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Holocaust Education Trust – joint session with History PGCE 18.1.19
Cat from the Holocaust Education Trust delivered a fantastic session for the RE and History PGCE groups. In addition to covering the events of the Holocaust, trainees explored the significance of the term, the non-Jewish victims and Jewish resistance. She was also able to provide trainees with some fantastic resources to use in their teaching…
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A full day teaching
As part of their Creative Medium Term Planning Module Year 2 Undergraduates work in groups to plan a small Scheme of Work. We then go into a local school and deliver the scheme – in one day – to year 8 pupils. One of the undergraduates, Joe, reflected on the day. First I would like…
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Year 2 Visit the National Holocaust Centre
Just prior to the Christmas Holidays, the Second Year, RE undergraduates visited the National Holocaust Centre near Newark on Trent in Nottinghamshire. This was a first visit for Edge Hill University but proved to be well worth the journey. Our visit began with an introductory talk and a tour of the ground floor which was…
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Holocaust Remembered
Dr Mayer Hersch MBE paid his annual visit to Edge Hill University to tell gathered RE and History ITE students together with pupils from a number of parternship schools the story of his survival during the darkest days of the Nazi regime. Mayer was only 13 when the Nazis invaded his homeland Poland and his…
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Year two attend Holocaust Conference at the Imperial War Museum of the North
For the last three years the second year KS 2-3 RE Trainees have attended the Autumn Holocaust Conference at the Imperial War Museum of the North. The Conference is organised jointly between the Museum and the Centre for Jewish Studies at Manchester University. As part of their Judaism studies the conference give a unique and…
