Communication
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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 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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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 Celebrations: Tonguetwister challenge
Now an annual and highly popular breaktime event: we celebrate Europe Day with Tonguetwister Challenge in French, German and Spanish! EPAS Team Comment Great to see that activities like this are now a regular part of your school calendar!
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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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Participation in Europe Day
We were delighted to mark Europe Day on 9 May with an inspiring visit for 10 of our Modern Foreign Languages students. Students had the opportunity to attend a thought-provoking talk delivered by representatives from the European Parliament’s Liaison Office in the UK, gaining valuable insight into European institutions and international collaboration. A special mention
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Europe Day visit at Europe House
We are delighted to share that a group of European Parliament Ambassadors from North Cambridge Academy have participated in Europe Day celebrations on Tuesday, 5th May 2026 at Europe House in London. With many schools and colleges eager to attend, we are especially proud that NCA was selected to be part of this inspiring international
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Europe Day Assembly
EPAS Ambassadors created and delivered an informative PowerPoint presentation to a year group, showcasing Belfast Boys’ Model School and their EPAS journey. Through the presentation, they educated students about Europe, the European Union, and the opportunities provided through the EPAS programme, including activities such as Euroscola, student elections, and visits to political institutions.By designing and
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European Language Day
On Tuesday 5 May, the European Ambassadors set off for Smith Square in Westminster. On arrival, we were given a passport containing questions about the various European countries. We went from stand to stand, learnt interesting facts about the countries, sampled local specialities and took part in competitions and quizzes. The many souvenirs, new facts
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Info Point creation as part of Europe Day celebration
As part of an event to celebrate Europe Day, our Junior Ambassadors designed and created the first Info Point. This is the first of 3 information boards that they would like to create in different locations around the school. The first has a map of EU countries and highlights some of the activities that the
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Europe Day Celebrations
As part of our Europe Day celebrations, Ambassadors planned and organised activities including a Europe quiz, a treasure hunt and games to raise the profile of European cultures and languages. The event took place at lunchtime and around 60 students attended. EPAS Team Comment Really great to see your Ambassadors are planning and running such