Teach Peace Secondary
Created in partnership with the Peace Education Network, Teach Peace Secondary offers over 50 cross-curricular lessons from a range of organisations including Pax Christi, Amnesty International, Values Based Education, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Facing History & Ourselves, Corrymeela, and War Child.
Categorised by inner, interpersonal and global peace, the lessons cover challenging themes including war and peacebuilding, antisemitism and Islamophobia, nonviolence, conflict resolution, identity and inclusion and much more.
These are free to download as well as showcased in a brochure for teachers. We hope Friends will share the lessons with the educators in their lives!
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Teach Peace Secondary (PDF) - English version
Addysg Heddwch Uwchradd (PDF) - Bilingual Welsh and English version
Lessons associated with this brochure are available at Teach Peace TES Resources
World War I learning resource: Conviction
Teaching about World War I should be about more than reciting poems about muddy battlefields. Conviction has been created to highlight a selection of moral paths taken as a result of the war. It provides opportunities to reflect on the steps we need to take for a world without war. These materials are based on the work of Don Rowe, teacher, writer and co-founder of the Citizenship Foundation.
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World War I learning resource: Conviction (PDF)
Hard copies are available at £5 to order through
Quaker Centre Bookshop
A walk in their shoes
Design your own WWII conscientious objector walking tour
The guide uses a groundbreaking new database and map of World War II conscientious objectors to help you plan a walking tour between the homes they lived in. It can be used by individuals, schools or local history groups exploring local WWII history, or peace groups perhaps seeking to mark International Conscientious Objectors Day or commemorate an anniversary connected to WWII in an alternative way.
Download A walk in their shoes (PDF)
Order hard copies through the order form.
Peace Week
A Peace Week pack will enable you to deliver a week of peace education in your primary or secondary school. A whole-school Peace Week will help your staff and pupils explore the kind of society you want to live in. You can then develop the attitudes, values and skills needed to create it. Your Peace Week can be run at any time. It can be an exciting way to start a new term, or a positive way to celebrate the end of the school year.
Your Peace Week pack includes: tools to help you organise, lesson plans, resources, staff training materials, and tips.
Peace Week was created by our Peace Education Programme with help from schools. It is part of Quakers' ongoing work for peace.
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Peace Week (zip) - English version
Wythnos Heddwch (zip) - Welsh version
Peace Week introduction (PPT)
Hard copies are available at £10 to order through the Quaker Centre Bookshop.
#EverydayMilitarism poster
As part of Quakers' work challenging militarism, this poster designed by
Abbey Thornton is a great way to spark off conversation about the roots of war and the kind of society we need to build peace. Suitable for use with children or adults.
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#EverydayMilitarism poster (PDF) - English version
Download
#EverydayMilitarism poster (PDF) - Welsh version
Explore the
Interactive version
Download learning and discussion activities (Word .docx)
Fly Kites Not Drones
Fly Kites Not Drones brings together a range of learning materials about peace and human rights. The learning resource was made in Britain, but the inspiration comes from Afghanistan, a country that has known decades of war including armed drone strikes.
Inspired by Afghan Peace activists it explores children's rights issues raised by drone warfare. Learners explore these issues from varied points of view through drama and study and develop their ethical understanding of the issues. It also offers guidance for making and flying your own kite, which can be used to send a message of peace.
The resource is available at
Fly Kites Not Drones website (offsite link)
Fly Kits Not Drones - English version
Lawrlwytho (Cymraeg) - Welsh version
Order hard copies through the order form.
A-Level Religious Studies
Pax Christi and Quakers in Britain teamed up to produce resources for the teaching of war and peace as part of the A-Level religious studies curriculum. Lessons examine the Christian contribution to issues of war and peace. And a lesson explore the different concepts of pacifism and the practicality of them.
Available from the Pax Christi website.
