Schools' Peace Week Toolkit

SCHOOLS’ PEACE WEEK 2014 4th -8th August

TOOLKIT FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

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TOOLKIT FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS Table of contents page Acknowledgements 4 Schools’ Peace Week 2014 - Introduction 5 Toolkit - Ideas for Teachers and Students - ‘Design It’ Category 6-7 Toolkit - Ideas for Teachers and Students - ‘Speak It’ Category 8-9 Toolkit - Ideas for Teachers and Students - ‘Sing It’ Category 10 Toolkit - Ideas for Teachers and Students - ‘Dance It’ Category

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Toolkit - Ideas for Teachers and Students - ‘Live It’ Category 12-13 Peace Week Ambassador Information 14-15 Art4Peace Contest Information 16-17 ‘Sing it’ Contest – Information and Contest Criteria for Primary Category 18-19 ‘Sing it’ Contest – Information and Contest Criteria for Secondary Category 20-21 The Peace Foundation Information and Contact Details

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Peace Foundation would like to acknowledge the following supporters that assisted with the development of this year’s Schools’ Peace Week.

Sponsors:

• Lottery National Community Grant

• Disarmament Education United Nations Implementation Fund

• Global Future Charitable Trust Disarmament Education UN Implementation Fund

In addition, we would like to acknowledge the support of staff at The Peace Foundation and our valuable interns. Special thanks to:

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• Lisette Venema (Intern)

• Caroline Ambjoern (Intern)

• Jean-Baptiste Rufach (Intern)

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INTRODUCTION SCHOOL’S PEACE WEEK 2014 The Schools’ Peace Week 2014 aims to engage schools: teachers and students, in the work of peace education. Through peace education students will increase their understanding of conflict and peace issues as well as how to build peace on a national and international level.

This toolkit is designed to aid teachers with ideas in educating students about peace. We have given different suggestions of projects for students at different levels. If the teacher wants more information than what is in the Description Column, please refer to the Notes Column. This toolkit is meant to encourage and spark ideas amongst teachers and students.

There are no limitations! These ideas can be further developed or improved upon to suit your school and classroom. Let your creativity flow! And, most importantly, have fun!

N.B. Please remember to send photos with captions and a brief report of your activity or activities to The Peace Foundation so that we can put these on our website. Thank you.

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design it ...

Idea

Description

Level

Notes

Peace tree

Design a peace tree with every branch representing one reason why peace is important, alternatively put up peace messages.

Primary / Secondary

Use a dove shape as a template or some other peace symbol.

Paper cranes

Fold paper cranes.

Primary / Secondary

In commemoration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and remembering the millions of innocent victims, including Sadako Sasaki, students design a paper crane.

“World of Peace”

Create a world without war: paint, build, and design.

Secondary / Primary

Peace mural on a wall

Paint or write on a real wall what peace means. Why it is important?

Primary / Secondary

Prayer flags

Make Tibetan prayer flags to put up outside.

Secondary

Peace badges

Design your own peace badges.

Primary / Secondary

Chalk for peace

Paint schoolyard with sidewalk chalk

Primary / Secondary

Extra information: www.chalk4peace.org

Faces of peace

Draw and display portraits of people who are / have been important for peace.

Secondary

Gandhi

Earth project

Create the planet Earth using paper mache. Paint all the countries from around the world on the globe. Use ‘flagpins’ to label countries of significance.

Photos of an Earth Globe can be found at The Peace Foundation’s Facebook, produced for the 2014 Auckland International Cultural Festival in April.

Secondary / Primary

Students can put a put a ‘flagpin’ on their country of origin. A Swiss Ball is useful as the base structure for the globe.

The Earth Globe can be a feature of your Peace Week Cultural Festival. Guests can contribute their ‘flag-pins’ to the Globe.

“Wall of Peace”

Create an art exhibition.

Primary / Secondary

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Information about prayer flags: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ prayer_flags

design it ...

Idea

Description

Level

Notes

Class peace mural

The students can design and draw a peace mural. What ‘peace’ means to them.

Primary / Secondary

All class members contribute to the mural.

Face painting design

During one day of Peace Week, a team of

Primary / Secondary

Keep the face painting

students go around the school painting

designs simple. Take photos

faces with love hearts, peace signs, words

of individual and groups of

of peace, etc.

students. Display on classroom Peace Week noticeboards with or without captions.

