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This newsletter brings you good wishes for the end of term, a restful Christmas break and a peaceful 2025

Have you seen our new look website?

If you haven't been to our website recently we'd really recommend it! Click on the images below to see what you think.

It has had a facelift, showing some of our new images of our work and reflects our peace education offer. You will find our animation which explains peace education and a link to our starter pack to help you with your peace education journey.

Our fabulous resource page has been updated. It is still chock full of excellent tried and tested free resources. It is now fully searchable so you should be able to find all your well loved Peacemakers resources really easily as well as find some new activities to try. You can search by age range or by theme. All the Learning for Peace activities are easy to find too - just choose the Learning for Peace theme in your search! Have a look and let us know what you think.

Ocker Hill Infant and Nursery School - nominated for a pemediation award!

A Peacemakers trained school - Ocker Hill Infant and Nursery School in Sandwell - has been nominated for the National Mediation Awards 2024. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at the prestigious House of Commons on 12 December.

Having visited this mediation scheme in action last year we can attest to its excellence (although we would say that wouldn't we!). You should never under estimate the ability of 6 and 7 year olds to approach peer mediation in a mature and sensible way, finding creative solutions to playground conflicts.

We pass on our congratulations to a thoroughly deserving team at Ocker Hill and wish them all the very best for the award ceremony.

Click here for more information and to find out how you can make peer mediation a reality in your setting

A different way to train peer mediators

Would you like to train peer mediators in your school? Next term we are planning things a bit differently - we will be running our popular eight week Peacebuilders course culminating in two days of peer mediation training for those who would like to become mediators.

Follow this link to our website

Do you work with 17 year olds?

Our Peaceful Leadership course helps Year 12 students develop the key life skills of peacebuilding, including: emotional literacy, exploring conflict and violence, creative
conflict resolution, critical thinking, cooperation and group work and modelling ‘peace as a way of being’ to their peers.

The training is a mix of theory, discussion, sills practice, action planning and small groupwork.

“It provided fresh air to the stress we go through due to A levels”

“I enjoyed the interactive nature of the
course and how we could form groups to
voice our opinions. I also enjoyed the
games we played.”

“I found it really engaging as they made conversation with us instead of just speaking at us”

Get in touch

We are always eager to make peace education happen - if you would like to work with us or know a school who would, get in touch: office@peacemakers.org.uk

Want to know more about what peace education is? Click on the image below to check out our animation and download our starter pack from our website.

Our mailing address is: Peacemakers, 41 Bull Street, Birmingham, West Midlands B4 6AF United Kingdom

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