November update
2025 Professional Development opportunities for teachers
Join us for engaging sessions to update content knowledge and network with other teachers:
17 January Learning for Life & Work
4 April Key Stage 2 (World Around Us, School & Eco Councils)
6 June Special Educational Needs
Please email education.service@niassembly.gov.uk if you wish to attend the event on 17 January 2025 for LLW teachers
Planning to take your students to Parliament Buildings this academic year?
Places are filling up already for 2025.
We recommend that groups visit on set days, in order to ensure that your students get the most suitable education programme.
Monday and Tuesday A-Level/GCSE Government and Politics
Wed, Thursday and Friday Key Stage 2 and Key Stages 3 & 4
Please email education.service@niassembly.gov.uk for more information.
Have your say
The Committee for Education is carrying out a Mini-Inquiry into Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) in Schools, and would like to hear the views of teachers, students and parents.
Link for teachers and parents - Mini Inquiry into Relationship and Sexuality Education - Northern Ireland Assembly - Citizen Space
Link for students - https://consult.nia-yourassembly.org.uk/education/rse-mini-inquiry-children-and-young-people/
Alternatively, you may send comments to the Committee at committee.education@niassembly.gov.uk
Please note that the consultation closes on 8 January 2025.
Winner of the Eco-bag Design Competition for Primary Schools
Congratulations to Elsie May McLaughlin from P7, St Patrick’s Primary School, Derry/Londonderry, for winning the Assembly’s recent art competition, to design a new environment-themed image for a cloth bag to be sold in the shop at Parliament Buildings. Here is the winning image:
Resource for A-Level Politics Teachers
The House of Commons Library has produced a document on the UK Constitution.
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9384/CBP-9384.pdf