The Mount School York – PeaceJam UK praises York school for adopting programme into curriculum

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A York school was today applauded for being the first in the country to adopt an international Peace programme, designed by Nobel Laureates, into their curriculum.

PeaceJam UK praised The Mount School for including their education programme into their sixth form college syllabus, which was announced yesterday.

While many schools and youth groups in England have adopted the Programme informally, through after-school clubs, they have not embedded the teachings into the curriculum proper.

'We think this is really great of The Mount and hope that other schools will be inspired to adopt the programme as part of their curriculum as well,' said Sally Milne of PeaceJam Programme UK.

As the UK’s only all girls Quaker day and boarding school, The Mount is well known in York for charity and community works as well as academic excellence, and has been actively involved with the Colorado-based international Peacejam Foundation since 2006.

After attending PeaceJam’s annual UK conference where students met Nobel Peace Laureate Adolpho Perez Esquivel (1980), the School’s Head of College, Jo Hayward, and Head of History, Helen Snelson took the initiative to adopt the programme into their college curriculum.

The Mount School currently boasts five living Dames among their alumni. With the introduction of the Peacejam curriculum, the School appears confident that number will only rise.

The Mount will host its own Peacejam Slam at the School in October of this year. The guest speaker is Rahab Maina, the human rights defender from Kenya, who has staged a long fight for the rights of exploited workers on Kenyan farms supplying fruit and flowers to first world supermarket chains.

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