Your first Junior Ambassador Meeting
Activity guides
These activity guides can be printed off and shared with your EPAS team to help them plan events, share what they are doing, and complete your accreditation.
Do you have an activity guide you would like us to create, drop us an email: info@epas.org.uk
Lesson Plans
Further resources, ideas, and inspiration
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Celebrating Europe Day
Europe Day, held on 9 May every year, celebrates peace and unity in Europe. Right now, that is something we need to take stock of and think about what we can do to get back to a situation of ‘peace and unity’. You can use this occasion to celebrate what unites us as the peoples…
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Running an EU intro session for your school
One of our European Parliament Ambassador Schools, Channing School, asked me to help with a session that their Junior Ambassadors could run for their peers and younger students at their school. I wrote up the session that I had run for them last year. Other EPAS members may also find this useful. The aim of…
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Recruiting and training Junior Ambassadors
Junior Ambassadors are the engine of EPAS: they decide on activities, run them and share the evidence. As far as possible, Junior Ambassadors should decide the direction of your EPAS activities and run them. Recruiting Junior Ambassadors and explaining their role is the first step Senior Ambassadors should take. These resources should help you to…
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Gaining accreditation
The primary focus of EPAS is increasing young people’s leadership and democratic engagement; where this happens, the European Parliament accredits students, staff and institutions as European Parliament Ambassadors. In our final training for Senior Ambassadors, we looked at how the accreditation and assessment process works and heard from Channing School about how they gained accreditation…
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Getting help to run EPAS
All initiatives in schools/colleges need a champion, and the Senior Ambassador is that, but they shouldn’t be doing all the work. At it’s heart EPAS needs to be student-led. In our second Senior Ambassador training of the European Parliament Ambassador School (EPAS) programme we looked at the split in roles between Senior and Junior Ambassadors,…
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How to teach about the EU – CPD
In spite of – or in many cases because of – the UK leaving the EU, many students are eager to learn more about it. They understand that their lives will still be deeply affected by our closest neighbour and biggest trading partner. So can this be used as a vehicle to encourage more and…
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Setting up EPAS social media accounts
Quick posts on social media share ideas for participation, promote your work and help keep your team on track. We’ve said time and again that communication is at the heart of the European Parliament Ambassador Schools (EPAS) programme, but it does bear repeating! The goal of the scheme is to raise awareness amongst your school/college…
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Setting up a debate
There is very little to do with the European Parliament, the EU, and the UK’s relations with it that is cut and dried. There is room for discussion and debate on all of it. One of the roles of Junior Ambassadors in European Parliament Ambassador Schools is to engage their peers and wider community in…
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Creating an EPAS webpage on your website
You’re not much of an ambassador if you’re not telling people about what you’re doing, so letting your wider school/college community know that you are (or are working towards becoming) a European Parliament Ambassador School is essential for gaining accreditation. The first point of contact for your school/college is your website, so highlighting EPAS on…