Photos from Winners Award Ceremony 2019
The joint winners were a class of seven-year-olds from Keresley Grange Academy and eleven-year-old Harry Lovelock from President Kennedy School. Click a photo to enlarge.
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Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. They are lawyers, journalists and others who work to protect the most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children … Continue reading →
What are human rights?
After the horrors of the Second World War, the newly formed United Nations approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which includes 30 rights, freedoms and duties of every person in the world.
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The following simplified version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was produced by Amnesty International UK. We are all born free. We all have our own thoughts and ideas. We should all be treated in the same way. These … Continue reading →
Teaching About Human Rights
Amnesty International produces Words That Burn, 10 free resources that ask students to explore human rights themes and their own lives. The materials have been written for use in Key Stage 3: Lower Secondary (Year 7 to 9), each accompanied … Continue reading →
Winners of Coventry Children’s Peace Poem Competition 2018-19
During the Coventry Peace Festival leading up to the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the fighting of the Second World War, Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation invited children aged 16 or younger who live or … Continue reading →
Peace by a Year 3 class of at Keresley Grange Academy 2018-19
The poem “Peace” was written by a Year 3 class of seven-year-olds at Keresley Grange Academy. Each child wrote one verse of this poem which was one of the two joint-winners of Coventry Peace Poem in 2018-19. Teacher Katie Vaughan … Continue reading →
The Great Adventure by Harry Lovelock 2018-19
The poem “The Great Adventure” by Harry Lovelock age 11 of President Kennedy School was one of the two joint-winners of Coventry Peace Poem 2018-19. About writing the poem, Harry said “I found the ideas for my poem by watching … Continue reading →