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In
this section you can find ideas and suggestions on how to
take action on different issues of social justice and human rights.
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Win an amazing prize!
www.howdoyousquashyours.co.uk
To get the nation squashing
their empty cartons before recycling, we’re asking you to show us: how do you squash yours? We’ve
launched a YouTube competition to search for the most imaginative
way to squash milk and juice cartons before recycling!
From sitting on them,
flattening them with a space hopper, to the local rugby team
squashing them in a scrum…check out
these YouTube videos to see how other people squash their Tetra
Pak cartons!
Squashing your cartons
frees up space in carton collection banks, recycling bags and
boxes, making it easier to recycle your cartons.
This means we can get at least three times more cartons in the
bins and collection vehicles if they are squashed – taking
trucks off the road, which is better for the environment!
Show us how you squash your paper-based cartons, such as those
made by Tetra Pak, and you could be in with a chance of winning
either: a ‘chance of a lifetime’ place on an exciting international
environmental adventure – from a wildlife conservation
trip with elephants in South Africa to volunteering with turtles
in
Panama or Eco TV, 50 hot DVDs and a supply of wine or smoothies in Tetra
Pak cartons!
The best bit? The winner gets to choose which prize they want!
Check out our handy
video with everything you need to know about how to win the competition.
You’ve got until 1st November
2009, when the ‘top ten’ will be
short-listed. The short-listed videos will be uploaded onto this
site for the public to vote for the winner!
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Help to reduce your Global
Footprint and that of your school and
family by getting active
'A
footprint means pressing down and global means world, so 'global
footprint' means pressing
down on the world and we don't want to
press too hard' (child's definition of a Global Footprint)
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Find
out about the Global Dimension
Find
out about the global dimension by visiting our new Global Portal
for students
and teachers.
See the global
grid or click
on Global
Home for much more.
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New
Poverty Game from DfID
Click
here to have a go at the new DfID game exploring
the issue of Global Poverty.
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The
Better World Campaign
More and more young people are starting their education
lacking the fundamental skills of speaking and listening.
When children start out in life lacking these skills, the effects can follow
them right
through their development and even to job recruitment. Employers say that many
university leavers lack the necessary teamwork, leadership and communication
skills.
Our research showed that less than 50% of young people felt
that adults were listening to them and acting on what they’d said.
www.btbetterworld.com
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See the Get Active project for young people’s voices to
be heard when
the UN reviews England’s implementation of the Rights of
the Child.
For
more information visit www.crae.org.uk
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DubbleClick, design
a game competition
This is your chance
to create a dubbly exciting internet-based computer game and have
it turned into reality by a professional games designer!
Your challenge is
to come up with a game that inspires players to get on the case
for Fairtrade and help change the world, chunk by chunk! Fairtrade
guarantees a fair deal for farmers in developing countries, so
they can cover their costs and have a decent standard of living.
The winner will have
their game concept turned into a real game by professional games
designer at Atticmedia. You will also get to visit the studio
to see the process in action and approve the design of your creation!
Plus, two lucky runners up will get a professionally designed
and framed static screen from their game, so you can see a character
or scene from your game turned into a real design.
So, click here to get designing on the Dubble!
www.dubbleclick.co.uk
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Order
a "Save - a - flush" Bag
“On average, people flush the toilet 5.2 times
a day.”
Save-a-flush is designed
for use in toilet cisterns and saves one litre of water (by displacement)
per flush. It does this without impairing the proper working of
the cistern or harming the plumbing or effecting water quality.
The Save-a-flush device contains super absorbent polymer and silica
sand, which absorbs water when it is placed in the toilet cistern.
Please note that if
you live in a house or flat built after 2000, we advise you not
to fit the Save-a-flush in your toilet cistern. Toilets fitted after
2000 tend to have a low-level flush, using only six litres of water,
which is already water efficient. The toilet may not flush properly
if a Save-a-flush is fitted in these toilets. All toilets fitted
in houses/flats before 2000 are normally flushed using nine or seven
and a half litres of water and in these cases fitting a Save-a-flush
is an effective way of saving water.
Please
download a form to order your "Save a Flush" bag
For more information visit http://waterwise.fortune-cookie.com/general/save-a-flush/
or http://www.save-a-flush.co.uk/
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Western Sahara Human Rights
Tamek Ali Salem, an Amnesty International
prisoner of conscience was interviewed by students from three local
schools on 21st Feb at the Town Hall.
Click
here to find out more and make an appeal to the UN Secretary-General
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Find
out how you can take action on Fairtrade
issues.
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"Lines
in the sand"
Find
out how you can copy a project where different schools in the borough
took action.
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Immobilise
www.immobilise.com
The Police have asked
that schools encourage students to make use of this web site. Here
you can register you expensive Xmas presents such as mobile phones,
MP3 Players, bikes, cameras etc. free of charge so that if they
are recovered following a theft they can be returned.
The police often recover
a stash of stolen goods but are unable to prosecute the 'owner'
or return them because they are unable to identify the owner. If
they are stolen (e.g. during a mugging), the owner may well be a
witness.
Download
a poster
How it works (Word doc)
Register your items (Word
doc)
Thanks to Ian Findlay
Family Support Advisory Teacher
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