Lots of schools have been in touch to tell us about their school events. You can find out what they got up to by clicking on the school names below.
Read about 1GOAL events and how schools involved local leaders.
We hope these stories inspire you. Don't forget to get in touch and let us know what you have been doing for the 1GOAL campaign!
Kelloe School
Kelloe Primary has the Rights Respecting School Award (UNICEF). It cares about the rights of children, including those not lucky enough to be in school. 140 children made the paper scarf to show that they care and want others to care and to change these children’s life chances through the 1Goal campaign.
Also thirty children have made 75m of finger knitting into a scarf using a new skill they learnt in Friday Golden time with volunteer Dawn Whittaker. Each metre of finger knitting represents one million children not in school.
Like the Lambton Worm, a local legend, the knitting just grew and grew and the scarf also has bells on! Also Class 4 made a sari scarf banner and every child’s name is on a figure which represents the spectators at the World Cup.
The scarves give a clear message about their desire to make a difference. Dawn Whittaker is to present these three Kelloe football scarves to 10 Downing Street at the end of June.
‘We all enjoyed learning to finger knit and making the football scarf. I made lots of pieces at home. I want it to make difference to the children who are not lucky enough to go to school like us.’ James
Prospect School
Students in the Bridge (SEN Resource Base) at Prospect School in Reading invited Reading FC Goalie, Adam Federici to join them to promote the 1GOAL: Education for All campaign. The students performed a drama piece to show the importance of the campaign and how essential it is that every child gets an education in order to wipe out poverty. The Bridge students have learnt that Education beats Poverty and gives people the tools to help themselves.
Before the event the students designed individual supporter scarves to express their views about global education. These will be sent to David Cameroon to show our support for the global education campaign and to pressure him to keep his promise that every child will get an education by 2015. On the event day Adam Federici judged which scarves he thought were the best and the winning students were awarded football goodies which he then autographed.
The final activity of the day was starting our huge football supporter’s scarf which will also be sent to the Prime Minister. Adam Federici was the first to sign it and our students will be continuing to collect signatures throughout the World Cup.
After Adam’s visit the students did an assembly to the rest of the school reporting back on the event and promoting the one goal campaign.
Chani Morrow, teacher, said “Students have really enjoyed getting involved in 1Goal and it is helping them to become global citizens and learn about the situation of their peers in other parts of the world. If all young people work together we hope that politicians will take note and we are very grateful for Adam’s support in this.”
St John's School
St John’s school in Bridgnorth invited children from two other Bridgnorth schools this week to a Story Telling performance.
The aim of the event was to show the 9 and 10 year olds that they have a voice and can raise awareness about the fact that 72 million children in the world don’t get a chance to go to school at all.
The year 5 pupils asked the question – What would you do if you didn’t go to school? Then they explained the reality for millions of children who have to work in factories or scavenge on rubbish dumps instead of getting an education..
During the morning the St John’s pupils worked with Peter Chand, a professional Storyteller, to develop story telling techniques. They learned a traditional Indian tale and then performed it to their visitors in the afternoon.
The call to action for the afternoon was for everyone to sign up to the 1Goal campaign that wants to see every child in the world get the chance to go to school. Each school was presented with an Action Aid 1Goal pack and Alison Thomas from Bridges will be doing follow up workshops with them to explore the issues further and to help them all sign up to the 1Goal Campaign.
The event came about as a result of a project called Picturing our World coordinated by Bridges, a charity that works with schools and communities across Shropshire.
Helen Murray, Head Teacher at St Johns said “The event was a great opportunity for spreading the message about the need for universal education at the same time as bringing 3 schools together to enjoy Peter Chand’s stories and building our local and global community cohesion.”
St Vincents Primary School
Two MPs, Jim Dobbin and Simon Danzcuk turned up to watch our special 1 Goal football match. We also had a representative from the football community in the form of Nicky Spooner ( used to play for Bolton Wanderers!). The sun shone (amazingly for Rochdale) and some children from Year 6 explained about the campaign to our visitors.
