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the meeting place for values and learning

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The ViTaL Hub is a meeting place for all who are interested in putting Values in Teaching and Learning. Powerful methods, facts, insights – the ViTaL Hub is the place to start.

teachers learning together at Parkview School, Cumbria

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THE LEARNING AGENTS!
Learning that flows across subjects so they all link together

What part do the language, concepts, principles, assessment and practice of learning power play in a large English secondary school in which the Key Stage 3 curriculum has been radically re-fashioned to shift the learner's role from that of 'receptor' to that of active 'agent'? What happens when the emphasis on knowledge, skills and understanding is counter-balanced with a primary focus on the process of learning itself? Read more...

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go to the ViTaL Hub Learning Centre

Go! Looking to develop a strategy for values education in your class or school? Want to increase the learning power of your students? The Learning Centre is tried and tested. Organised around the acclaimed seven steps model, your journey starts with the first step.

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Read more about this book in our Recent Publications section.

FEEL YOU'VE LOST YOUR CREATIVE SPARK? Work overcrowded by an external agenda? Welcome an opportunity to revitalise your professional purpose?

The COURAGE TO BE... weekends for professionals in public service to suspend the accountability agenda in order to renew identity, integrity, core values and ethical courage.

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lesson plans incorporating values teaching

Incorporate values into your teaching. Written by teachers in Bristol, covering seven subjects, from Year 7 to Year 10 - ready for download now!

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The key to embedding a 'values' approach to education lies with leadership. Read more...

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VITAL SPARK newsletter

New on ViTaL Hub - the first edition of 'ViTaL Spark', official newsletter of ViTaL Partnerships. Download it here to find out, among other things, who the new trustee directors of ViTaL are. Don't miss the incredible story of how ELLI ideas and the 'language of learning' have been the catalyst for a Bristol school to develop as a community of learning, inspiring parents to start leading the way!

Read or download August newsletter here... (pdf, 6 pages, 970Kb)