Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation, Coventry Cathedral, SACRE and the United Nations Association Coventry Branch invite children who live or go to school in Coventry or Warwickshire and who will be 16 or younger on 30 November to write a peace poem … Continue reading →
Article by Paul Maddocks, Chair of Coventry Society. Reverend Richard Lee a Coventry City Councillor and Alderman, played a major part in rebuilding Coventry and especially its schools after the war. Richard Lee was born in 1873 in Mexborough, Yorkshire. … Continue reading →
The Peace Orchard Website contains a number of peace education resources including: The Peace Calendar suggests one event for each month of the year that can form the focus of students’ peace activity – for example, the birth of Martin … Continue reading →
Peace One Day’s objective is to institutionalise International Peace Day 21 September, making it a day that is self-sustaining, an annual day of global unity, a day of intercultural cooperation on an unprecedented scale. Throughout the years, millions of people … Continue reading →
Most of the following videos have a short advertisement at the beginning. Keeping the stories of Hiroshima alive 75 years after bombing by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 6 Aug 2020, 4m:27s Seventy-five years after the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, … Continue reading →
Intisar Chowdhury became a national figure this year after the death of his father from coronavirus led to him questioning the health secretary, Matt Hancock, on live radio. After the death of George Floyd and the national conversation on racism, Chowdhury … Continue reading →
This is part of a project created by Miriam Monga, a student at Cardinal Newman Catholic School. BLM Ballerina Here I decided to use the ballerina to put across my message of equality because ballet is such an inherently white … Continue reading →
Peacemakers have put together some ideas and activities that teachers can use in circles – to help build relationships and explore the social and emotional impacts of pupils’ experiences of lockdown. The activities are themed around the RESTORE framework: Recognition, … Continue reading →
Rosie Marshall, a student at the Blue Coat School in Coventry, has won a competition run by anti-racism charity Show Racism the Red Card. Rosie won the Year 7-9 Creative Writing category of the charity’s 2020 school competition. Ged Grebby, … Continue reading →
Throughout recent years the UK has seen a worrying growth in violent crime – specifically knife crime. Official figures showed 2019 had the highest recorded knife crime cases in England and Wales since data collection began in 2010 [1]. Knife … Continue reading →