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Dulwich Parkrun on 9th of May
To celebrate Europe Day on 9th May and Europe Week, Junior Ambassadors participated in the Dulwich Parkrun as a meaningful expression of European unity, solidarity, and cooperation. As part of the initiative, students completed a symbolic total of 12 kilometres, representing the 12 stars of the European Union flag — a symbol of harmony, unity,
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TEACHING ABOUT EUROPE
Junior Ambassadors from Instituto Español Vicente Cañada Blanch worked with younger students (year 7) to talk about Europe in Europe Day Celebration. They created badges and book marks, played games and ran a workshop. You can see all about it on their online Info Point website: https://sites.google.com/ievcblanch.com/epasievcb/epas/ambassadors-25-26/europe-day-26 EPAS Team Comment Fantastic! This looks like a
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Europe Day Video: “How Does the EU Benefit Me?”
As part of our Europe Day celebrations, EPAS students created a short video entitled “How Does the EU Benefit Me?”. The aim of the project was to raise awareness of the impact that the European Union has on the daily lives of young people and to highlight the opportunities available to them as European citizens.
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Europe Day Celebration
To celebrate Europe Day on 9 May, EPAS Junior Ambassadors organised a school-wide event to promote European values, cultural diversity and active citizenship. Students delivered an interactive presentation to their peers, explaining the importance of Europe Day and discussing opportunities available to young people through European programmes and initiatives. In addition, students created a short
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Europe Day Tutor Group Quiz
Students helped to create a quiz that was delivered across every tutor group in the school to celebrate Europe day. Links EPAS Team Comment A great way to mark Europe Day. Well done!
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Europe Day Celebrations at Prestwick Academy
Our Junior Ambassadors were working on their presentations since March in order to share with S1-3 classes their knowledge about Europe and EU. In Modern Languages pupils completed the Euro quiz which tested their general understanding of Europe’s geography, culture, languages and main political institutions. We also learned about EU and Democracy. We also looked
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Europe Day Awareness
We produced a quiz, a brief explanation of what Europe Day is, a video of staff and student saying hello in different European languages and a European menu for the following week. The newsletters reach many students and staff (3000) and their average reading time was 12 minutes, so this is a great way to
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Europe Day in the Curriculum at Oaklea Grange
As a school, we celebrated Europe Day by holding an assembly about it as a group and had open discussions about what it is, why we celebrate it and how the school is going to celebrate it. In lessons, we completed literacy/numeracy type activities that included populations from countries in europe, cars from european countries
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Priestley College Celebrates Europe Day 2026
Priestley College celebrated Europe Day with a whole host of activities: sharing food, quizzes, the InfoPoint and activities on their social media channels. Links EPAS Team Comment Great to see so much going on at Priestley to celebrate Europe Day.
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European Art
During an Art lesson, the pupil looked at famous European paintings and completed some research behind the history of their work, the artists and their influences. The pupil then chose 3 pieces to focus on which will then form inspiration for her next piece of art work, which will be inspired by Van Gogh’s bold
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Cooking European Dishes
Pupils helped cook 3 dishes for everyone to taste at the end of the day. These were tzatziki from Greece with side tortillas, German cabbage dishes and quesadillas from Mexico. we printed the flags for each of these countries and followed specific recipes. We discussed how these types of dishes are made and why specific
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Europe Day 2026
Wellington School celebrated Europe Day last week. As has become tradition, the chefs prepared European delights at lunchtime. This year, the Belgian waffles were a particular success! In the afternoon, one of our Junior Ambassadors took time out of study leave to lead a workshop for Primary 4 on European countries. They talked about flags,
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Diplomatic Visit to the Polish Embassy
As part of European Week, we also organised a diplomatic visit to the Polish Embassy, where students met with diplomats and learned more about the work of embassies and international relations. The visit offered a unique perspective on diplomacy in practice and allowed students to ask questions about political cooperation, representation abroad, and modern diplomatic
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Europe Day: Video on UK-EU relations
As part of the Europe Day 2026 celebrations, two junior ambassadors, Ben and Luke, produced a short documentary analysing the results from a survey on the perspectives of students on current UK-EU relations and the possible direction of travel. Watch their documentary on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZcgvQ0RLPi/ EPAS Team Comment Very well done, Ben and Luke. Really
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Europe Day Assemblies
In the week leading up to Europe Day our assemblies focused on Europe. In our secondary assemblies, we adapted the EPAS resources from a couple of years ago to focus on the importance of democracy, linking it to the shared values between the UK and the EU, and the local elections that were taking place
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Discussion tasks on Europe
As a school, we looked at idiomatic phrases from other European countries and how they linked to phrases that we use in the English language. Pupils tried saying some phrases in different languages such as Russian, Spanish and French. In addition, pupils were given fact cards to read about Europe which informed deeper discussion. Lastly,
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Debate Society Session on the European Union
During a special Debate Society session, students discussed the idea of a common European army and the future of European defence cooperation. The debate encouraged participants to analyse questions surrounding security, sovereignty, and the future direction of the European Union while developing their public speaking and critical thinking skills. EPAS Team Comment Very much a
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Europe Day: Cultural Fair
EPAS ambassadors at USP College (Palmers Campus) held a cultural fair promoting EU awareness, cultural exchange, and democratic engagement to celebrate Europe Day. They organised face painting, photo portraits, academic displays, and a Europe Day playlist. Links EPAS Team Comment A great way to celebrate Europe Day, showing off your Unity in Diversity!