Poverty 2 Prosperity - Challenge Pack

Taking the Challenge Packs global Poverty 2 Prosperity www.poverty2prosperity.eu Poverty 2 Prosperity has been designed to achieve real change and by promoting ways to achieve genuine active citizenship within and outside the classroom, in school life and into the wider community. The Challenge Packs and website will present opportunities for teachers and pupils to share examples of creative and sustainable solutions that have been formulated in UK, Bulgaria, Hungary and Ghana. As well as hosting all Challenge Pack lesson plans and supporting resources, the website will also serve as a sharing platform for schools and students. The ability for young people to share and communicate needs, opinions, and attitudes towards global development issues to stakeholders and decision- makers will help bring about active change. Following work on the Challenge Packs, each school should generate their own School Development Charter . Schools can best decide how to do this. For example there may be time given during form time or within a Citizenship lesson so students can work collaboratively to come up with some ‘Charter’ suggestions. These can then be put forward for a vote during a school assembly so that only the best ideas are selected to upload onto the website. Another way of doing the vote is to select a special committee of students who decide between themselves which are the best ‘Charter’ ideas. The final School Development Charter will contain ideas about individual, school, local, or national actions that could be initiated. These might be pledges, campaigns, initiatives or new ways of doing things. Student led active citizenship can begin … Teachers can register on the website and create a profile for their own school. They will then obtain a user name and password so that they are able to upload ‘Charter’ ideas and share them with other registered schools, from the UK, Bulgaria, Hungary and Ghana. 8