go tonight!

@makethinkingfun Hello. Passengers could use West Midland and GWR :-) ^EB

STORM CLAUDIA: DO NOT TRAVEL between Birmingham New Street and Cardiff Central / Bristol / the South West. CrossCountry cannot guarantee that you will arrive at your destination if you travel today. Tickets from today can be used for travel tomorrow.

The #ThoughtfulConference2025 is less than a month away, among our contributors is Tom Bigglestone (from @makethinkingfun on how we ensure all children get the chance to speak for longer—and more often through small-group discussions. Book now: sapere.org.uk/conference-202…

Brilliant weekend in Queenscliff, Victoria at a conference for FAPSA, the Federation of Asia-Pacific Philosophy in Schools Associations. We met with colleagues from this quarter of the globe and ran workshops on the theme of trusting children to work together in smaller groups.

So far my class this year are a bit flat. There's a few that love to contribute and will dominate, but the majority aren't really getting stuck in yet. Today, I gave them a video from these guys @makethinkingfun and straight away nearly everyone had something to say. Brilliant!

Here’s Tom, Jason and Mark Irwin celebrating the end of a very successful fortnight promoting oracy in South Australia. Celebrations were even more fervent for those supporting (or “barracking”!) for the Brisbane Lions!

Wonderful to be in South Australia working with UniSA and the DfE to promote oracy in schools. Tom and Jason have been working with over 200 teachers over five events. A huge thank you fo Mark Irwin for organising the trip and being such a welcoming host!

One of many happy attendees at the workshops Tom and Jason have been running for Adelaide teachers. Thanks to the South Australia Dept for Education, UniSA and philanthropist and social-anxiety-related speech scholar Mark Irwin for making it happen!

Our first time at Blackheath High Juniors, delivering P4C Philosophy for Children and Oracy INSET to all Junior school staff. We were busy working with them to create their own resources to use in their very next lessons. Thank you for a lovely day!

@TPExpressTrains Yes, so we will claim delay repay to cover the cost of the bus we’ve had to take instead.

@makethinkingfun The next service running is the 19:12 service I'm afraid. ^Kim

@TPExpressTrains hi, our train from Chester le street to Newcastle has been cancelled and next one is at 1912. Can we use our ticket on local buses?

@TPExpressTrains We were due to get the 612 from Chester le street to Newcastle. Thanks.

@makethinkingfun Hello, apologies for the cancellation, tickets won't be accepted on the bus services I'm afraid. What time service were you due to travel on? ^Kim

Just had to pay to take the bus because your train was cancelled - the bus driver said nothing had been told to him. it’ll take us five times as long - I trust we can apply for this cost to be refunded from you?

@CastleCourtClas @salisburycathsc @SAPERE_P4C Excellent (as someone who once did work experience with the traffic police I won’t spoil the answer!) And great choice of trip too (as someone who grew up in Salisbury!)

Real-World Philosophy: a member of my Yr8 Philosophy class saw this sign yesterday on the way to @salisburycathsc and asked ‘How do they know that?’ - a question we tried to answer in our epistemology lesson this morning….. #CastleCourtCurious @SAPERE_P4C @makethinkingfun

In September, Tom Bigglestone, co-founder of Debate Planet, came to Beacon Academy to host a fantastic workshop for our KS3 Debate Club! Find out more at tinyurl.com/3ufxnx9d

@KemiBadenoch @renewal2030 My business was happily exporting books and other resources to the EU until your lot ruined our most important trading relationship. Now it's simply not worth the bother. Compared to the extra regulations and red tape imposed by the Tory Brexit, SMP is simple.

Contrary to what some have said, I clearly said the burden of regulation on businesses had gone too far… of course I believe in maternity pay! Watch the clip for the truth. Back to conference…

Thursday 11th July at 6 p.m. we're hosting this P4C.com Free Webinar on Philosophy-in-Role. Pirates, explorers, astronauts - there's always a way to bring philosophy to life by placing your students inside the story. tinyurl.com/philinrole

Philosophy Day at Westdene Children across the school enjoyed a fantastic Philosophy Day, with assemblies, workshops, debates, games & lessons! In KS1, children imagined what would happen if we were continually shrunk smaller and smaller, in 'The Incredible Shrinking Machine'.

What a fantastic World Philosophy Day! Once again over 2000 pupils from across the world, from UK, to Switzerland, to Cayman Islands, to South Africa, joined us for our annual live lesson. Though perhaps not so annual anymore...watch this space! #p4c #WorldPhilosophyDay2023

Key stage 2 and enjoying an online #p4c assembly with @makethinkingfun getting us all thinking on #WorldPhilosophyDay @SAPERE_P4C 🤔 💭