Wearable recycling

Use recycled products to create wearable

Peace collage

Brainstorm ideas around a theme

Primary / Secondary

Peace project using computer graphic design

Create a ‘peace project’ through graphic

Secondary /

This can be a class or school

design. E.g. Design a graphic to go with

Primary

contest. Send winning entries

Primary / Secondary

art for a fashion contest.

Class or school wide project / contest.

the slogan: Change makers for Peace or /

to The Peace Foundation to

and Peacemakers for Change.

be considered for their new organizational branding initiative.

Human peace symbol

Use your class to create a human peace

Primary / Secondary

symbol. Take photos and place them on your school or / and class Peace Week noticeboard.

Peace banner

Peace passports

During one day of Peace Week students

Secondary

Think about a march into the

march with their banners displaying

local community

‘messages of peace’ … the voice of youth!

‘Honk for Peace!’

The student Peace Passport gets stamped

Primary

Peace Passports will need to be

once a Peace Week activity has been

provided for students before

completed. Have incentives for reaching

Peace Week begins.

specific targets E.g. 5 stamps, 8 stamps,10 stamps.

Peace book

Create an individual or class Peace Book

Primary

The Peace Book may be a visual

full of pictures and text. Challenge other

record with captions, of all the

classes to do the same.

class / school activities done before, during and after Peace Week relating to the theme.

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SPEAK IT ...

Idea

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Description

Level

Notes

Peace poem

An opportunity for students to voice their message or stories for peace.

Primary / Secondary

Have a “Speak Up for Peace” school assembly during Peace Week. One class entry to be presented at the assembly.

Peace slogans AND/OR quotes AND/OR messages

Research on peace slogans, quotes and messages.

Secondary / Primary

During each day of Peace Week put a new ‘peace quote’ on the classroom Peace Week noticeboard.

Exploring ‘peace’ with the teacher

What does ‘peace’ mean to you?

Research what ‘peace’ means to others.

Primary / Secondary

What does ‘peace’ mean for us as a class?

Peace movie

Create a movie as a class. Make sure the movie has a ‘peace’ theme. You may include other classes. Send your movie to The Peace Foundation.

Primary / Secondary

The Peace Foundation can publish the movie on a special YouTube channel and on the website for others to view.

Peace debate

Examples of topics: “We live in a peaceful world” “World peace is an illusion”

Secondary

Team competition. Who will succeed?

Negative or Affirmative?

Contact The Peace Foundation for certificates for the winning debating team.

Rules of debate: www.icanw.org/ resources/schools/classroom-debate/

write a petition and collect signatures in your school

In commemoration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and remembering the millions of innocent victims, students write a letter to their MPs asking them to work towards a nuclear free world.

Secondary

Alternatively, check out “Demand Zero” website and sign their petition: www.globalzero.org/demand-zero/ sign-the-petition.

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SPEAK IT ...

Idea Peace balloon extravaganza!

Description

Notes

Primary / Secondary

During a school assembly, let all the balloons go at the same time. Create a peace balloon extravaganza! Get the local newspaper in to do an article on this event.

Secondary

Excite others about what you are doing at your school during Peace Week. Encourage them to do the same. Make challenges with other schools. The Peace Foundation can share your posts.

Find someone in your community who can speak to your class or in a school assembly during Peace Week.

E.g. Student leaders from the local secondary school.

Speakers from The Peace Foundation are also available during Peace Week.

Primary / Secondary

Secondary school peer mediators can speak to the team of primary school peer mediators or / and at a school assembly.

Write a song for peace and share it

Write a song with the subject peace. The Peace Foundation can publish the song on a special YouTube channel and on the website for others to view.

Secondary / Primary

Example of a famous peace song: - John Lennon's song 'Imagine'

Write a peace speech for the UN

Imagine you are at the rostrum of the United Nations, and you have to do a speech for peace.

Secondary / Primary

Examples of famous speeches: - Nelson Mandela, 1994: - http://lc.cx/Yaz - Mahatma Gandhi, 1931: - http://lc.cx/YaK

Use social media to voice your ‘peace’ message

Guest speaker/s

Write your ‘peace’ message on a piece of paper and attach it to a helium balloon. Get other classes to do the same.

Level

-

Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram

Book with The Peace Foundation early if you want a speaker during Peace Week.

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SING IT ...

