Summer 2011 - European Studies

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I European Studies Newsletter 2011 Summer Edition
Celebrating 25 years of the European studies programme
The ESP team hope you all have an enjoyable summer break and we look
forward to working with you again next year. Our thanks to all the teachers,
students and friends of ESP from the beginning of the Programme until now.
We look forward to seeing as many as possible of you at the spring planning
conferences in Northern Ireland in 2012. Look out for details on the website!
ESP teacher planning
conferences 2011
The 3 international teacher planning conferences in the Leuven Institute for
Ireland in Europe, Belgium and Grand Hotel, Mallahide, Ireland were well attended.
Congratulations to all the teacher and student presenters including:
Denis Grace, St Louis High School, Dublin, Ireland
Monica Trif, Colegiul Tehnic “Victor Ungureanu”, Romania
Ray Kirtley, University of Hull, Chair of UKGLAS
Dean Robinson, Down High School, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
Maria Piedade Carvalho da Silva and students Sílvia Amaro
& Joana Gonçalves from Escola Secundaria Frei Rosa Viterbo Portugal
Dr Gilles Reckinger, Freelance Social Anthropologist, Independent Documentary
Filmmaker and University Lecturer
in St.Gallen (Switzerland) and Graz (Austria)
Hazel Mullan, SELB
Francis Jacobs, Head of European Parliament in Ireland
Lone Kaplan, GoGlobal, Denmark
Michele McMackin, Victoria College, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Alun Morgan ESTYN HMI Wales & Jeanne Evans St Cenydd School, Wales
Students Sophia Chaffey and Catherine Warren from Wilson’s Hospital School,
Co Westmeath, Ireland
Brian Sandford, European Association of Teachers
Fionnuala Broughan, Leargas
Student & Teacher Exchange
I.I.S. “M.Gattapone”, Italy visited Strabane Grammar School, Northern Ireland.
ESP Christmas card competition
Information will be sent to you early in the
new term. Last year we had 1100 entries.
The winning design will be printed on the ESP
Christmas card for 2011.
Competitions
Wilsons Hospital, Westmeath students Sophia
Chaffey and Catherine Warren presented their
Euroscola experience at the junior conference
to over 130 delegates. Wilsons Hospital were
among the 6 winning schools of the ESP student
Euroscola competition. The students are
pictured with their teacher Rosemary Maxwell
Eager, European Studies Coordinator and Anne
McEvoy, European Parliament Office in Dublin
Students Sílvia Amaro & Joana Gonçalves from
Escola Secundaria Frei Rosa Viterbo Portugal
with their teacher Maria Piedade Carvalho
da Silva presented their work in the ESP
programme at the senior conference in Leuven,
Belgium
My vision for Europe competition
Congratulations to Colaiste Chiarain, Leixlip
and Methodist College Belfast on winning
a class Euroscola in the second year of this
digital media competition.
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Teaching about the EU can be a challenge
as it is seen by students as remote from
every day life, and politically controversial
so the Hansard Society and the Foreign
and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have
teamed up to help. EU Explained focuses
on how the EU operates in practice and the
influence it has on our lives and is full of
lesson plans and resources designed to help
you make this happen.
UK teachers order your copy of this
electronic resource at:
citizenship@hansard.lse.ac.uk
and include your name, position and school
address. The resource will be downloadable
and linked from ESP home page shortly.
Forthcoming News
Journey through Europe. This resource is being
updated for the autumn term. Information will be
sent to schools shortly. Check the ESP website for
most up to date information.
ESP Communication Platform
This can be accessed from the homepage of the
European Studies website. Increasingly, schools are
collaborating with partners on their core activities
work from their conference planning agreements
through the Platform.
ELOS
elos school
education stretching borders
This educational concept, which seeks to promote
the European and international dimension in
education continues with the current objective
being to link Elos standards and student
competences to national curricula. 33 ESP schools
have already received an Elos school plaque in
recognition of their work in embedding the Elos
concept in their schools. The Elos Management
Team had a very successful meeting in Armagh in
June 2011.
http://www.european-studies.org
Email: office@esp.dnet.co.uk
New ESP resources on home page of ESP website
The Irish Secondary level support service has produced a resource on Europe
for Business Studies students, which can be used by all schools teaching about
Europe.
ESP, in partnership with CCEA have completed an online European citizenship
resource, ‘EU4U?’.
The European Parliament in the UK has produced an interactive resource ‘Duty
Calls’ where students play the role of an MEP and are given one week to save
Europe from a pandemic.
Useful Websites
The Council of Europe
Teachers’ Corner
Here you will find documents and teaching material which you may print
and/or photocopy. Some of this material is available free of charge (can
be downloaded in PDF format) and you can obtain the others online (in
the form of books or PDF files).
http://book.coe.int/EN/index.php?PAGEID=162&lang=EN
Pestalozzi Programme
The PESTALOZZI Programme is the Council of Europe programme for the
professional development of teachers and education actors.
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/pestalozzi/default_en.asp
Education for Democratic Citizenship & Human Rights
Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights (EDC/HRE) is
a set of practices and activities for equipping young people and adults
to play an active part in democratic life and exercise their rights and
responsibilities in society.
A series of six manuals has been developed
to help teachers and school directors to
introduce citizenship and human rights in
schools at all levels of schooling in a fun
and interactive way (include image of books
only).
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/edc/3_RESOURCES/
Resources_for_teachers_en.asp
Any contributions for the next newsletter please send
to the: ESP Office, SELB,
3 Charlemont Place,
The Mall, Armagh, BT61 6AX
Northern Ireland.
Tel: 0044 28 3751 2247 Fax: 0044 28 3751 2285
Email office@esp.dnet.co.uk
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