Teaching in the UK may have its difficulties, but fortunately Maoist strikes are not one of them. For volunteer teachers from UK charity Our Sansar, teaching in Nepal has thrown up considerable challenges, not least of which has been the closure of the schools by a countrywide shutdown. But with the schools now open again, [...]
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1Goal – Send My Friend to School
World leaders have promised that all children will have a primary education by 2015 but with only 5 years left to go, there are still 75 million children missing out on an education completely. 1Goal, organized by the Global Campaign for Education, aims to get more children around the world a school place. The theme for 2010 [...]
Wrong Trousers Day 2010
Wrong Trousers Day 2010 asks the nation to wear their pyjamas with pride to school or nursery. This is all to show support for sick children in local hospitals and hospices. This year’s event takes place on Friday 25th June 2010. www.wrongtrousersday.org You can find out more by visiting www.wrongtrousersday.org or by calling 0845 6001 [...]
Friendship Funday
Friendship Funday is Save the Children’s national fundraising day in primary schools. They are on a mission to find schools that want to have fun, celebrate friendship, and help save children’s lives. Your school can join the fun and: enrich your teaching of children’s rights, deliver aspects of the global citizenship curriculum, strengthen the ‘friendly’ [...]
Free Resources from Practical Action
Practical Action are a development charity who are offering lots of free resources for schools, linked to their work in helping some of the world’s poorest people to transform their lives for the better. www.practicalaction.org.uk/education The Education area of their site has a wide range of content for teachers and pupils, including: Videos showing how [...]
Free resources from Plan
Plan is one of the largest child-centred community development organisations in the world, helping children and their families in 48 of the poorest countries to break the cycle of poverty. In the countries where they work, one out of five children die before the age of five, and the ones who survive often go hungry and [...]
Peter Pan Week 2010
The Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity are running a week of Peter Pan themed fundraising activities and a Guinness World Record attempt in aid of the charity. The week runs from 26th to 30th April and thousands of people will be taking part in the biggest ever Peter Pan dress up day on Friday 30th [...]
Cake a Difference week
Cake A Difference is a brand new fundraising initiative for Bliss. Bliss is a charity dedicated to helping premature and sick babies throughout the UK and it is only through voluntary donations and fundraising that they are able to carry out their work. From 8-14 February 2010, they are asking primary schools to support Bliss [...]
Pull your socks up for Sport Relief
Sport Relief is calling all school teachers to join in one of the UK’s biggest fundraising events in 2010 and get the whole school kitted out and active in Sport Relief Socks. The super-simple scheme enables schools to bulk buy Sport Relief Socks from www.sportrelief.com/schools and sell them for just £2 a pair to pupils, [...]
Primary Teaching Volunteers Urgently Needed
In 2000, 164 countries committed to achieving Education for All by 2015. As access to education is improving, enrolment figures are rising fast, and developing communities now urgently need qualified teachers to deliver quality education. VSO, the UK’s leading volunteering charity, are urgently looking for primary teachers to go overseas on placements and deliver ‘in [...]
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