Idea Create a song for peace

Description

Level

Notes

Write a song and create a tune with

Primary /

The Peace Foundation can create a channel

an instrument or instruments. Have a

Secondary

on YouTube to publish all the peace song

school wide ‘peace’ song contest. The

videos. The videos can be published on a

finalists can play in a school assembly,

special page on the website and on the Cool

Gala day, family fun day or in the

Schools Facebook page.

local shopping mall. They can play

Inspiration tip: Use peace quotes in the song.

for the church, the staff of The Peace Foundation, and on the local radio

Examples peace songs: Nakita Turner, One

station. The finalists can also enter

Voice (Secondary): www.youtube.com/

the “Sing it’ Contest organised by The

watch?v=fQrCti-hqu0

Peace Foundation. Register online at

Titoki Peace Song (Primary): www.youtube.

www.peace.net.nz to download the

com/watch?v=iaby_WmMWXk

‘Sing it’ Contest Criteria.

Collect and play songs for peace

Create a school wide “Happy” song

Who wrote songs about peace

Secondary /

Play old and new peace songs in class during

and love? E.g. John Lennon, Bob

Primary

Peace Week. Write the messages from these

Marley. Think about the lyrics. What is

songs on the Peace Week classroom notice

the message?

board.

Create a school “Happy” song on

Primary /

Watch the Happy clip from Pharell Williams on

video. Make a video with all happy

Secondary

YouTube and the Auckland version of Happy.

students at different places. Sing this

Official clip: www.youtube.com/

song at assembly. Send this to The

watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM

Peace Foundation.

Auckland version: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Hb-ez1uziy8

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DANCE IT ...

IDEAS

DESCRIPTIONS

LEVEL

NOTES

Create a peace dance

Create a peace dance. This can be choreographed to a well-known song for peace or created to align with an original song for peace composed by a student at the school.

Primary / Secondary

Dance videos can be published on the YouTube channel and on The Peace Foundation website if submitted to The Peace Foundation.

Peace Dance Flash mob

Create a peace dance and make a flash mob in another place within the school community.

Secondary

Video the Flash Mob and submit this to The Peace Foundation to place on their website under 2014 Peace Week Activities.

Create a school wide “Happy” dance

Create a school “Happy” dance on video. Perform this at an assembly. Send this to The Peace Foundation.

Primary / Secondary

Refer to Pharell Williams “Happy” video clip on YouTube with over 260 million hits! https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM

Dance workshop

Organise a dance workshop.

Secondary

Hula Hoops for Peace

Ask as many students as possible to join a huge Hula Hoop routine in the playground. Sing a well known peace song while hulahooping. E.g. John Lennon’s “Imagine”.

Primary

Music Video

Create your own music video about peace.

Secondary

What would you do for Peace?

Film your dance for peace.

Secondary

Take photos and place these on the Peace Week notice board.

http://givepeaceadance.org/

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LIVE IT ...

Idea

Description

Level

Notes

Who will you make peace with?

Decide who you will make peace with. Create 3 steps to action this.

Primary / Secondary

Goal could be to action this during Peace Week.

Set a challenge for everyone in the school community; students, teachers and parents, to ‘make peace’ with someone during Peace Week.

Explanation about who will you make peace with: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=lTyrX4h3Kgg

Community event with Peace Week theme

Organise a school community event with the Peace Week theme as the focus. Food festival, assembly presentation, art exhibition, music concert, sports event, peace gala, games day, etc.

Primary / Secondary

Inspirations: International Cultural Festival

Fundraising for peace

Choose a charity organisation as a focus for a school wide fund-raising campaign. Why not choose The Peace Foundation? Students can organise a day for baking and selling cakes and sweets.

Primary / Secondary

Ideas: Make cupcakes/cake/biscuits with peace signs on top.

Peace volunteers day

At the peace volunteers day the students offer their services to help the local community in some positive way. As an alternative to voluntary helping in the community, two peer mediators per classroom can be allocated to help the teacher for the day.

Primary / Secondary

Examples: rubbish collecting, helping at a home for the elderly, weeding the community gardens, etc.

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LIVE IT ...

Idea

Description

Level

Notes

Family workshop

Plan and organise a workshop for parents where students are the teachers of peaceful conflict resolution skills. E.g. A peer mediators’ information and skills sharing evening for parents.

Secondary / Primary

Contact The Peace Foundation for more information about peaceful conflict resolution and peer mediation skills.

Peace Week shared lunch

Organise a lunch with your class where you can share the meal.

Primary

During the lunch: Share stories of occasions when you felt safe, peaceful and respected. What feelings are generated when you are in these moments? How does this contribute to well being?

