Why are we selling the same resources for 84% off of the normal price?
We've sold many copies of the Philosophy Circles Primary Curriculum Pack to schools for £298 including VAT. With 10 copies of each minibook and installation on a whole school network, it's great value. Thousands of busy teachers have used it to save time and run exciting sessions.
But perhaps even harder-pressed than teacher time are school budgets. Some schools just don't have the money, but there are still individual teachers who are passionate about P4C and would like to save on the time it takes to plan quality sessions.
So while we think schools should be better funded, and are a bit squeamish about inviting teachers to spend their own money, we have decided to open up the pack to individual teachers at the reduced rate of £48. You only need one copy of each minibook, but still get the full 100 Spot and Stripe videos and 160+ session plans. So that we don't get bogged down in admin, we ask you to pay by card or paypal straight away rather than by cheque.
The deal is that this is just for your personal use, not for distribution to colleagues. If your school takes an interest and decides to buy the pack at the normal school price, let us know and we will refund your personal purchase!
Personal Pack Price £48
Normal Price £298.80
“The biggest challenge is time”
We asked teachers what stopped their schools embracing P4C. These three problems came up over and over:
- “The biggest challenge is time - how do we fit it in around other pressures we are under?”
- “Some staff don’t understand P4C, and so their confidence is low”
- “I get worried that the discussion will dry out”
Any of these sound familiar? If so, the Personal Use Philosophy Circles Primary Curriculum Pack is a must-have.
So what's included?
The pack includes 160 no-prep session plans, some for every subject in the curriculum. For those who can have stand-alone sessions, we’ve included a sequence of ten recommended session plans for each year group from reception to Year 6.
In addition, 100 “Spot and Stripe” videos provoke instant discussion. These 100 ‘shorts’ are divided by age group from Reception to Year 6. They provide a perfect introduction to philosophy for younger and older children alike, modelling discussion and argument through colourful, fun characters and irresistible questions.
“Some staff don’t understand P4C, and so their confidence is low”
Your personal primary curriculum pack comes with one copy of Philosophy Circles and one of Thinkers' Games. Thousands of hours of doing philosophy with children and teachers is distilled into the 48 readable, A6 pages of Philosophy Circles. Small enough to fit into your pocket (“I've been carrying it around for months!” said one teacher), the book is built around three memorable principles that create engagement, challenge and independent thinking. It helps teachers stay true to the “why” of doing philosophy as well as giving do-able options for the “what”.
Thinkers' Games contains 38 adaptable games to help children throw themselves into the joyful argy-bargy of the argument. 38 different ways to drive engagement and make thinking fun!
“I get worried that the discussion will dry out."
Our brand-new Discussion Dashboard is perfect for boosting teacher confidence in the face of the unknown. Designed for use during an enquiry, it places the distilled experience of years of facilitation in the hands of teachers new to P4C.
Want to convince SLT to buy the full-price, whole-school pack? This has ten copies of each book, and the resources can be installed on your school network. Best to send them to: stg-thephilosophymancom-staging.kinsta.cloud/primary-pack or if they need something on paper, download a PDF flier below.
Personal Pack Price £48
Normal Price £298.80