Holocaust Memorial Day
Holocaust Memorial Day provides an opportunity for age-appropriate learning about the Holocaust, Nazi persecution and the consequences of prejudice, dehumanisation and discrimination. Learners can reflect on human rights, remembrance and the importance of challenging hatred and exclusion, while approaching the subject with care and historical accuracy.
International Day of Education
International Day of Education is an opportunity to explore education as a human right and its role in building fairer, more peaceful and sustainable societies. Learners can consider inequalities in access to education, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how children and young people can help shape the education they receive.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Martin Luther King Jr. Day offers an opportunity to explore the US civil rights movement, equality and non-violent social change. Learners can consider how people and communities respond to discrimination, how rights movements develop and how these themes connect to anti-racist education today.
Nelson Mandela Day
Nelson Mandela Day encourages learners to reflect on justice, equality and taking action to make a difference.
From Neutrality to Peace: responding to the rise of racism
Nuzhat Uthmani, Lecturer in Primary Education at Stirling University, and Committee member of Educators for Peace, argues that neutrality in education is untenable and potentially harmful.
Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day offers a space to pause, reflect, and remember those whose lives were lost in war. It’s also a time to look forward: to consider what peace means today, and how we can help ensure the suffering and loss of past conflicts are never repeated.
What’s the best way to stop a conflict?
This activity provides a forum for children to discuss ways of dealing with conflict which might occur in the playground or classroom.
Long Walk to Freedom – fact, fiction and opinion
Using an extract from Nelson Mandela’s biography Long Walk to Freedom pupils explore the difference between fact, fiction and opinion.
Trees of Peace
Pupils from Oakgrove Primary School will be taking their unique performance of Wangarĩ’s Trees for Peace to the Scottish Parliament on 21 September, International Peace Day. Here Ellis Brooks from the Quakers shares their project.
Teach Peace
How do we teach for peace and justice? Ellis Brooks, Peace Education coordinator with the Quakers and Diana Firth, Global Education Advisor with Wosdec, reflect on how we can approach sensitive issues in the classroom.