Year 7 Pupils from Millennium Integrated Primary School in County Down attracted media attention for Refugee Week. The children were interviewed for the local radio station, had articles appear in newspapers and also websites and blogs following their school assembly which highlighted some of the issues affecting refugees both here and around the world .
10/06/09 : NICCY and Lift Off team up for RTU Summer School
Lift Off in Northern Ireland has teamed up with the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young people (NICCY) to present a course in the RTU Summer School Programme. The course entitled; Sharing Good practice in whole school approaches to Rights Education in Primary Schools will run on
Thursday 20th August 2009.
This course will:
· Consider ways to develop more effective, democratic schools through whole school rights education.
· Raise awareness of rights in relation to the NI Primary Curriculum
· Share good practice from the Lift Off human rights education initiative and the NICCY school council initiative
· Consider ways to incorporate a rights based approaches into practice and policy
For further details and application forms see Course Code CN50 the prospectus available in your schools, visit the Regional Training Unit website www.rtuni.com/summerschool
or Telephone 02890 618121
Refugee Week is a UK wide programme of events which celebrate the contribution of refugees.
Refugee Week 2009 will take place from 15 - 21 June. During Refugee Week hundreds of events exploring refugee experiences take place across the UK. These range from small community and school activities to art exhibitions, political debates, film screenings, conferences, big music festivals, sports events etc...
Anyone can get involved in Refugee Week either by organising or visiting an event or by just spreading the word!
Teachers interested in taking action for Refugee Week fomr the 15th - 21st June may find some useful resources for teaching and learning on these websites.