United Nations Universal Children’s Day was established in 1954 and is celebrated on November 20th each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children’s welfare.
Since 1990, Universal Children’s Day also marks the anniversary of the date that the UN General Assembly adopted both the declaration and the convention on children’s rights.
As an organisation that works with children and young people, we feel that it’s important that days like this happen so everyone can play important parts in making the lives of children better in their communities, speak and work with children and young people to make their voices heard and valuing the role that children play in our lives. As OppNotts, we will always advocate, promote and celebrate children and work hard to make Nottingham the best place it can be for young people to live and learn!
Anti-Bullying Week is taking place this week, coordinated by the Anti-Bullying Alliance. Anti-Bullying Week shines a spotlight on bullying and encourages all children, teachers and parents to act against bullying throughout the year.
The theme this year is ‘Power for Good’ with the following key aims:
To support children and young people to use their Power for Good– by understanding the ways in which they are powerful and encouraging individual and collective action to stop bullying and create the best world possible.
To help parents and carers to use their Power for Good– through supporting children with issues relating to bullying and working together with schools to stop bullying.
To encourage all teachers, school support staff and youth workers to use their Power for Good– by valuing the difference they can make in a child’s life, and taking individual and collective action to prevent bullying and create safe environments where children can thrive.
How can you get involved in Anti-Bullying Week 2016?
If you are a school or college, register for Anti-Bullying Week updates by joining the free ABA School or College Network.
Access our free Anti-Bullying Week resources including lesson plans, assemblies and top tips.
Tuesday saw the launch of Nottingham’s new Looking After Each Other campaign with the students at Primary Parliament being part of the publication of Nottingham’s “A-to-Z of Kind Words” – a thesaurus’s worth of great words and phrases which you can use every day to say something supportive to your peers, family or even a complete stranger!
That’s what Primary Parliament did. The video below shows pupils from Southglade Primary in Bestwood walking from the Council House to Angel Row Library and giving their Kind Words, written on colourful head speech-bubbles, out to members of the public who they met on the way! Click the link below to see the amazing reactions of total strangers when you say something kind to them!
