National Association for Primary Education

Written by Claire Banks and Mick Waters,  A Curious Curriculum: Teaching foundation subjects well  details the insightful and transformational steps that a school can take towards designing and delivering a rich, rigorous and wide-ranging curriculum.  Before becoming Director of Education for The Olympus Academy Trust, a cross-phase multi-academy trust in north Bristol, Claire Banks...

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 h...

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 Schill...

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 w...

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, fulfillin...

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 organisa...

The National Association for Primary Education are delighted to announce that Nancy Stewart will present our Christian Schiller Lecture 2022. 'Cherishing the growth of young children: what early years education can be'. Nancy Stewart is a consultant and writer with wide experience across early years sectors in schools, nurseries, local authority advisory service, and National Strategies where she...

The National Association for Primary Education works in many ways to provide help and support for those involved with schools. One of those ways has been to sponsor and support Education on Fire. Here are links to the 5 episodes mentioned in this show. https://www.educationonfire.com/education-on-fire/243-astro-pi-challenge-from-raspberry-pi-foundation/ https://www.educationonfire.com/education-on...

New Edurio research reveals half of children feel stressed and a quarter feel lonely. Edurio has published their latest research examining pupil wellbeing, support systems in school and how pupils feel about school. The study drew on responses from 45,000 children of which 15,000 were from primary. Children feel progressively less well as the move through primary school – 76% in year 1 feel well b...

‘MarvellousMe is a game-changer for parent engagement.’ MarvellousMe engages parents by telling them about their children’s learning and success. It enriches family conversations about school and makes it easy for parents to help their children’s education and say: ‘Well done!’ Delivering a positive teacher-parent partnership, MarvellousMe makes it easy for schools to implement the best practice p...

Here at the National Association for Primary Education are looking for educators to help us 'Pay It Forward'. We see hundreds of questions asked on social media every week. What if we could collate the answers, get your views and experiences in a way that could support thousands of others? If you are an educator and have ever asked a question and received a great answer - online or in person - we...

National Association for Primary Education presents: Special Educational Needs CPD Monday 6th December 2021 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM This online zoom event will cover 3 areas of Special Educational Needs to help you support your pupils: - English as an Additional Language (EAL) - How to identify children who may also have dyslexia or another SPLD - Common speech, language and communication needs Co-occur...

Primary Music CPD Monday 18th October 2021 17.30-18.30 Live via Zoom (+ recording) Full details and booking at nape.org.uk/primary-music We will cover: Top 10 resources, organisations, work schemes 3 starting points for composition When, what, how of listening to music Music Assemblies Music across the curriculum To keep up to date with all the events and download a FREE copy of our professional j...

Following the success of our online conference in March 2021 'Towards a balanced and broadly based curriculum' The National Association for Primary Education have planned 6 new online CPD events for the new academic year. 5 starting points for Primary Music Special Education Needs EdTech EYFS Mental Health/Wellbeing Climate & Ocean Plastic To keep up to date with all the events and download a...

Ellie Jackson is the bestselling children's author of the Wild Tribe Heroes series of true environmental books for primary children. Each book follows a well loved animal as it gets into trouble due to an environmental issue such as ocean plastic, deforestation or climate change. Free teaching resources and curriculum maps support the books for each key stage. Ellie is a teacher and mother of four...

Following the success of our conference on 6th March 2021 - Towards a Balanced and Broadly Based Curriculum - Dr. Tony Eaude has a follow up conversation with presenter Clare Whyles (Deputy Head) and Tina Farr (Headteacher) of St Ebb's C of E (Aided) Primary School. St Ebb's have been on a journey which has seen their curriculum transformed. We get to hear the ideas, aims, successes and struggles...

Described as having a breathtaking understanding of how to engage even the hardest to reach of children, Jonathan has established a reputation for delivering inspiring and creative inset both in the U.K. and internationally. He has worked for many years on the kind of compelling and inspirational teaching strategies that lead to incredible outcomes and is still in the thick of it as the deputy hea...

Leonor Stjepic, is an award-winning social enterprise entrepreneur, whose career has spanned both the private and NGO sectors. She is Chief Executive of the Montessori Group as well as Chair of the Board of Directors of Montessori Centre International. James Archer is the Centre Director of the International Montessori Institute. Prior to this he was the Course Director of the BA Primary Education...

Mark Taylor chats to NAPE patron Ian Gilbert. Since founding Independent Thinking in 1994, Ian has built a global reputation as an educational thinker, innovator, entrepreneur, speaker and award-winning editor and writer. He was listed by the IB magazine as one of their top 15 ‘educational visionaries’.  Never happier than when he is making children’s brains hurt, he has a unique first-hand p...

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 that schools must offer this (as...

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 expect this (at least from 7 years old); one base...

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 can be positively affected by our primary aged children. Teac...

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 assistant in a variety of schools. She decided to study as a mature student...

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 limits of representative literature in the primary classroom? Seraphina...

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 racial justice and equity have a place in our primary schools? NAPE are creatin...