A great team to work with!

@uclholocaust.bsky.social @coreysoper.bsky.social

The Centre's Beacon School Programme will feature a free learning trip to Berlin, funded by friends at The AJR, to explore the history of the city’s Jewish community & issues of collaboration and perpetration.

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The Beacon School Programme empowers schools to become dynamic hubs and local leaders in teaching & learning about the Holocaust through sustained, research-informed professional development. #Education #CPD

📢The Centre is thrilled to announce that applications for our flagship #BeaconSchool Programme 2026-27 are now OPEN!
Become a leader in #HolocaustEducation.
Find out more & apply here:
holocausteducation.org.uk/transform-yo...

#Education #CPD

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This Easter Sunday, from all of us at @uclholocaust.bsky.social, we send warmth, reflection & hope.
Wishing all who celebrate a peaceful & meaningful day.

As Passover begins tonight, from our @uclholocaust.bsky.social family to yours, our survivor friends, Jewish teachers, colleagues, neighbours & partner organisations, Chag Pesach Sameach.

Come and work with us @ioe.bsky.social - the World's Number 1 Education Faculty in the QSS world education rankings for the 13th year in a row this year - in our world leading Centre for Holocaust Education? @uclholocaust.bsky.social

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Our spring newsletter has landed, featuring
mailchi.mp/ucl/ucl-cent... our newest Dialogues session on 'The Lost Music of Auschwitz' with Dr Leo Geyer, a look ahead to the upcoming Beacon School application window, employment & research opportunities within the Centre.

You will explore some of the Centre’s resources so that upon completion of the course you will have considered ways in which you may approach this important topic in the classroom.

This new course is for all teachers who will be teaching about the Holocaust in a secondary school context. Drawing upon the Centre's empirical research & the latest scholarship the course provides a clear rationale for the importance of teaching about Jewish life across Europe.

📣'Who were the six million? Exploring Jewish life before the Holocaust', our latest self guided online CPD course is now available.

Find out more and access the course: holocausteducation.org.uk/who-were-the...

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I am conducting research into how autistic pupils experience Holocaust education as part of my doctoral research. If you're a secondary history teacher of autistic and non-autistic pupils, I'd appreciate it if you took the time to complete the following survey:
qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Thanks to the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education (@uclholocaust.bsky.social) for inviting us to speak about the Lost Music of Auschwitz project!

For any KS3 music or history teachers, we've just published our free Holocaust Education Packs—more details here:
www.constella.org.uk/get-involved

Applications are open for our online ‘Holocaust in the Curriculum’ MA module which has been recognised by
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social

Places for teachers in England fully-funded by the Pears Foundation.
Deadline 27 Feb.
Info, FAQs & application at holocausteducation.org.uk/masters-modu...

Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨

#UCL200 #LoveUCL

Our Beacon School community marked Holocaust Memorial Day with purpose, integrity & innovation, seeking to both commemorate & educate, resulting in thoughtful, creative & deeply human responses to 2026 ‘Bridging Generations’ theme.

Visit HMD Gallery page: holocausteducation.org.uk/2026/02/03/s...

Applications are open for our online ‘Holocaust in the Curriculum’ MA module which has been recognised by
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social

Places for teachers in England fully-funded by the Pears Foundation.
Deadline 27 Feb.
Info, FAQs & application at holocausteducation.org.uk/masters-modu...

More examples of how HMD was marked across our Beacon Schools & alumni community...

#HtFMeUs student leaders, sharing their learning about Morris Malenicky with peers at The Lakes School
#LighttheDarkness at Highfields School
Assemblies & more at Adwick Outwood

Front page of Royal Historical Society blog post with image of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, photograph by Rudolph Simon, 2013, Wilkimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Text reads: "On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory' and abstract: In this post, Andy Pearce – Director of the Centre for Holocaust Education at UCL – considers the current levels of knowledge of the Holocaust among UK secondary school students. UCL studies, in 2016 and 2026, reveal a troubling and enduring divergence between popular understandings of the persecution and murder of Jews in Europe, in the 1930s and 1940s, and the findings of scholarly historical research. 27 January 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain. As Andy argues, prevalent and popular misperceptions risk being sustained if the Holocaust becomes a subject for remembrance and memory, rather than of history and historical scholarship. It is only though ‘more history’, shared widely and publicly, that we may seek to redress error, distortion and denial."

Also this week: "On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory" bit.ly/4t6wPx6

Dr Andy Pearce, Director of @uclholocaust.bsky.social, on the Society's blog. Andy's article introduces new work on Holocaust knowledge among UK secondary school pupils #Skystorians

'The Centre are proud to be collaborators & partners’ in RWBAs innovative & immersive enrichment project #HtFMeUs feat. Robert Rinder & families
holocausteducation.org.uk/htfmeus-an-i...
Teachers, join next online briefing, 2 Feb, 3.30pm to find out more.
nwetherall@rwba.ascendlearningtrust.org.uk

We are pleased to announce the second digest publication from our latest @uclholocaust.bsky.social research

It can be downloaded for free from: holocausteducation.org.uk/research/80-years/

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Applications are open for our online ‘Holocaust in the Curriculum’ MA module which has been recognised by
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social

Places for teachers in England fully-funded by the Pears Foundation.
Deadline 27 Feb.
Info, FAQs & application at holocausteducation.org.uk/masters-modu...

'The Centre are proud to be collaborators & partners’ in RWBAs innovative & immersive enrichment project #HtFMeUs feat. Robert Rinder & families
holocausteducation.org.uk/htfmeus-an-i...
Teachers, join next online briefing, 2 Feb, 3.30pm to find out more.
nwetherall@rwba.ascendlearningtrust.org.uk

At St Laurence School, students involved in #HtFMeUs devised a tutor activity & briefing, sharing the Clein family & 'Bridging Generations' theme. 'We also had the unbelievable privilege of one of our Yr 13 students sharing his great grandmother’s incredible story of surviving the Holocaust'

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We continue to hear of more T&L & commemorative initiatives, events & experiences marking HMD this week.

For example, across our Beacon Schools network:
Hinde House have held assemblies, HMD PD lessons using Centre resources & #HtFMEUs doc, @holocaustmuseumuk.bsky.social visits & PE links.

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Applications are open for our online ‘Holocaust in the Curriculum’ MA module which has been recognised by
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social

Places for teachers in England fully-funded by the Pears Foundation.
Deadline 27 Feb.
Info, FAQs & application at holocausteducation.org.uk/masters-modu...

More compelling teaching & learning & commemorative initiatives, events & experiences took place today in schools marking HMD, & more will follow across the week.
A flavour of engagement across our Beacon Schools network includes:

Highfields School, Skegness Academy, Woodhey High School

Here also examples of today's Holocaust Memorial Day being marked:

Trinity Catholic High (its garden, & some of the shoes- whilst rest are on display in Westminster), Royal Wootton Bassett Academy (bridge of values & pledges, through PE, & assembly)

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We know powerful educational & commemorative initiatives, events & experiences took place today in schools to mark HMD, & more will follow across the week.
A flavour of the range of engagement across our Beacon Schools network includes:

Demeter House, Healing Academy, MEA & Lawn Manor Academy

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