Torpoint Community College is a small, semi-rural secondary school in South East Cornwall. As a UCL Quality Mark Beacon School for Holocaust Education, it consistently seeks out new ways in which the College community can work together to support and strengthen the priorities of the whole college and to ‘inspire optimistic learners’. The academic year […]
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UCL Centre for Holocaust Education wishes Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich a very happy birthday. She is 90 today (24 Sep) . As you can see from the photo here– taken just a few months ago – she looks only a little over half her actual age. She has grace, poise and such a gentle smile […]
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Congratulations to our friends at Core Academy Trust for winning the Pearson’s Silver Teaching Award for Impact through Partnership. It is testament to the Trust’s outstanding commitment to changing the lives of young people through its work. UCL works closely with The Trust on Echo Eternal – one of the most creative commemorative engagement projects […]
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Dear Friends, It’s been a summer like no other! Did anyone actually managed to get a break? Unlikely, if you are a teacher, especially if a senior leader or exams officer or with data responsibilities. For too many, last summer term just simply did not end. The logistical measures to prepare for the return to […]
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75 years ago today (14 August) 300 young people arrived at the Calgarth estate near Windermere. These young people were some of the very few children from across Europe to have survived the Holocaust. Without exception each had endured unimaginable trauma and difficulties and most would find very few survivors from their wider families. This […]
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Published by TES on 25th July The uncertainty of Covid-19 and the rise of the far right mean Holocaust education is important today, says Andy Pearce History matters. If recent events have served to underline this truism, they have also shown that history matters are rarely – if ever – straightforward or consensual. Nor are the matters […]
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UCL Centre for Holocaust Education will join the campaign this week against Twitter due to its consistent failure to robustly challenge and remove antisemitic threats and abuse on its platform.
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It is nearly the end of the academic year, thank goodness. The energy tank is on empty and we are all ready for a break – whatever that looks like in the current crisis. For most teachers this will most probably include a fair chunk of time preparing timetables, study units and logistical arrangements, ready […]
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Today we are launching a truly fantastic new CPD, Understanding the Holocaust at Key Stage 3: Teaching with a research-informed Textbook. The course will explore an innovation in textbook development that the team here at the Centre has created. For the first time it brings together the very latest in research about young people’s understanding […]
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If there are any lessons in the school year that I am determined to get ‘right’ it is those on the Holocaust. However, after just one lesson on the topic this year, lockdown came and our learning was forced online to the Microsoft Teams platform. Teaching about the Holocaust remotely was a challenge, which involved […]
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@UCL_Holocaust: RT: This term some #BeaconSchool2021 colleagues are completing our short #onlineCPD '6 things your students should know… https://t.co/3dhKOezGyG
@UCL_Holocaust: RT: Fantastic news that our friends @Holocaust_Hud are able to reopen tomorrow... do book online, visit & support them… https://t.co/MT587Nhy8U
@UCL_Holocaust: RT: By 1930 there were 24 football clubs in the city of Warsaw. Our self-directed study materials allow students to ask… https://t.co/i0aY5StKcq