Your first Junior Ambassador Meeting
Activity guides
These activity guides can be printed off and shared with your EPAS team to help them plan events, share what they are doing, and complete your accreditation.
If you have an activity guide you would like us to create, drop us an email: info@epas.org.uk
Lesson Plans
Further resources, ideas, and inspiration
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European Art
During an Art lesson, the pupil looked at famous European paintings and completed some research behind the history of their work, the artists and their influences. The pupil then chose 3 pieces to focus on which will then form inspiration for her next piece of art work, which will be inspired by Van Gogh’s bold…
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Priestley College Celebrates Europe Day 2026
Priestley College celebrated Europe Day with a whole host of activities: sharing food, quizzes, the InfoPoint and activities on their social media channels. Links EPAS Team Comment Great to see so much going on at Priestley to celebrate Europe Day.
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Debate Society Session on the European Union
During a special Debate Society session, students discussed the idea of a common European army and the future of European defence cooperation. The debate encouraged participants to analyse questions surrounding security, sovereignty, and the future direction of the European Union while developing their public speaking and critical thinking skills. EPAS Team Comment Very much a…
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Discussion tasks on Europe
As a school, we looked at idiomatic phrases from other European countries and how they linked to phrases that we use in the English language. Pupils tried saying some phrases in different languages such as Russian, Spanish and French. In addition, pupils were given fact cards to read about Europe which informed deeper discussion. Lastly,…
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Europe Day Assemblies
In the week leading up to Europe Day our assemblies focused on Europe. In our secondary assemblies, we adapted the EPAS resources from a couple of years ago to focus on the importance of democracy, linking it to the shared values between the UK and the EU, and the local elections that were taking place…
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Europe Day: Video on UK-EU relations
As part of the Europe Day 2026 celebrations, two junior ambassadors, Ben and Luke, produced a short documentary analysing the results from a survey on the perspectives of students on current UK-EU relations and the possible direction of travel. Watch their documentary on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZcgvQ0RLPi/ EPAS Team Comment Very well done, Ben and Luke. Really…
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Europe Day: Cultural Fair
EPAS ambassadors at USP College (Palmers Campus) held a cultural fair promoting EU awareness, cultural exchange, and democratic engagement to celebrate Europe Day. They organised face painting, photo portraits, academic displays, and a Europe Day playlist. Links EPAS Team Comment A great way to celebrate Europe Day, showing off your Unity in Diversity!
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Junior Ambassadors teach lessons about democracy
Two Year 8 and one Year 7 classes thoroughly enjoyed learning more about the EU and democracy from Year 12 Junior Ambassadors. EPAS Team Comment Great work! Wonderful to get students taking the lead on something like this for Europe Day.
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Northern Counties School Attending Europe Day in London
We applied to attend Europe Day at Europe House with 10 of our young people with complex SEND. This group included our Head Boy/Head Girl who we elect each year through a democratic process. We took part in the Q&A session and Ruby asked the speakers, “What does the UK rejoining Erasmus+ mean for pupils…