On Tuesday, Selwyn House, St James and Linwood met together with the UNESCO representatives to discuss what each school had been doing and our steps for next term. Each school had been doing a lot of exciting things and different things. St James are going to be working on a project called Christchurch Stands Tall.

They invited us to pitch in and help. Next term the three schools will be working together to paint a UNESCO themed giraffe. Watch this space!!

UNertia Competition

Here is the link to a really exciting competition open to Primary Schools. It is about promoting sustainable and green practices amongst schools.

http://joinunertia.org/

Celebrating 60 years of peace

60th ASPnet Anniversary Conference

On September the 6th-9th 2013 the 60th anniversary of the UNESCO ASPnet associated schools programme was held in Korea. Representatives from over 160 schools around the world come and discuss their UNESCO related practices. The National Coordinators from a selection of the countries spoke and presented some of the challenges they faced as well as looking at the successes. 

Overall the schools decided that we wanted to raise awareness in each of our countries for the things that UNESCO does. We also wanted the network to become more student led and give children the chance to connect and see what other schools around the world were doing. We wanted to do this through technologies such as apps, Skype and video conferencing.

The UNESCO website states the main aims were to

• To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Network and pay tribute to participating ASPnet National Coordinators, principals, teachers and students
• To assess the key achievements of the Network at each level: school, national, regional and international
• To discuss new approaches for developing a Strategy and Plan of Action (2014-2021) for promoting global citizenship based on peace and sustainable development.

UNESCO ASPnet Conference on PhotoPeach

Projects to get you started.

Click on the picture to visit the Surfaid site.

SurfAid is an organisation that works with communities to prevent disease, suffering and death in areas that are affected by natural disasters. They ask for volunteers to raise awareness of their organisation. 

Click on the picture to visit the WW100 site

This website is about remembering World War 1, which happened 100 years ago. Explore the site to see how you can get involved.

Beginnings

Welcome to the ASPnet Associated Schools Primary Blog. This is a site for you to talk about what you are doing in your UNESCO group at school and share ideas, questions, photos and videos. Start blogging and sharing your ideas!