World Philosophy Day 2019

Melbourne Museum Recap

On 21st November, 2019 VAPS partnered with Melbourne Museum to deliver a Middle Years PIPS event on World Philosophy Day. 80 students in Years 5 to 8 from different schools came together to collaborate philosophically. Students from different schools were grouped together collaborating within a Community of Inquiry about various speakers

Please see our Philosophy in Schools Events page for 2020 events, including how to register students or to participate as a facilitator.

Lloyd Street Primary School - Reflections

By Zoe

The Philosothon made me wonder what we can do and how we can help the environment moving forward. I was inspired by how everyone said we can make a difference and we can choose how we contribute to changing the earth’s warming. But it also got me thinking how change only works if everyone is involved and committed to doing the right thing. How can we change? Is it too late???

By Lauren

The philosothon was really inspiring and it was great talking to new people with new ideas. What I found really interesting was the speaker Wren. She was really interesting and her message was very powerful and related to children.  It left me wondering how I can change my behaviour to make future generations have less green house gases. My question is, whose responsibility is it to make sure things are set right?

By Hailey

The Philosothon was really exciting and it was an amazing learning experience. I was inspired by different actions people were doing to stop climate change. I was inspired by the people taking action. I wonder what I can do?

By Alexander

The Philosothon was very interesting and it was good to open up our minds and actually think about solutions that would benefit us all as well as solving problems. It was good to think about everyone else’s perspectives and their ideas. I was inspired by the guest speaker Isabelle and her traditional story about koalas. Everyone thinks they can just chill and sit back and let others people solve the problem but that story really put into perspective how serious climate change is. I really want koalas to survive beyond ten years. What I found really interesting was the talk about meat and how a lot of our greenhouse gases come from red meat. Scientists are trying to introduce lab. meat which is made from stem cells or chemicals. Also, Australia actually eats the most meat of any country in the world! It left me wondering that if we got told the time that the world has left to get too warm, would we still act quickly or would we wait until the last five years?