Wear white day

During one day of Peace Week all teachers and students come to school dressed in white. During class or at an assembly, time is devoted to discuss the significance of ‘white for peace’ and the symbolic nature of this, the nature of peace and what this looks, sounds and feels like at school, at home, in the community, nationally and internationally.

Primary / Secondary

Design Peace Week T-shirt

Design a Peace Week T-Shirt. Teachers or / and mediators can wear special Peace Week T-shirts during Peace Week.

Primary / Secondary

White ribbons

White ribbons are a symbol of peace.

The White ribbons may be worn throughout Peace Week by students and teachers.

Primary / Secondary

Mufti Day

Dedicate one day during Peace Week to wearing mufti to celebrate ‘peace’ at school. In exchange for wearing what you want, each student contributes $2.00 to a school project fund or to a charity organisation such as The Peace Foundation.

Primary / Secondary

Mufti day can also be HUGS DAY. Have incentives for students to hug as many people as possible on this day.

Additional to the hug, they can also give an “I” statement which affirms the other person.

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PEACE WEEK AMBASSADOR Why become a Peace Week Ambassador?

If not you, then who? How will you make a difference? What we each do makes a difference and this is an opportunity to be more involved in helping raise awareness, celebrating diversity and promoting respectful relationships.

What is a Peace Week Ambassador?

A Peace Week Ambassador is a person who takes a leadership role in making Peace Week happen in their school and/or community. A volunteer opportunity, it is a chance to be more involved and engage others. Peace Week Ambassadors plan events, spread the word and encourage other people to participate. Peace Week Ambassadors interact with the Peace Foundation team and other ambassadors online. There may even be a chance for some Peace Week Ambassadors to tell their stories of involvement to a reporter.

Interested? Here’s how to become a Peace Week Ambassador!

All you have to do is contact us. We’ll help you get started and give you the tools you need. We have posters you can download and distribute. You can download posters and information to share with your friends and whanau, or maybe you want to get creative and have an event or show in your community.

Once you commit to being a Peace Week Ambassador, we’ll send you an invite to join our private moderated Ambassador Facebook group. Here, you can connect with other ambassadors, share ideas and talk about how Peace Week is going. We’ll be part of this group, too, as mentors.

We’re counting on Peace Week Ambassadors to take charge and spread the word about Peace Week. The Peace Week campaign is no more than an idea without excited people to turn it into action. You can print out and put up posters. Hand out information and resources about Peace Week and ways to promote positive relationships and Peace Education.

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You can still be an Ambassador even if you are not good in public speaking. You can leave information in a communal space where people will see it or pick it up. You just need to care, want to give your time, to help others learn, and have a desire to make a difference in your school community.

Share your thoughts Share your thoughts and or stories with us at The Peace Foundation and with the people around you. Sharing your story isn’t just about activities you are planning or why you enjoy Peace Week. It could be about what is unique about your community and how you are making a difference in it. It’s about connecting and raising awareness. Telling your story also means being willing and able to listen to other people’s stories. This is a powerful action that we can all take part in.

Spread the word online We have a Facebook page, and we hope you’ll interact with us online. What we really hope, though, is for you to involve your network in Peace Week. Your social network is even more important than ours because these are the people who surround you; the people in your community and the people who can help you make a difference. Start a conversation, post your own status, and share our resources with your online community.

Check out the ‘Peace Week’ page We have even more ways to get involved and spread the word on The Peace Foundation webpage. Check it out for downloadable posters, additional resources and more information.

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Arts4peace contest INFORMATION Sponsors The ‘Arts4Peace Contest’ is sponsored by The Peace Foundation, DEUNIF, Lottery Grants Board, and Global Future Charitable Trust. This contest falls under this year’s Schools’ Peace Week in which the theme is Arts4Peace: Design it, Speak it, Sing it, Dance it, LIVE IT!

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Contest Period: The artwork is to be submitted on August 1, 2014. Late submissions will not be accommodated.

Who Can Enter: Students who are between 5 and 19 years of age can enter this contest, and it is open to all students in New Zealand.

How to Enter: You can draw, paint, sketch, use pens, pencils, crayons, charcoal, oil, acrylic paint or watercolour to create your artwork. Be creative, and use your imagination to show a world free of violence, without wars, without fear, without bullying. Imagine a peaceful world! The size limitation is A2 (42.0 x 59.4cm) for every artwork.

