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The British Red Cross, in partnership with Allen & Overy LLP, have created a new education programme and teaching resource called Justice and Fairness.
The programme includes teacher conferences, taster sessions, school speaker programmes, an annual competition and youth volunteering projects.
The activities aim to help teachers and students explore issues of fairness and justice through the [...]

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Being quite a big fan of the wonderful Jarvis Cocker I don’t quite know how I missed this…thankfully a colleague pointed it out to me and I just finished listening to Jarvis interviewing Jamie Kelsey Fry, Association of Citizenship Teaching (ACT) Council member, for his show on Radio 6. In the interview Jamie [...]

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The Parliament Education Service is offering free teacher training workshops around the UK, from September. These will cover how Parliament works and provide tips on how schools can get involved in the 2011 Schools Question Time Challenge
The CPD sessions are open to any teacher who would like to broaden their general knowledge about Parliament, and [...]

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I was immediately intrigued by an email titled ‘The Big Lunch’ that landed in my inbox last week. The Big Lunch is an Eden Project initiative which aims to build and strengthen communities by encouraging people to have lunch with their neighbours.
The project brings communities together in a fun, simple and food-based way (which is, [...]

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Channel 4 Education has a range of game and video resources aimed at young people (age 10 - 19). These can be used in the classroom and cover several curriculum subjects (some are adaptable for citizenship lessons).
I particularly liked Battlefront a range of campaign videos that tackle subjects such as diversity, democracy and justice. And [...]

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