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Christmas around Europe and beyond celebration
Our Ambassadors and Sixth Form Languages students planned and ran an exciting Christmas event, preparing fun games and activities to celebrate 12 different languages and cultures. Visitors to the event were given bingo cards and had to tick off at least 5 activities in different languages to unlock access to delicious food from around Europe
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Christmas across Europe
One of our Junior Ambassadors has produced a slide show about Christmas across Europe to show on our digital boards in December. EPAS Team Comment Fantastic, a great creative way to share European traditions!
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Meeting of the ambassadors
The meeting organised by our president in order to discuss and finalise roles, timelines and accreditation our ambassadors held a scheduled meeting after school in the Master’s Boardroom. We intend to do this on a fortnightly basis to keep on top of changes and maintain regular communication. Our president also introduction the EPAS scheme to
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International Human Rights Day
Oldham Sixth Form College EPAS Junior Ambassadors arranged an awareness event around International Human Rights Day. They constructed a quiz, invited a speaker from The University of Manchester to address students on civil society and promoted the values of the day through the production of a newsletter. EPAS Team Comment Really good to see students
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Annual Cultural Appreciation Day
Carmel College was alive with colour, rhythm, and unity today as students and staff came together for the annual Cultural Appreciation Day; a vibrant celebration honouring the rich diversity that shapes the college community. The campus transformed into a lively showcase of music, movement, and tradition. Students arrived in beautiful traditional dress, and the day
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Showing a Film in French
The EPAS Junior Ambassadors chose to show Une Vie de Chat in French to help to educate younger students about European cultures. EPAS Team Comment Great stuff! We hope they enjoyed it? Was it targeted as those studying French, or was everyone able to come?
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Priestley participate in Euroscola online
The Senior Ambassadors organised an online EUROSCOLA event on the 4th December 2025 where students at Priestley College from the French, German and Politics department took part. One student in particular was very brave and joined online by asking a question to Dimitra LIVERI, Head of Resilience of Critical Sectors Unit, European Union Agency for
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Annual ‘Inter-faithing’ Event
Today, we were delighted to welcome a diverse group of faith leaders to college for our annual ‘Inter-faithing’ Event. The day offered an inspiring opportunity for students and staff to engage with different religious and non-religious perspectives, fostering understanding and connection across communities. The event began with an engaging question and answer session, where our
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ECO week Innovative Art Exhibition
The main idea of the ECO Innovative Art Exhibition was to bring focus on the changing climate and show the problem of the World Pollution. Both UK and EU have been doing so much in order to fight with Climate changes, but very often we are the one who should take the first steps, starting
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INFO POINT
Junior Ambassadors created PowerPoints for the digital Info Points. These we visible to all students in the dining hall and covered importance of voting and learning EU languages. EPAS Team Comment Great to get students making these. They are excellent!
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Magical Christmas
On the first Sunday in Advent, our Primary 7 pupils and S6 mentors set off for our partner school in Dortmund, Germany, to learn about Christmas traditions, German culture and to make new friends. The programme was very busy! On Monday, after icebreakers and a tour of the school, the children visited the BVB grounds
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Trip to European Parliament in Strasbourg
The Euroscola group headed to the European Parliament where they took part in debates with young people from across Europe. This helps to inform the EU on the views of young people around AI, Disinformation and possible solutions. Our students also learned about the work of MEPs and were inspired by action on protecting Human
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Movember Staff Charity Match
Junior Ambassadors organised a charity match in support of Movember, which brought over 30 staff members on the pitch in order to raise an attention about the crucial issue which is a cancer. This trend of raising awareness about the cancers is important for both, UK and EU therefore our students and teachers decided to
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Shared Cross Community Education Event
A Shared Education GAA event promoted teamwork, inclusion, and cooperation between students from different backgrounds through participation in traditional Irish sports. The event encouraged mutual respect, cultural understanding, and awareness of shared values linked to the work of the European Parliament. It also helped develop communication, leadership, and collaboration skills while strengthening community relationships and
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Carmel Student Represents St Helens Youth Council in House of Commons Debates
Last week marked an inspiring milestone for one of our students, Anja Gocesvska, who travelled to London to represent the St Helens Youth Council at the House of Commons. Taking her place in one of the most significant political chambers in the country, Anja joined young representatives from across the UK to engage in a
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Our President participated in the European Educational and Skills Summit 2025
The summit was a chance for me to share my thoughts about youth participation in the EU. At the summit numerous representatives of the educational bodies, European leaders and business representatives were present. On the summit we agreed that we will create a scheme for young students in secondary schools which allows them to have
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EPAS Cultural Event/ Cross National Event
Students took part in a cross-national EPAS event, collaborating with peers from schools across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. As part of the programme, pupils worked in teams to create and deliver a PowerPoint presentation about their school to an audience of over 60 students, EPAS representatives, and local politicians, developing confidence in
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2025-26 European Parliament Ambassador Schools Kick-off Event
All Senior Ambassadors of European Parliament Ambassador Schools in the UK are invited to our online training on Tuesday, 25th November 2025. This training has now taken place, the course materials and links are below. You will meet our new Head of Office at the European Parliament Liaison Office in the United Kingdom (EPLO UK),