Where to send: Once completed, you can send your artwork along with your name, age, school name and brief description of your work to: PO Box 8055, Symonds Street, Auckland, 1150. Alternately, you can hand the art work in person at our physical address: Level 2, 128 Khyber Pass Road, Grafton, Auckland 1013 or take a picture/scan of the art work and send it to our email address: peaceweek@peacefoundation.org.nz Once your artwork is received, your family, friends and anyone else will be able to vote for your work via our Facebook page www.facebook.com/PeaceFoundationNZ

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Parents and Teachers: Children between the ages of 5 and 12 will need to have their parents or teachers help them with their submissions.

Contest Prizes: There will be 4 winners in each age category (ages 5-8, ages 9-12 and ages 13-19), and all the artwork entries will be judged using the same criteria: creativity, composition, theme, technique and Facebook votes. The judges will be experts in the field of Arts and will take the Facebook votes into consideration for their final decision. The winners will be announced during this year’s Peace Week on 9th August in an award ceremony where the art pieces will be displayed. The reception will be in an Art Gallery in Auckland where the pieces will be exhibited in the youth wing. The 12 nominees will be contacted a week prior to the award ceremony.

Those who cannot attend will still receive their award and will be able to see their artwork display in a photo album on our website. For those who cannot attend we suggest to take a picture and send it to us to be displayed on our website with the other winners.

For age groups 5-8 and 9-12, the winners will receive wonderful art supplies. For age group 13-19, there will be cash prizes of $300 for first place, $250 for second place, $200 for third place, and $100 for fourth place.

Each winning entry will also receive a certificate from The Peace Foundation. Additionally, all winning artwork will be reproduced in a 2015 Peace Calendar, which each winner will receive. The launch of the Peace Calendar will be on 21 September 2014, during the International Day of Peace and the 2014 Auckland City for Peace Awards Ceremony.

Copyright: All art works must be original, and The Peace Foundation retains all copyright of the materials submitted.

Conditions: The Peace Foundation shall not be responsible for any loss or damage that may occur by entering this contest and The Peace Foundation reserves the right to make changes to the rules of the contest without prior notification.

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SCHOOLS’ PEACE WEEK 2014 4th -8th August

‘Sing it’ Contest PRIMARY School Category The Peace Foundation challenges creative, talented musicians and singers in your school to create an original song for peace. Submit your ‘peace song’ video and lyrics to The Peace Foundation by Friday 1st August 2014.

The top entry will receive: • A FREE Cool Schools Peer Mediation Programme training and resources for their school. A package worth $1650. Refer to School Programmes on the website: www.peace.net.nz

The top two entries will receive: • An invitation to perform at the Secondary Schools’ Peace Symposium 2014 on Friday 15th August held at the Western Springs Garden Community Hall in Auckland. Travel expenses not included.

INTERESTED? Register online at www.peace.net.nz and download the ‘Sing it’ Contest Criteria – Primary School Category

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‘Sing it’ Contest PRIMARY School CRITERIA As a part of the Schools’ Peace Week 2014, the Peace Foundation is challenging musically talented primary students to write a song for peace. Let’s hear what our youth have to say on the topic of ‘peace’ through the power of music and song.

The top entry will receive a FREE Cool School Peer Mediation Programme training and resources worth $1650. Please look on The Peace Foundation website under School Programmes for more information on Cool Schools. www.peace.net.nz. The top two entries will also receive an invite to perform at the 2014 Secondary Schools’ Peace Symposium on Friday 15th of August 2014 being held at the Western Springs Garden Community Hall, Auckland. Travel expenses not included.

There will be other guest performers featuring at the 2014 Secondary Schools’ Peace Symposium.

Contest Criteria • The purpose of the song is to communicate an inspiring ‘peace message’ to others.

• Lyrics and melody must be original.

• Please give the song a relevant title.

• Songs must be submitted as videos to publish on the peace foundation’s website.

• Recommended format is mp4, avi, 3gp and flv. Please email to: peaceweek@peacefoundation.org.nz • Songs entries are encouraged to have a limit of 20 Mbytes.

• The Peace Foundation retains all copyright of the materials submitted.

All entries exceeding 20Mbytes, please place on a CD or USB stick and send to:

‘Sing it’ Contest – Primary School Category The Peace Foundation PO Box 8055 Symonds Street Auckland 1150 Alternately, you can hand the work in person at our physical address: The Peace Foundation - Level 2, 128 Khyber Pass Road, Grafton, Auckland 1013.

