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Assembly idea: A Global Citizenship assembly calendar
The calendar provides ideas for celebrating
specific days related to Global Citizenship throughout the year.
We hope that our suggestions will give you a starting point from
which you can develop ideas to suit your own educational situation.
Although there are many possibilities for a calendar of this type,
our selection is both small and, while all of the ideas are relevant
to Global Citizenship, fairly arbitrary. The entries in the calendar
are brief, and will require additional research.
We have intentionally not included religious festivals because
there is a wealth of information available elsewhere already. We
have also not included saint's days but certainly, there is much
scope to celebrate the national saints; in the UK these are St George
(23 April), St Andrew (30 November), St David (1 March) and St Patrick
(17 March). There are also other important national days in every
country that could be recognised, such as that to celebrate Robert
Burns in Scotland (25 January).
You will see the inclusion of some celebration days that reflect
the themes of Global Citizenship (marked with an asterisk). Although
a particular month has been suggested for these, the dates are not
set - use any which are convenient to you. Each celebration day
could either be confined to assembly time, or extended for the entire
day, with activities to reflect the theme. If you would like to
celebrate these days, in addition to the notes given in the calendar
there are many ways this could be done. Here are some suggestions.
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Use the assembly or day to concentrate on exploring one or
more people, events or issues that illustrate the focus of the
day.
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Draw on the school community for individuals who could give
advice and enrich the assembly or day, for example, people giving
testimonies, a storyteller or performer, a local expert such
as a Development Education Centre worker or local NGO worker.
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Use an extended assembly or a day to run a simulation game,
or have a quiz or debate.
Another idea is to roll the days into a Global Citizenship Week
with events going on for all or part of each day. You could
take one theme of Global Citizenship each day, such as 'social
justice and equity', or 'appreciation of diversity'. Alternatively,
concentrate on one topic within a theme; for example, for social
justice and equity, concentrate on the UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, with a different 'right' looked at each
day for a week. Alternatively, each day of the week could be
used to profile five people who worked for social justice and
equity.
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