Education Network

Education Network

Intergenerational work in education is often led by just one or two people who, having heard about or seen for themselves the difference engaging with older adults has upon children and young people, have decided to develop these opportunities in their own community. You can listen here to Education Scotland’s podcast with GWT regarding the importance of intergenerational work in education.

Our aim is to connect teachers, staff, volunteers and individuals who are interested or engaged in developing intergenerational work within the education sector, from early years onward. By providing a space to bring interested parties together, we will be able to share experiences, knowledge, best practice and research, through discussion opportunities, bite size training, guest presentations and most importantly, learning from each other.

The network will meet as a twilight session, online three times each year via a Teams link. Should you wish to join the Education Network please contact GWT office here

Education Network meetings for 2025

Tuesday 25th November at 4pm – 5.30pm
If you are going to invest time and resources embedding intergenerational work into the curriculum it makes sense to have a good level of knowledge of intergenerational work and its core principles and quality standards, to ensure that your intergenerational practice is of good quality. The better the quality, the more likely you are to achieve the outcomes you are looking for, which in turn makes your programme more likely to become sustainable.
In this session we are delighted to hear from two education based intergenerational programmes which have recently been awarded a GWT Excellence Award at the GWT Inverness Conference; The Compass School and Our Community Kitchen and MCR Pathways.
They will each be sharing their work and how it has developed and been embedded within the curriculum and the results they have seen.
Places can be booked here.

Previous meetings 2025

Wednesday 12th February 4pm – 5.30pm
This session included a presentation from Fey Cole, author of ‘Intergenerational Practice in Schools and Settings’ and Lorraine George shared the new GWT intergenerational resources available for the education sector.
View a recording of the session here

Tuesday 10th June 4pm – 5.30pm
Developing intergenerational work in schools need not always be just the teachers responsibility. This session explored how effective partnership working can be led by volunteers, pupil support staff at all levels, and partner organisations and the guest speakers were Alec Thompson-Miller from Ace Voices and Laura Taylor from Active Stirling
View the recording and transcript of the session.
The new publication ‘A brief guide to loneliness among young people and children at school’ can be downloaded here

INTERGENERATIONAL RESOURCES FOR THE EDUCATION SECTOR

Twilight information sessions about the new intergenerational resources available for the education sector are being held at 4pm on the following dates:
Nov 20th
Places must be booked via the date links above to be sent the link to the sessions.