• Written lyrics (Word document) of each song need to be included in the file sent to The Peace Foundation.

Please include the name/s of the composer/s and the date the song was composed.

• All entries must be submitted by Friday 1st August, 2014.

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‘Sing it’ Contest SECONDARY School Category The Peace Foundation challenges creative, talented musicians and singers in your school to create an original song for peace. Submit your ‘peace song’ video and lyrics to The Peace Foundation by Friday 1st August 2014.

The top entry will receive: • A FREE LtPM (Leadership through Peer Mediation) secondary school training and resources . A package worth $1650. Refer to School Programmes on the website: www.peace.net.nz

The top three entries will receive: • An invitation to perform at the Secondary Schools’ Peace Symposium 2014 on Friday 15th August held at the Western Springs Garden Community Hall in Auckland. Travel expenses not included.

INTERESTED? Register online at www.peace.net.nz and download the ‘Sing it’ Contest Criteria – Secondary School Category

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‘Sing it’ Contest SECONDARY School CRITERIA As a part of the Schools’ Peace Week 2014, the Peace Foundation is challenging musically talented secondary students to write a song for peace. Let’s hear what our youth have to say on the topic of ‘peace’ through the power of music and song.

The top entry will receive a FREE LtPM (Leadership through Peer Mediation) secondary school training and resources worth $1650. Please look on The Peace Foundation website under School Programmes for more information on LtPM. www.peace.net.nz. The top three entries will receive an invite to perform at the 2014 Secondary Schools’ Peace Symposium on Friday 15th of August 2014 being held at the Western Springs Garden Community Hall, Auckland. Travel expenses not included.

There will be other guest performers featuring a the 2014 Secondary Schools’ Peace Symposium.

Contest Criteria • The purpose of the song is to communicate an inspiring ‘peace message’ to others.

• • • • • •

Lyrics and melody must be original.

Please give the song a relevant title.

Songs must be submitted as videos to publish on the peace foundation’s website.

Recommended format is mp4, avi, 3gp and flv. Please email to: peaceweek@peacefoundation.org.nz Songs entries are encouraged to have a limit of 20 Mbytes.

The Peace Foundation retains all copyright of the materials submitted.

All entries exceeding 20Mbytes, please place on a CD or USB stick and send to:

‘Sing it’ Contest - Secondary School Category The Peace Foundation PO Box 8055 Symonds Street Auckland 1150 Alternately, you can hand the work in person at our physical address: The Peace Foundation - Level 2, 128 Khyber Pass Road, Grafton, Auckland 1013.

• Written lyrics (Word document) of each song need to be included in the file sent to The Peace Foundation.

Please include the name/s of the composer/s and the date the song was composed.

• All entries must be submitted by Friday 1st August, 2014.

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The peace foundation The Foundation for Peace Studies Aotearoa/New Zealand Inc. with operating name as The Peace Foundation aims to promote peaceful relationships among people of all ages and cultures from personal to global, through education, research and action. It has taught effective communication, peaceful conflict resolution, mediation, disarmament and general peace building to families, schools, workplaces and communities through a range of programmes and services since 1975.

Among its annual activities is Schools' Peace Week, held every August, to promote peace education in schools. This week also commemorates Hiroshima Day on 6 August, and Nagasaki Day on 9 August to educate people of the consequences of nuclear war and to campaign for a world free of nuclear weapons. Schools' Peace Week started in 2000 in New Zealand as The Peace Foundation's contribution to the United Nations' International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for Children of the World. Each year, a theme is chosen to celebrate Peace Week based on suggestions from schools.

Contact details:

The Peace Foundation Level 2, 128 Khyber Pass Road Grafton, Auckland 1023 Aotearoa-New Zealand PO Box 8055 Symonds Street Auckland 1150 Aotearoa-New Zealand Phone: +64-9-373-2379 Email: peace@peacefoundation.org.nz Facebook: www.facebook.com/PeaceFoundationNZ

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SCHOOLS’ PEACE WEEK 2014 4th -8th August

Register online at

www.peace.net.nz The Peace Foundation. Level 2, 128 Khyber Pass Road, Grafton, Auckland 1023, Aotearoa-New Zealand. PO Box 8055, Symonds Street, Auckland 1150, Aotearoa-New Zealand Phone: +64-9-373-2379, Email: peace@peacefoundation.org.nz Facebook: www.facebook.com/PeaceFoundationNZ

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