Jenny Carson, from our partners,  the Holocaust Education Trust, attended our awards ceremony at the Scottish Parliament yesterday. Jenny was kind enough to offer some twilight professional learning for interested teachers in advance of Thursday’s awards. Some 20 teachers from schools in and around the Glasgow area attended a workshop hosted by St Roch’s Secondary – a Vision School.

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Jenny led a workshop outlining, among many other things, the importance of discussing terms and definitions when teaching Holocaust Education to children and young people. She highlighted some of the opportunities available to staff to deepen their own knowledge of HE through the acclaimed Lessons from Auschwitz programme, and we all participated in negotiating ethical dilemmas and choices in different situations when  perpetrators; bystanders; resisters or accomplices were, or might be involved. 

 

It was an excellent session, and we are very grateful to Patrick McShane (Modern Studies teacher) and Stephen Stone (HT) for kindly hosting the event for us. It was a lovely prelude to the awards ceremony, and useful staff development for everyone involved.

 

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We thought Patrick’s corridor display was spectacular!