Assembly for ages 5-7: Send ALL My Friends to School 2014

How many children around the world are missing out on school? 24 million 45 million There are millions of children around the world who are missing out on school. Question 1: How many children in the world are missing out on school? 24 million 45 million 57 million. Answer = 57 million children are missing out on school. Find more activities like this go to: www.sendmyfriend.org/resources Photo: Kingsbury School 57 million

This is how life is for Lucy. What’s the story? Imagine living in a place where having a disability means you can’t get to school. This is how life is for Lucy. Lucy is nine years old and lives in Kenya. Kenya is a country in Africa. Lucy has polio and cannot walk very far. She wants to go to school but she can’t make the journey there. For detailed stories go to: www.sendmyfriend.org/resources. Photo: Arjun Kohli/Arete Stories/GCE UK Lucy is eleven years old. She lives in Kenya. She has polio which affects her right leg. Photo: Arjun Kohli/Arete Stories/ ActionAid

There is no transport for Lucy to travel the long distance to school. What’s the story? There is no transport for Lucy to travel the long distance to school. So Lucy stays at home and helps with the housework. Here she is with her family. For detailed stories go to: www.sendmyfriend.org/resources. Photo: Arjun Kohli/Arete Stories/GCE UK Lucy is eleven years old. She lives in Kenya. She has polio which affects her right leg. Photo: Arjun Kohli/Arete Stories/ ActionAid

Does anyone know who this person is? Ade talking to pupils at Southern Road Primary School in East London. Photo: Garry Crompton/Southern Road Primary School What’s the story? Does anyone know who this person is? He was also born in Africa. In a country called Nigeria. He got polio when he was three years old. Soon after his family moved to Britain and he went to school in London. Today he is a paralympic athlete and TV presenter. Here he is talking to pupils in at Southern Road Primary School. Now do you know who he is? This is Ade Adeptitan. Ade is a paralympic athlete and TV presenter. He says, if he had grown up in Nigeria life would have been very different.

Ade went back to his primary school in East London to say thank you. Ade and pupils joining the Send ALL My Friends to School campaign. Photo: Garry Crompton/Southern Road Primary School What’s the story? Ade went back to his primary school in East London to say thank you. Thank you to all his teachers for helping him with his disability and for giving him the gift of education. He wants everyone to join him to Send ALL My Friends to School in 2014. Find out more about Ade’s journey by watching the campaign film: www.sendmyfriend.org.

How many children who are missing out on school have a disability? 4 million 11 million How many children who don’t go to school have a disability? 4 million children 11 million children 24 million children. Answer = 24 million children. This is more than the populations of London, Glasgow, Cardiff, Birmingham. Manchester, Liverpool, and Belfast combined. Find more facts on the Education and Disability factsheet: www.sendmyfriend.org/resources. Photo: Arjun Kohli/Arete Stories/ActionAid 24 million Lucy is eleven years old. She lives in Kenya. She has polio which affects her right leg. Photo: Arjun Kohli/Arete Stories/ ActionAid

Linh is from Vietnam. Vietnam is a country in Asia. Why now? In 2000 world leaders promised that all children would go to school by 2015. Linh’s story Linh is from Vietnam. Vietnam is a country in Asia. She is lucky because she lives near to her school and her mum and dad carry her there. Linh is seven years old and has a paralyzed leg. What will happen as Linh gets older? If Linh had a wheelchair she could continue going to school. Photo: Oxfam Linh is seven years old. She lives in Vietnam. She is being carried by her mum to school. Linh has a paralysed leg. Photo: Oxfam

Photo: Georgina Cranston/SightSavers Difasi is eight years old. He lives in Uganda. He has been blind since he was born. Photo: Georgina Cranston/SightSavers Why now? Difasi’s story Difasi is nine years old. He lives in Uganda. Uganda is a country is Africa. Difasi used to go to school but his parents stopped paying because he wasn’t getting the help he needed. He has been blind since he was born. When he went to school, there weren’t any books or trained teachers to help him. Difasi stays at home on the farm and helps with the housework. He wants to be a doctor. Photo: Georgina Cranston/SightSavers

Circles of influence What can we do? How can we remind world leaders to make sure that ALL children have an education by 2015 ? These circles show how we can influence people, starting with our family, school and even the Prime Minister. You can send your messages to your MP and ask her or him to pass them to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister can try to persuade world leaders to spend more money on education. We’d like you to get really creative and make the biggest paper chain of buddies ever. As a class, think about how your buddy paper chain will represent ALL the world’s children.

Photo: Richard Baker/Oxfam Lynne Featherstone, MP visiting Rhodes Avenue Primary School in 2013. Photo: Richard Baker/Oxfam What can we do? This is a photo of children from Rhodes Avenue Primary School meeting their local MP, Lynne Featherstone. They wrote messages on their buddies and decided to hold an event at their school to make sure she got their message to make sure all children go to school. You could hold special events and activities in school for pupils, teachers, parents and your MP. Publicise your work in the local newspaper using our press pack: www.sendmyfriend.org/speak-up. Photo: Richard Baker/Oxfam

1. What story do you want to tell? Think of ideas or a message that you want to say to world leaders. Then make a buddy, you’ll find ready made templates like this one in your school’s activity pack. Make your buddies big so there is room to write asking world leaders to send All our friends to school. Make your buddies stand out with colours, glitter, stickers and fabric.

2. Cut out your buddy Add images to the gallery and get a certificate for taking part: www.sendmyfriend.org/action-ideas. Photo: Camille Shah/Kingsbury High School

What can we do? Make paper buddies to show all children out of school. Write messages on your buddies asking world leaders to Send All our Friends to School. Send your buddies to your MP by the end of the summer. Persuade your MP to give your buddies to the Prime Minister. Persuade the Prime Minister to influence world leaders to make sure ALL children go to school. Make sure you record your school’s participation on our online totaliser: www.sendmyfriend.org/totaliser. Photo: Camille Shah/Kingsbury High School

End Let’s join Linh, Difasi, Lucy and Ade in the biggest campaign ever and send ALL our friends to school. Photo: Stag Lane Junior School, Harrow