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Europe Quiz
Year 12 students from The Cherwell School signed up to the event independently before being put into set teams of six (with students they did not already know) for a Europe Quiz. The challenge was to ‘earn their stars’, with a series of Europe-themed quiz rounds earning a different number of stars which they glued…
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Cherwell at Euroscola 2023
20 students and 2 teachers attended the Euroscola conference on 24 November 2023 on the theme of cyber security (innovation lab) and EU democracy and elections (final simulation exercise and debate). As part of the event, students completed a project booklet and task, including a challenge to connect with students from all 26 countries, to…
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Ideas from new Senior Ambassadors
At our Senior Ambassador training last week, we asked our participants for their ideas on activities that meet the Ambassador Schools criteria. They came up with some fantastic ideas, so we want to share them with you! Democracy Leadership Info Point Cultural Europe Day Teamwork Communication
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Virtual workshop with DG Translation and Interpretation
All of our Year 13 language students in French, Spanish and German took part in a virtual workshop with DG-Translation in which we learned about the importance of languages in a multi-lingual democracy and the role of interpreters and translators. We were able to translate some documents ourselves, which gave a fascinating insight into the…
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Former MEP awards Ambassadors in Devon
Caroline Voaden, former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South West England and Gibraltar constituency, visited Queen Elizabeth School in Crediton, Devon, to award a plaque and certificates to the school and its Ambassadors for successfully completing their first year as a European Parliament Ambassador School. Junior Ambassadors from the school explained why…
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Ambassador Schools accreditation in the North West
Loreto High School, which has been an Ambassador School for three years, hosted the European Parliament Ambassador Schools accreditation event for schools and colleges in the North West of England. The event featured moving speeches from former MEP, Julie Ward, and the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Councillor Yasmine Dar. Both spoke of how they got…
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What does it mean to be an Ambassador School?
Devonport High School for Girls have been with us since the start of the European Parliament Ambassador Schools programme in the UK. This great post on their website explains a lot of what they have done as part of the programme, and what their students have got out of it. https://www.dhsg.co.uk/news/?pid=3&nid=1&storyid=1451
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Senior Ambassadors CPD 2023
Join us to kick-off your new year as an Ambassador School. This CPD will provide your Senior Ambassadors (teachers) with the tools, inspiration, and contacts to make your journey to accreditation successful. At this CPD you will hear from Senior Ambassadors who have successfully gained accreditation, policy experts from the European Parliament and External Action,…
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Ambassador Schools Alumni Network
As we approach the end of the school year, a number of our Junior Ambassadors will be leaving their schools and colleges. We are eager to keep their experience and enthusiasm and pass it on to the next cohort of Junior Ambassadors; also there are still loads of opportunities for them with the European Parliament…
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Europe Day across all school subjects
The Junior Ambassadors from Queen Elizabeth’s School, Crediton, have put together this excellent presentation to help celebrate Europe Day in their school. It highlights how each subject has a link to Europe and offers a discussion question for teachers and students to use in their classes on Europe Day. You might want to adapt it…
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#EPASTogether – Cyprus 2023
Three of our Ambassador Schools had the amazing opportunity to participate in our first transnational event, travelling to Cyprus to meet other Junior and Senior Ambassadors from Malta, Ireland, and Cyprus. In just a few days they managed to pack in a huge amount. Here’s some of what they got up to: And what they…
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Careers in the European Parliament
A number of Ambassador Schools have asked about how students might find out about careers and traineeships at the European Parliament, the European Commission, and other EU institutions. Here are the key links you will need: Some of these roles are only open to EU citizens, so if you only have UK citizenship, they may…
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EPAS activities from January
A selection of some of the things European Parliament Ambassador Schools in the UK got up to last month.
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“Staying connected to Europe is important to our students”
Nicola Knowles, our Senior Ambassador from Loreto High School in Chorlton, was featured in Education Today‘s January magazine as their ‘View form the Classroom’ . She spoke brilliantly about what EPAS is and why it is of value to her students, and her as a teacher. For some reason they illustrated the article with a…
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Ideas for events
These are the ideas for events to meet the EPAS criteria that came from our kick-off event last week. Europe Day Democratic Cultural Communication Leadership Info Point
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Submitting evidence for EPAS
Submitting evidence for EPAS should be very straightforward: This post describes how to do the last bit of that. You can watch this short video for a walkthrough of the whole process. How to submit evidence In most cases you just send a link to where you have already publicised the work, so a link…
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Oxford’s Cherwell School recognised with honorary plaque by the European Parliament Ambassador School Programme
On Thursday, representatives of the European Parliament Liaison Office in the UK and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Catherine Bearder visited Cherwell School in Oxford to award pupils and teachers for completing the Europe-wide EPAS educational programme, which includes developing partnerships with other schools across the continent. Thursday, 13th of October 2022: The EU…
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Join Euroscola online
The Euroscola programme brings together students from all over Europe for a hands-on experience of European parliamentary democracy. Did you know that you can take part in Euroscola online? This allows far more students to participate, and without the huge administrative burden of organising on overseas trip! The next dates for Euroscola are: 15/11/2022 25/11/2022…