We ended the day with an engaging, funny and inspiring talk in school from @judithbuntingLD on life as an MEP - and the benefits of walking towards trouble, seeking opportunities, pushing (and pushing again) and achieving more with others than alone. #EPAmbass...

Students split into project teams. They considered their shared motivations, ambitions and ethos (pride, activism, learning, organised fun!) and began to plan an activity based on their EPAS work for Key Stage 3 students, including lessons, quizzes, tournament...

Day 2 of our @epasorguk project is complete! Y11 unpicked democracy with @doingdemocracy, discussed science policy with @SAPEAnews, set team goals and roles, talked languages with ex-student Emily and explored life on the political front line with ex-MEP @judi...

Great fun to meet Y11 students @CherwellEnrich & talk about how #scienceadvice works (spoiler: in many different ways!), whether scientists should have more political power (spoiler: nope), & what it's like to move to Belgium (spoiler: ☔️)...

Alice even created our very own medieval manuscript project logo design - a Cherwell swan inspired by the style of bestiary illuminations! https://t.co/prXYxzqVWm

We added to our medieval library with books on medieval monsters, cats in the margins and (less bizarrely) Professor Turner's biography 'Chaucer: A European Life' - complete with our very own marginalia and gloss to inspire future students on their own medieva...

The second Year 11 medieval manuscript project session explored marginalia and illuminations, thinking about how we 'read' text and image, our responses as readers, competing functions of different types of text and the tension between seriousness and play. ht...