Ideas for schools for International Day of Peace

[Julia Morton-Marr]

IHTEC�S DRAFT IDEAS FOR THE INVOLVEMENT OF SCHOOLS
Drafted on: March 22, 2012

This can be done everywhere in the world.

Contact the following: Minister of Education, Deputy Ministers of Education, School Boards Association, School Principals Association, Teachers Association, Phi Delta Kappa International etc.

International Day of Peace: Inter-cultural Arts Celebration for Schools.

Before the day have a peace torch run from school to school in every district. This must represent all the cultures in your school and community.

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ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE, 21 SEPTEMBER ANNUALLY

Venue: Largest football arena available to hold enough students in years 7-9. Some venues might hold more children. Other such venues could be: Botanical Gardens, or the Grounds of your Government House.

Alternative Venue: Hold a whole school event around your peace pole, or in your International School Peace Garden,.

Each student must participate either in the songs or chants.
For individual School events: these to be conducted on centre stage, with school rock bands, dance groups, and other groups involving the Arts.

Program:

1.      

All participants to learn to sing 3 peace songs to be sung at the event.

a.       Let there be peace on earth

b.       Create a Cha Cha Cha type song, using the word - Sustainability

c.       Other

2.      Each student to know how to do a football wave, at the right time.

3.      Use lots of color, maybe at sunset use torches.

4.      Each student to hold a colored cardboard to create the words Peace and Sustainability.

5.      Every school and / or culture represented, to create an original performance around what they are doing towards sustainability in their school program.

Additional sustainability ideas:

6.      Use drink bottles that don�t contain plastics.

7.       Coloured items that can be recycled and don�t leave garbage. ie: No balloons

8.       Invent was to use recycled items as costumes.