Great visit Jo Richardson Community School Brilliant teaching to combat racism, prejudice & discrimination in society, thinking about the role of active citizens in communities. Thank you Year 10s really strong answers to questions about the role of power & voice for change. Thank you teachers!

Wonderful visit Harrow High School & see brilliant teaching around the role of the police & community policing & advocacy for rights. Brilliant mentoring & several UCL Alumni teaching. Really great to see exceptional learning. That's a wrap on school visits this year, thank you all!

Brilliant to have Mr Ruffles & The Archer Academy as a partnership school with us UCL Institute of Education Congratulations to the school & great staff and students!

The highlight of the week our Citizenship UCL Alumni from St Mark's Academy Mr Dawson-Hunt winning this ACT award! A fantastic mentor for our student teachers, a brilliant teacher at a superb school, a great colleague for other @uclalumni staff. Outstanding achievement!

Super well done to our UCL Institute of Education student teachers for reaching the end of their second placement today! Only a few weeks to go and they will be qualified #teachers! Thank you to mentors, schools, and pupils for enabling them to develop their rich specialist #citizenship skills

Visiting BFI is a profoundly engaging opportunity for teachers to consider using powerful short films in classrooms to connect film & film language with critical thinking. Dr Carol-Mei Barker explores this in Issue 58 Teaching Citizenship ACT teachingcitizenship.org.uk/resource/teach…📽️

Exceptional day of powerful resources for future teaching #humanrights #disastereducation #childrights & #GenAI Mr Smith Westminster Academy & with Solaris2 Media Leon Oldstrong on countering violence with #VirtualReality learn more here youtube.com/watch?v=yTdtsJ…, teachingcitizenship.org.uk/resource/teach…

Citizenship PGCE @ IOE Westminster Academy These two immersive VR films; Virtually There (knife crime) and Cleanskin (grooming & exploitation), aren’t easy to watch. But these future citizenship teachers engaged deeply and shared powerful reflections. #VRforEducation #CitizenshipEducation #KnifeCrime #CSE

For #ThankaTeacher day our Citizenship PGCE Subject Leader was asked to contribute to a lovely and meaningful celebration of #teachers IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society Thank you to all teachers & support staff far and wide and thank you to our soon to be new teachers as well! ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2025/…

On yesterday's #ThankATeacher day UCL Institute of Education Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) it was great seeing existing #teachers Students Organising for Sustainability🌍 Carshalton High School for Girls Norbury High School for Girls Nower Hill High School & a video from Michelle Codrington-Rogers help new teachers think about how to teach #climate #sustainability #education #Thankyou

Today our almost new #teachers presented as part of their assignments on how they had delivered effective #Citizenship education teaching in their classrooms. Incredible passion & transformative journeys, as they come to the end of the programme. So #proud of them & them!

Congratulations to 2024-25 cohort as they enter the teaching profession! A delight to welcome members of the 2025-2026 cohort & welcome back UCL Alumni to join us in active Citizenship, writing a letter to our PM & MP Keir Starmer thanking for supporting #Citizenshipeducation

New research shows that students who take GCSE Citizenship Studies have a much higher level of understanding of political issues than those who had not taken the course, boosting their confidence and readiness to participate in democracy. Read the report: ow.ly/v3ey50Wg4CF

"Citizenship education has never been more critical." Year 9 student, Ja'Mari on the importance of #CitizenshipEd in a world that is becoming ever more complicated for young people to navigate. Read the article here pp.28-29: ow.ly/t2OJ50Wl3Rh

Still not too late to submit poems for the National Peace Poetry Competition: Verses of Hope, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 3 categories primary, secondary and FE/College. Deadline 23rd July. ACT Facing History and Ourselves UK

ACT is pleased to have contributed to the #RoadmaptoVotesat16 report - a cross-sector vision of recommendations for the successful implementation of #Votesat16 across the UK. High-quality #CitizenshipEd is essential for young people's confident participation in democracy.

16- & 17-year-olds will vote in the next general election. Strengthened Citizenship education is essential to ensure young people are equipped with the knowledge & skills to participate in democracy confidently. Read our full statement 👇 #Votesat16

Great to see this review, and work on Disaster and Climate Risk Education to be thinking about for the curriculum!

What an impressive year we have had in developing incredible #teachers of Citizenship education & working towards improving #citizenshipeducation. Great to receive ACT journal to cap it off! Have a great summer #thankyou & see you soon! #Citizens #power #democracy

Write a cinquain poem on #PeaceEducation & win a signed copy of Post-Atomic Glossaries by Antony Owen. Need inspo? Check Issue 56 of Teaching Citizenship: ow.ly/lOUi50WyyU2 Send entries by 6 Aug 👉 [email protected] #PoetryForPeace #Competition