Primary First Issue 6

Primary First is the journal of the National Association of Primary Education.

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Contents

Editorial

John Coe makes a plea for the distinctiveness of primary schools.

One of the pioneering heads of the fifties sets out her values.

A poem by John Dixon.

Sailing Close to the Wind

A description of a thematic approach.

It makes you think though. Doesn't it?

By Conor

Chocolate Bunnies

Cross-curricular work described by Helen Rosewarne.

A quiet revolution

Described by Neil Hawkes.

The Value of Values

Values in action at Ledbury Primary School.

What's really wrong with "teaching to the text"

Andrew Davis takes a philosophical view.

Schiller on assessment

Reviews

• First Hand Experience- What Matters to Children and Learning- What Matters to Children. Reviewed by Jane Loder
• Children and Spirituality: Searching for Meaning and Correctedness. Reviewed by Tony Eaude

All our futures

Bill Tindall reflects.

Firing Children's Clay Work

Building and using a sawdust kiln by Basil Benson

Education: a means to amend

Anti-social behaviour is examined by George Varnava

Gillian Johnson identifies a gap in Early Years Literacy.

L. Christian Schiller........ 50 years on

Roy Vass looks back at his time with Schiller

Last Words by Colin Richards