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IOE centre delivers programme to help teachers educate pupils about the Holocaust

17 October 2019

UCL Institute of Education’s (IOE) Centre for Holocaust Education is set to deliver its 2019-20 Beacon School residential programme this week (18 October).

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The programme, which supports teachers to educate young people about the Holocaust, begins with a visit to the Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. 

The course will include three days of intensive workshops, exploring key research informed pedagogy with talks from guest contributors, including Beacon School and Quality Mark alumni.

Professor Stuart Foster, Executive Director of the Centre for Holocaust Education, said: 

“I am very much looking forward to our intensive, thought-provoking, and hugely relevant Beacon School London Residential programme which begins this Friday. The programme spans four days in which Centre staff work in collaboration with 16 inspirational teachers from schools across the country. The aim of the weekend is to robustly support and equip teachers in their efforts to educate young people about the Holocaust and its contemporary significance.

“We live in turbulent times. Significant increases in hate speech, antisemitism, prejudice and intolerance compel all educators to consider ways to address these considerable challenges. It is always heartening to work with such dynamic and thoughtful teachers who are fully committed to improving young lives and the society in which they live. As ever, it promises to be an incredible and meaningful few days!”

The 2019-20 UCL Beacon School cohort are:

  • Beacon High, Islington;
  • Belle Bue Girls Academy, Bradford;
  • Birches Head Academy, Stoke on Trent;
  • Cardinal Newman Catholic School, Coventry;
  • Chesterfield High School, Sefton;
  • Falinge Park High School, Rochdale;
  • Hanham Woods Academy, South Gloucestershire;
  • Ian Ramsey Church of England Academy, Stockton on Tees;
  • Kepier Academy, Sunderland;
  • Lawrence House School, Knowsley;
  • Manchester Enterprise Academy, Manchester;
  • Mulberry School, Tower Hamlets;
  • Q3 Academy Tipton, Sandwell;
  • Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Kent;
  • Stowe School, Buckinghamshire;
  • Thurston Community College, Suffolk.

Every year, the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education look to recruit up to 20 secondary schools in England committed to enhancing teaching and learning about the Holocaust. UCL Beacon Schools in Holocaust Education will become dynamic hubs serving a network of local schools and will partner with the Centre to improve teaching standards, raise pupil achievement, and strengthen spiritual, moral, social and cultural development provision.

The Lead Teachers who complete the training from each Beacon School will have the opportunity to attend an expenses-paid residential programme in central London and an expenses-paid study visit to Warsaw. Their role is to develop a Scheme of Work specifically targeted to the needs of their pupils. The aim is for the schools’ senior management teams to work with the lead teacher to make Holocaust education a priority and advocate to other schools for better Holocaust education.

Since 2012 the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education’s programme has worked with 138 Beacon Schools directly impacting some 135,240 students through investing in their Lead Teacher to ensure research informed quality provision for and experience of Holocaust education. 

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