Future events

Annual Awards event

The 2026 Annual Awards event will take place in February 2027, date tbc.

Shared Practice events

At these online events, schools share their good practice of teaching and learning about the Holocaust. Participants listen to a guest speaker.

Our next online Shared Practice events will be on 22nd April and 6th May 2026.

Online Drop-in sessions

Drop-in sessions provide teachers with an opportunity to speak to a member of the Vision Schools Scotland Team about their application and to clarify specific issues.

These are for schools applying for Level 1 for the first time. Keep checking this website for confirmation of dates. Drop-in sessions for schools applying for Level 2 will be arranged by request.

Annual Awards

Our 2025 event was held in February 2026 at The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh. Speakers were:

  • Jackie Bailie MSP
  • Jackson Carlaw MSP
  • Dr Paula Cowan, Director of Visions Schools Scotland
  • Judy Russell, daughter of Rev. Ernest Levy OBE
  • Jenny Gilruth, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills
  • Professor James A. Miller FRSE, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of the West of Scotland

Guest speakers at awards’ events have included:

  • The Lord Mann, the UK Government’s Independent Adviser on Antisemitism
  • The Rt. Hon. Ken Macintosh
  • Chitra Ramaswamy, author, Journalist and friend of Henry Wuga MBE
  • Shirley-Anne Somerville,  MSP and  former Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills
  • John Swinney, First Minister of Scotland
  • Maria Chamberlain, author and scientist
  • Rachel Riley MBE, television presenter
  • Robert Rinder MBE, criminal barrister and television presenter
  • Michael Rosen, poet, author and broadcaster

Link to 2025 event coming soon

Student - teacher Seminar

Vision Schools Scotland’s first Student/Teacher conference was held at the UWS Lanarkshire campus  on 12th June, 2025. Entitled, The Impact of  Teaching and Learning about theHolocaust,  guest speakers were Dame Helen Hyde, Gillian Field and Jackson Carlaw, MSP. Students and teachers from five Vision Schools presented at this conference.

SEMINAR FOR TEACHER – LUBLIN, POLAND, JULY 2025

Eighteen teachers from Scotland participated in an eight day seminar in Lublin in July 2025. This seminar was funded by the Claims Conference (US), the Association of Jewish Refugees and the University of the West of Scotland. The seminar was led by Yiftach Meiri from Yad Vashem, Tal Schwartz from Grodzka Gate NN Theatre Centre, the Lublin Jewish historical centre, and Dr Andrew Killen and Prof Henry Maitles from Vision SchoolsScotland. This intensive seminar included site visits and tours of concentration and death camps, walking tours of Lublin exploring the destruction of the ghetto, workshops on Jewish life in Poland before the War, and sessions on how to incorporate this professional learning into teaching and learning of the Holocaust. Evaluation of this seminar is being conducted by Dr Alasdair Richardson, Reader in Education, Institute of Education, University of Winchester.

The group back at the hotel post Chelm and Sobibor trip, doing a exercise reflectiing on experiences.

Group at Belzec, an excellent Tour

At Majdanek, looking at educational activities

At Majdanek, very moving Pictures are of the memorial, the gas chamber and the 400,000 pairs of shoes from the victims.

A Seminar on Jewish life in Poland post wart, a moving eperience using oral history.

Last updated: 24/03/2026