| Date | Event’s name | Description of event | Activities/ Resources/ Videos |
| AUGUST | | | |
| 12th August | International Youth Day | International Youth Day (IYD) is an awareness day designated by the United Nations. The purpose of the day is to draw attention to a given set of cultural and legal issues surrounding youth. | · Films: Becoming 13, I Will Find a Way, Hannah’s Story
· International Youth Film Festival – students recording their own videos |
| SEPTEMBER | | | |
| 5thSeptember | International Charity Day | Every year, charities all over the world help to save and improve people’s lives, fighting disease, protecting children, and giving hope to many thousands of people. International Day of Charity serves to increase and enhance social responsibility across the entire world, increasing our support for charitable causes and bringing everyone together in solidarity. | · Films: The Help
· Bake sales, Recycling for a cause, Book fair, Sponsored litter pick |
| 8thSeptember | International Literacy Day | Each year September 8th marks UNESCO’s International Literacy day, raising awareness globally on the issues surrounding adult and child literacy | · Library: Display recommendations from teachers filled in
· Kahoot – play |
| 10thSeptember | World Suicide Prevention Day | World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD), on 10 September, is organized by the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP). WHO has been a co-sponsor of the day. The purpose of this day is to raise awareness around the globe that suicide can be prevented. | · Films: Suicidal: In Our Own Words-documentary-channel 4
· Jay Asher- Thirteen Reasons Why-novel reading
· Light a candle in a window to remember suicide victims
· Students could create presentations to inform community members of current research in suicide prevention
Run a suicide awareness training session. The organization, Living Works, runs programs like A.S.I.S.T. – Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training – or Safe Talk where students learn about how to get help or support friends. Other organizations also offer various informational programs – ie Jack.org
https://www.suicideinfo.ca/resource/thirteen-reasons-why-lesson-plan/ |
| 21stSeptember | International Day of Peace | Established in 1981 by unanimous United Nations resolution, Peace Day provides a globally shared date for all humanity to commit to Peace above all differences and to contribute to building a Culture of Peace. | · Films: Mandela: The Living Legend, Everyday Rebellion, Love & Solidarity, Selma, Waltz with Bashir, Shake Hands with the Devil
http://mariamthemovie.com/ |
| 26thSeptember | European Day of Languages | The European Year of Languages 2001, jointly organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union, was successful in involving millions of people across 45 participating countries. Its activities celebrated linguistic diversity in Europe and promoted language learning. | · Library lesson: nonfiction article importance of studying languages. Focus on careers and opportunity.
· Films: subtitled film: The Idol |
| 27th – 3rdOctober | Banned Books Week | Banned Books Week (September 27 – October 3, 2020) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. | · Library lessons: censorship non- fiction article
· Assembly: Freedom to read focus
· House competition: Decorating classroom doors based on a banned/challenged book
· Choose a banned/challenged books for your class, whether it’s a short children’s story, a passage from a novel or an entire book you’ve been reading with the class
· Banned book debate- Split the class into two groups. Have one side argue for the freedom of schools to read often-challenged books and the other side to argue why students reading materials should be screened and approved by teachers
https://www.freedomtoread.ca/ |
| OCTOBER | | | |
| 1st October | National Poetry Day | National Poetry Day generates an explosion of activity nationwide, thousands of amazing events across the UK – in schools, libraries, bookshops and hospitals, on buses, trains and boats – all celebrating poetry’s power to bring people together.
2020 theme is Vision. | · Poetry competition: write a poem with the theme ‘Vision’.
· Paper Bag Poetry, Poetry Speed Date, Paint Chip Poetry, Black out poetry
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/ |
| 10thOctober | World Mental Health Day | The day is celebrated at the initiative of the World Federation of Mental Health and WHO supports this initiative through raising awareness on mental health issues using its strong relationships with the Ministries of health and civil society organizations across the globe.
| · Films: A Beautiful Mind, Silver Linings Playbook, Inside Out, Still Alice
· Digital posters
· Mindfulness exercises
· Meet your students where they spend much of their time—on social media—to discuss the topic of mental health |
| 15th October | World Values Days | The theme of Values in Action had just been chosen for this year’s World Values Day when the coronavirus crisis unexpectedly exploded and confronted us with a life-and-death issue that now threatens every community on the planet. | https://www.worldvaluesday.com/lets-celebrate-our-valuesheroes/
@ValuesDay |
| 16thOctober | World Food Day | World Food Day is a day of action dedicated to tackling global hunger. Held annually on 16th October, people from around the world come together to declare their commitment to eradicate worldwide hunger from our lifetime. | · Films: Heartbeat, Wasted, How to Feed the World, Just Eat It, Food Chains, The Hidden Costs of Hamburgers, The Garden, Waste, Food INC
· Garden project
· Start a Seed Preservation Project
· Farm visit |
| 17th October | International Day for the Eradication of Poverty | The commemoration of October 17 each year demonstrates how we can achieve greater participation by enabling people from all walks of life to come together to respect the human rights and dignity of people living in poverty. | · Films: Poor Kids (BBC)
· Lecture and Debates
· Students could organise a rally, walk, march or sleep-out in your local area to raise awareness about an issue or to call for government action
· Performance, concert or screening on a poverty-related issue. |
| All month | Black History Month | Black history month was first launched in London in the 1980s, where the aim was for the local community to challenge racism and educate themselves and others about the British history that was not taught in schools. | · Library display: Novels and non-fiction
· Library Lessons: non-fiction extracts/articles
· Assembly: student voice promote Black History event and poetry/spoken word performance
· Films: The Butler, The Help, Hidden Figures
· Student Voice Event: main hall festival celebrating food, music, writers |
| All month | Buy Nothing New Month | It is the global movement for collective, conscientious consumption. It’s a little idea that started in Melbourne and is spreading to the Netherlands and USA. Let’s bring it to our countries too. | · Films: Crazy Rich Asians, The True Cost |