Political Awareness Week

Welcome to the Political Awareness Week website.

What?

A week of activities, events and presentations by the highest calibre of guests to get schools engaged in the issues of our time. It is organised by pupils from King Edward's School, Birmingham. Our speakers include:

When?

22/2/2021 - 26/2/2021

Getting Involved

If you think politics is boring, here's the chance to prove yourself wrong! Attend presentations, watch the debates and talk to your friends! This is the best way for you to experience politics as it actually is. Please see the schedule for more information.

Schools Looking to Get Involved

If you are a school looking to get involved in our event, please click here for more information. Or, ask a supervising teacher to fill in the following form:

https://forms.gle/qGfSm1LEBw6kVWCU8

Signing up will involve:

1) Full access to all the external speakers and Zoom events, whose links will be sent out closer to the time.

2) Suggestions and advice for how to organise your own internal events

KES Pupils

KES pupils, please join the Google Classroom that you have been invited to. Zoom links and other information will be posted on the Classroom.

Why?

More young people are disengaged with politics than ever before – only 60% of those under 27 years old voted in the 2017 general election, compared to 80% above 27. However, holding government to account is vital to our democracy, to ensure that they are our representatives. With social media’s disinformation in the melting pot, that duty is harder to fulfil than ever before.

To find out more about why we created this event, please see the Why page.