Future events

Annual Awards event

The 2025 Annual Awards event will take place on 26th February 2026.

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 in April and May 2026. Dates tbc.

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 2024 event was held in February 2025 at The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh.  Speakers were:

  • Jackie Bailie MSP
  • Jackson Carlaw MSP
  • Dr Paula Cowan, Director of Visions Schools Scotland
  • The Lord Mann, the UK Government’s Independent Adviser on Antisemitism
  • Jenny Gilruth, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills
  • The Rt. Hon. Ken Macintosh

Guest speakers at awards’ events have included:

  • 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

WATCH THE 2024 EVENT HERE

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.

HENRY AND ARTHER ZYGIELBOJM IN CHELM

He was a major Bundist leader who smuggled out and produced a report demanding action by the Allies on the genocide.  He was angered and depressed that he could not persuade the allies to do anything and at the time of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, he had committed suicide.

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: 07/10/2025