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Learning from the Victorians (104.37 kB)

Before Victorian times very few children in England and Wales went to school. Poor children often had to work to help feed the family. The only schools for poor children were charity and church schools or ‘dame’ schools set up by unqualified teachers in their own homes

A girl stands in front of empty granaries at the village of Tangaba in northwestern Niger, where inhabitants ate leaves and grass to survive [Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

Poverty stops children going to school (61.60 kB)

Board game highlighting some of the issues which prevent children in the developing world getting a proper education.

My friend needs a teacher (151.98 kB)

Decorate a cut out figure to represent a teacher for children deprived of schooling. Initiated as part of Global Action Week, April 24-30 2006.

Send my friend to school (151.98 kB)

An outline “friend” or “buddy” for use in the Send My Friend To School campaign - KS2, KS3

Frida, 9, outside her house in Chumbivilcas province, Peru [Simon Rawles]

Walking to school (2.02 MB)

Powerpoint which enables your class to meet their contemporaries in Honduras, Sudan, the Philippines and Zambia, and compare their journeys to school

Published on 08/04/2008, last updated on 08/04/2008

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