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Pupil Design Awards 2021-2022: Final evaluation report

Report

15 Dec 2022

Veronica Mrvcic Aidan Daly (Researcher)

The Pupil Design Awards 2021-2022 evaluation aims to understand its impact on pupils' creative self-efficacy, design capabilities, and awareness of real-world issues facing them and their communities.
What are educators’ experiences supporting youth social action?

Blog

22 Nov 2022

Hannah Breeze

We asked 2,000 primary educators to share their attitudes, motivations and the potential benefits of delivering youth social action in the classroom.
Why fostering diversity must be at the heart of community building and social cohesion

Comment

08 Nov 2022

Susannah Hardyman

Susannah Hardyman explains how drawing on the diverse backgrounds of volunteer tutors to teach disadvantaged students has proved a powerful win-win
Inclusive solutions

Comment

21 Sep 2022

Jillian Linton

The winners of the 98th cycle of the RSA Student Design Awards (SDA) are shifting their understanding of who design is for by prioritising inclusive design solutions.
RSA Design Awards: A celebration of design

Blog

09 Aug 2022

Aoife O'Doherty

We recently Celebrated the winners of the Student Design Awards and the Pupil Design Awards 2022, at our ‘Designing our futures’ event. Learn about our awardees and their innovative designs.
Youth social action and the experience of primary educators

Blog

12 Jul 2022

Hannah Breeze

Contribute to our Third Benefit research to understand how involving primary school teachers in high-quality youth social action can inform benefits for them as well as pupils and communities.
School’s out

Comment

05 Jul 2022

Mehak Tejani Hannah Breeze

Does linking exclusions to critical services fail young people at risk?
Is there a third benefit to youth social action?

Blog

06 Jun 2022

Hannah Breeze

Educators play a key role in creating opportunities and supporting high-quality youth social action, particularly in the primary phase. The RSA and Pears #iWill Fund explore the undiscovered potential ‘third benefit’ that teachers represent and their unrealised benefit to pupils and communities.
Will a new history curriculum support schools to be more inclusive?

Blog

30 May 2022

Milla Nakkeeran

This blog explores the benefits of an inclusionary curriculum that empowers students to think critically about the past in a way that is meaningful to them.
We need children to discover real food at school

Comment

18 May 2022

Anthony Davison

The Big Barn project helps schools and their pupils become the centre of a sustainable, healthy, inclusive, food community, with the children learning about how much fun – and how delicious – home grown produce is. Anthony Davison invites you to get involved.