The children of Year 3 then sang the world cup song (K'naan version) and the seven-a-side match took place. Children from our school, St Vincent's and from Caldershaw C.P. School, our neighbours were playing.They wore bibs featuring flags from countries of the world stating what % of children in those countries are currently at school. Some children had created a I Goal cheer leading routine. We had guest appearances from a banana and a hotdog who both were supporting 1 goal as you will see from the pictures.
We presented some of our signed scarfs to the MPs but some we will be sending with letters to the PM next week. As you will also see from the photos one our our children, Lois Thompson made a special cross stitich scarf which we will also be sending on to the PM.
by Maureen Carnighan
Victoria Primary
Learners at Victoria Primary made colourful paper scarves and met their MP Victoria Nash. She asked the Prime Minister a question in Parliament about Send My Friend to School. Her question and David Cameron's answer are shown below.
Pamela Nash MP: I am sure that the Prime Minister is aware of the send my friend to school campaign, in which my young constituents at Victoria primary school in Airdrie are involved and about which they will be writing to him this week. The campaign aims to ensure that the Government direct the £8.5 billion that was committed by the previous Labour Government towards universal primary education by 2015. The matter will be discussed on 7 July at the education summit in South Africa, which is tied in with the World cup. Has the Prime Minister personally spoken to President Zuma and other African leaders about their pledges, and will he confirm that a review of the Department for International Development's funding will not compromise our pledge?
David Cameron: First, I welcome the hon. Lady following her election; I think that I am right in saying that she is the youngest Member of the House of Commons. She is quite right to talk about the millennium development goals and aid spending. It is good that it is common cause across the House of Commons that, despite the difficult decisions that we will have to take, we should meet the target of 0.7% of gross national income. We are committed to doing that, which means that we can continue to support the poorest people in the poorest countries. We will be addressing such issues this weekend at the G8 in Canada.
Waldegrave & Lady Eleanor Holles
Students at Waldegrave worked with students from neighbouring Lady Eleanor Holles School to host a visit from their MP Vince Cable.
We received this report from Alice Davies who is in Year 9 at Lady Eleanor Holles School:
On Friday 18th June, the Lady Eleanor Holles School showed their support for the 1Goal campaign: to get all children in the world a primary education by 2015.
We had an assembly in the morning from an Oxfam representative, who provided us with all the background knowledge we needed to know: what the problem was, what the children’s circumstances are and therefore why they cannot go to school despite wanting to do so. Finally he described to us what we could do about it. He also told us about the issues with children not getting an education and how that could affect them for the rest of their lives.
We then found that all we had to do to show our support was to come along at lunch time that day and sign and decorate part of the scarf for our school. When the time came, a tremendous amount of people turned up, and we soon ran out of scarf templates. Everyone made their part of the scarf very colourful with plenty of glitter!
Our scarf was presented to our MP, Vince Cable, a week later at a ceremony at Waldegrave School, who also took part in the 1Goal campaign. As our scarf had so many contributors, we hope it will be even more effective in putting pressure on the government to achieve their Millennium goals. A lot of girls at LEH contributed to this charity effort, and it will make a big difference to the campaign, showing that young people do care about other children that need an education.
Vince Cable said this about his visit:
'The presentation from Waldegrave and Lady Eleanor Holles pupils was highly professional and was a very powerful message of support for global education. I fully support what the pupils are trying to achieve.'
Wallacewell Primary
Our school is very keen to promote Global Citizenship- we try to incorporate it into our topics and are linked with Bondo Primary in Malawi.
Half of the P7 and P6 classes were on an Outward Bound week, the rest of the P6 & P7 classes were joined together and carried out the 3 lessons from the pack.
They also presented the 1GOAL assembly to the whole school and explained about the huge scarf we wanted to make. Each child designed and made part of a paper scarf, these were to be joined together to make a huge scarf (we have nearly 300 pupils!) and displayed around the fence of our huge football pitch- however, Glasgow being Glasgow, it proved too windy, so the staff agreed to bring every child onto the pitch for a whole school photo- the children loved it!!!
by Jane Lobjoie
