Topic: Sport and Personal Health

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  Football players should give half their income to charity.
  
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  Sports stars found guilty of doping should be banned for life.
  

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  Chips should be banned from school cafeterias.
  

Sharing ideas, experiences, feelings. Furthering understanding of self and others. Articulating group issues.

Everyone sits in a circle either on chairs or on the floor. There is an item (such as a bean bag or ball) that is held by whoever is speaking.

The teacher sits on the same type of chair or cushion as everyone else. This helps to signal that what is happening is a special kind of classroom activity in which the teacher is a facilitator rather than a director. The teacher has a special responsibility to make sure that structured rules of the Circle Time are kept, that everyone's emotions are protected and that suitable activities are prepared. The teacher must also be ready to draw a session a close students are persistently breaking the rules.

The most important thing about the rules for circle time is that they should be discussed and agreed by all members. This is one of the first activities that should take place. Three basic rules which should be discussed are:

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  Only one person speak at once ‐ the talking object helps this rule
  

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  You can "pass" if you don’t want speak about something
  
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  No put downs
  

Philosophy for children aims to encourage children (or adults) to think critically, caringly, creatively and collaboratively. It helps teachers to build a 'community of enquiry' where participants create and enquire into their own questions, and 'learn how to learn' in the process.