On 17 February 24 students from Devonport High School for Girls, Hele’s School, Plymstock School, Devonport High School for Boys, Coombe Dean, Torquay Boys’ Grammar and Notre Dame took part in Euroscola in Strasbourg.
Participation was achieved by competitive entry in a round of interviews in French last term discussing a number of European issues, followed [...]
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24 Sixth Form students from schools in the South West visit the European Parliament in Strasbourg
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Students from Sheffield Community Academy take part in a special Euroscola day
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012On the 13th and 14th November 2011, Students from Shelfield community academy, from the West Midlands participated in a special version of the EuroScola programme called EuroMedScola which consisted of countries from the African union in addition to the 27 member states of the EU. This was an exciting programme especially given the circumstances in the Middle [...]
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It’s all French to City School’s winning Youth Can Achieve students at the European Parliament!
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011On 10 June students from City School, Sheffield took part in the Euroscola event in Strasbourg. They were the winners of a debate entitled “Talking about Europe” which involved six Sheffield schools. City School students were very appreciative of the opportunity afforded to them and they rose to the challenge of conversing in French and mixing with their counterparts [...]
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Students from Devonport High School for Girls take part in Euroscola
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011This was the sixth visit to the European Parliament by a group of French language students from a number of schools in the South West, organised by Devonport High School for Girls. Sixth formers win a place on the visit through a speaking competition where they have to discuss a European issue in French which [...]
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Upper Shirley High School organise Crisis Point Day
Friday, February 11th, 2011Upper Shirley High School in Southampton used one of their Creative Learning Days to give their Year 8 students a chance to work through Crisis Point at the end of January. Grant Partson, Head of Humanities, said “the students found the role-play game most enjoyable”. “Pupils now have greater understanding of the EU and how laws are [...]
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Farnborough students debate at the European Parliament
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011Second year Politics students became Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for the day at the European Parliament in Strasbourg where they represented the United Kingdom and debated key European issues alongside sixth formers from across the 27 EU member states. Students worked in multilingual working groups to devise common strategies to tackle a range [...]
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The Gilberd school in Colchester has the answer to an XDR-TB outbreak!
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010On Tuesday, 13 July 130 students from Year 9 spent an entire day working through Crisis Point. Prepared for the day by teacher Wendy Hildreth, the students worked in five different classroms assisted by other teachers and students from Colchester 6th Form. With much good humour and guidance from teachers they undertook the task of [...]
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Rawlett Community Sports College students trial Crisis Point
Monday, June 21st, 2010“We trialled the materials with Y10 group in March and it worked really well. Having been looking for decent resources to use on Europe for years, this is certainly the best we have used. It went so well we are introducing it to our Y8 students in citizenship next year. The kids were very engaged [...]
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EUROSCOLA – A youth Parliament day in Strasbourg
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010A group of Sixth Form students from the South West took part in a Euroscola Day at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 12 March.
This is the fifth year that a group of Sixth Form students from the South West have competed for a place on a visit to the Euroscola Day at the European [...] -
Award Winning Free Citizenship Resource For Schools!
Monday, March 29th, 2010Crisis Point won the European Information Association’s prestigious “Award for Excellence in EU information provision” for 2010 at an award ceremony which took place at the British Library on 22 March 2010.
Crisis Point is a fantastic new (and free!) resource to help teach citizenship in schools for years 7 – 12. It works as a collapsed [...]
