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Bryden Joy
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🇦🇺 in 🇬🇧 • Senior Lead Practitioner for Personal Development • Advisor & Ambassador for Association for Citizenship Teaching • GCSE Citizenship Teacher of the Year 2022 • Tintin & Tim Hortons geek
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ACT Ambassador and Council member Bryden Joy spoke on a panel at the Council of Europe #EuropeanSpaceforCitizenshipEducation conference in Montenegro last week and highlighted the vital role of Citizenship education in the digital age. Read more: https://ow.ly/AA6v50XgLOm EduSkyUK
October 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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ACT Council Member, Bryden Joy was panellist today for a session at the Council of Europe’s 'Towards a European Space for Citizenship Education' conference, led by educators and students on how the initiative can address current priorities, expectations and challenges.
October 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Job alert! At @ormistonacads.bsky.social we’re looking for someone to lead maths across the trust. You’ll work with staff and leaders in schools, other subject leads centrally set the strategic direction with me to take maths to the next level at OAT. mynewterm.com/jobs/4106/ED...
Senior Lead Practitioner for Mathematics - Ormiston Academies Trust, Birmingham, West Midlands
Closing date: 9:00am, Thu 25th Sep, 2025. View full details and apply online at MyNewTerm.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
For any secondary HODs wanting to start mapping their provision against the new RSHE guidance, I have two documents to share.

The first is a breakdown of 2019 v 2025 standards. Subtopics shown on each page (or series of pages) for ease of comparison.

bit.ly/4nRMhdC
July 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Citizenship education plays a vital role in preparing young people to navigate digital life—not just to spot misinformation, but to participate with purpose and integrity. #CitizenshipEd #MediaLiteracy
June 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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For those counting refs to different subjects in interim #CAR report, every NC ref = Citizenship too!

@beckyfrancis.bsky.social and panel aware of how citizenship contributes eg media lit, finance

GCSE citz studies should be marked as ebacc optional subject, like PE

@acitizenshipt.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Children's Commissioner report shows that most schools are managing phone use - but online risks go beyond the school gates.

To protect, we must educate.

Through #CitizenshipEducation, we can build critical, informed & active citizens who know how to use digital media for good. bit.ly/3Es6STY
School phone policies in England: Findings from the Children’s Commissioner’s School and College Survey | Children's Commissioner for England
Over the last four years, I have spoken to a million young people and thousands of parents about the most pressing issues facing children growing up in
www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk
April 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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NEW research from @acitizenshipt.bsky.social National Curriculum Citizenship works! Let’s make sure every pupil in every school gets it www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk/new-research...
April 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Just before 2nd #teaching placement & after weeks of problematic #news great to see Chair of @acitizenshipt.bsky.social Council delivering #critical #media #literacy #teacher #education to our #student #teachers @ioe.bsky.social 👀 Teaching Citizenship journal issue 51 supported by US Embassy London.
February 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Landmark Pornography Review highlights PSHE education's key preventative role in reducing harms alongside better regulation and restrictions:

pshe-association.org.uk/news/pornogr...

#RSHE #PSHE
February 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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#Citizenship #education has its critics & many schools do not meet statutory requirements for its delivery. @jonesedu.bsky.social asks what role citizenship has in 2025 & offers ideas for how #schools can ensure this subject thrives? buff.ly/3XgQwUC #teaching #teachers #PSHE #edusky
Nurturing civic minds: The place of citizenship education in 2025 - SecEd
The role and importance of citizenship education and teaching and ideas for how schools can deliver this subject well
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February 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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New resource from the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood: 'Shaping Us'.

- straightfowardly describes the social and emotional skills we need to thrive.

- includes a short guide about what the skills look like in early childhood

centreforearlychildhood.org/our-work/res...
February 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Teaching media literacy is essential if we are to keep pupils safe and secure online. It also has a democratic/political element too.

Article written for @seced.bsky.social . Reposted👇.

#edusky #uked #education #citizenship #pshe #schools #safeguarding

mrjoneswhiteboard.blog/2025/02/02/t...
Teaching media literacy: An essential skill for the digital age
Originally written for SecEd Magazine and published on 26 November 2024. Over the last decade, I have observed that teaching A level sociology lessons on media ownership, news values, and audiences…
mrjoneswhiteboard.blog
February 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Two years ago today, I sat in my colleague's kitchen, mapping out an ambitious curriculum to cover Key Stage 3 and 4 Citizenship, PSHE, Careers and Youth Social Action for Ormiston Academies Trust schools. 1/20
January 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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English specialists: want to work in one of the country’s biggest Trusts, helping us reach our goal of providing a best-in-class education to children around the country? Take a look and get in touch…
My job - Senior Lead for English at Ormiston Academies Trust - is up for grabs. An amazing opportunity for someone to consolidate implementation of English across the MAT mynewterm.com/jobs/4106/EDV-…
https://mynewterm.com/jobs/4106/EDV-…
September 13, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Hi everyone, I'm a MAT Senior Lead Practitioner for Personal Development, I have taught PSHE and Citizenship for over 15 years. It'd be great to connect with other teachers, especially those teaching PSHE and/or Cz, or those with PD responsibilities.

#PSHE #teachingCZ #UKEd #UKTeaching #EduSky
August 18, 2024 at 1:03 PM