Winner of Global Dimension Teacher’s choice Award 2022. Building on the remarkable success of the first edition, the Peace Education Network are delighted to present the second edition of Teach Peace. In Teach Peace you will find ten assemblies, follow-up activities, resources, prayers, and reflections on peace and peacemaking for 5-12 year olds. Whether we are Remembering for Peace, flying a kite for Nao Roz , or reflecting on the witness of Austrian peacemaker Franz Jägerstätter the school year is full of opportunities to use this pack. Teach Peace will help ensure peace is a key theme in our children’s education and help you to celebrate peace and peacemakers in your school.

In this Teach Peace lesson from World Beyond War, Learners will be introduced to the concepts of direct, structural, and cultural violence. They will think critically and reflect on the different types of violence present in different contexts. Citizenship and action | Talking and listening

This Teach Peace lesson from Child Rights International Network (CRIN) invites learners to explore poetry on a citizenship theme. Potent Whisper is a London based Spoken Word artist. The lesson introduces his piece, The Rhyming Guide to Joining the Army!, and gives students the opportunity to respond to it as unseen poetry. The poem also raises important questions about under-18s recruitment to the armed forces and the way it is promoted to young people. Creative expression | Citizenship and action

Teach Peace is about relationships at every level, and one is our personal relationship with nature and the earth. This lesson asks learners what relationship they want with nature. They will visit a natural space and prepare a display to celebrate nature on their doorstep. Learn about being an Eco School at eco-schools.org.uk STEM | Religion and ethics | Creative expression

A Teach Peace lesson from Protection Approaches and Circles of Salam. During this lesson, learners will consider how anti-Muslim hate, Islamophobia, and other forms of identity-based violence occur in society through the exploration of a personal story. Learners will then consider how we strengthen our schools and communities by making them a more open, inclusive and welcoming place for everyone.

Taking action for climate justice is a Teach Peace lesson from Quakers in Britain. People all around the world are taking action for climate justice. This lesson takes a close look at different challenges and approaches from the Amazon’s indigenous defenders to divestment campaigners in Glasgow. Leaners will become expert in one case study present it to their peers, evaluating diverse actions. Citizenship and action | Geography | History & Society | Talking and listening

A Teach Peace lesson from Oxfam. Learners will find out about two key elements of climate justice: inequality and interconnectedness. They will think in greater detail about how the lifestyles of people in the world’s high-income countries impact on the rest of the world. STEM | Citizenship and action

A Teach Peace lesson from the Afghanistan Peace Project. Drones or ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ (UAVs) are increasingly used by countries in war, including the UK, Russia and the USA, but are they a good idea? Young people will learn about how drones are used, and their effects on civilians. STEM | Religion and ethics | Talking and listening | Citizenship and action

A Teach Peace lesson from Peacemakers. How do we recognise the challenges we’ve faced? The RESTORE project was developed by Peacemakers alongside schools and restorative organisations in response to the challenges young people in schools were facing as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. This lesson on Recognition is an introduction to a much larger journey, perhaps in regular tutor group setting. Over multiple sessions, learners can think about all the RESTORE steps as a community: Recognition, Empathy, Safety, Trauma, Opportunity, Relationships, Engagement. Each one of these topics is worthy of deep dive, and the idea is that you visit them regularly over a term. Find out more at restoreourschools.com. Wellbeing | Talking and listening*

A Teach Peace lesson from the Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom. Building on more than a century of women’s peace activism, learners explore how war and conflict are experienced differently by men and women. They are also asked to reflect on why we need to talk about war and conflict and to consider how they are connected to our present lives. Citizenship and action | History & Society | Wellbeing

A Teach Peace lesson from Peace Pathways. hen in conflict with another person, we tend to behave in characteristic ways. What conflict style do you use? When do we act like turtle, fox, teddy, owl or shark? Do we tend to always react in one way? What advantages and disadvantages does each type have? Learners will become familiar with the concepts of conflict as a part of life, and of conflict handling skills. They will explore how they behave in conflicts and choices they can make. Wellbeing | Talking and listening

Mary Foley’s teenage daughter was murdered at a friend’s birthday party. 18-year-old Beatriz was jailed for life for the unprovoked attack. Explore Mary’s journey of forgiveness, which took her from rage and anger towards forgiveness, including sending a personal letter of hope to Beatriz in prison. Religion and ethics | Talking and listening

How can you love an enemy? A Teach Peace lesson from Coventry Cathedral (coventrycathedral.org.uk) If your home was bombed by an unseen enemy, how would you respond? That was the reality for the people of Coventry in 1940, and thousands of other towns and cities around the world before and since. Learn about this story. History & Society | Citizenship and action | Religion and ethics

A Teach Peace lesson from Diversity Role Models. What is the effect of bullying and discrimination against LGBT+ people? How can we stand up to bullying? Students will explore inspiring examples of upstanders and reflect on how their school can challenge discrimination. Wellbeing | Citizenship and action

Can the world be at peace when 2,000 billionaires have more wealth than the 4 billion poorest people on Earth? Learners will critically engage with real research data on the effects of inequality, articularly as it relates to the incidence of violence within society. Citizenship and action | STEM

A Teach Peace leeson from Facing History & Ourselves UK. How do we connect with the past? How have we memorialised war? Students will look at examples of memorials from World War I to Iraq and consider their messages, reflecting on how they think we should remember war. Facing History & Ourselves uses the lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.

1. Using your inner wisdom A Teach Peace lesson from Values Based Education (valuesbasededucation.com). Values-based Education (VbE) is an approach to education for schools and other settings. VbE gives learners access to an ethical vocabulary based on human values, such as respect, justice, integrity, harmony, trust and honesty. During this lesson learners will explore how to activate and use their inner wisdom to find their own inner peace. This lesson focuses on inner peace. Wellbeing | Religion and ethics

A Teach Peace lesson from CRESST (cresst.org.uk). Conflict Resolution in Sheffield Schools Training (CRESST) equips young people with the skills to be peacemakers. In this introductory lesson, designed for the PSHE curriculum in England, students will learn to identify what conflict is and why it starts. Follow-up lessons are available from cresst.org.uk. Wellbeing | Talking and listening

A Teach Peace lesson from Football Makes History. How can football tackle discrimination? Fans are the lifeblood of football, but what effect does their behaviour have? Learners will reflect on being a fan and the impact of racist, homophobic, sexist and other discriminatory chants, and think about how football can prevent discrimination. This activity has been developed by Lennard Bunt within the framework of the Football Makes History project, which is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union as part of the Football History for Inclusion project. Talking and listening | Wellbeing | Creative

A Teach Peace lesson from War Child). Think about what emergencies mean and what causes them. Investigate how conflict can change communities by focusing on the experience of refugees. Examine the different consequences of emergencies for children. Citizenship and action | Literacy