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UNICEF School-in-a-Box Prize Draw 2013 Announcement!
Wednesday, 8 May 2013 | 
Author The World Education Games team and UNICEF are delighted to announce that Oak House School (Barcelona, Spain) is the prize-draw winning school for this year’s UNICEF School in a Box Program.
CONGRATULATIONS OAK HOUSE SCHOOL!
We also need to commend Oak House School for their amazing donation to this initiative of €10,328 … OR 60 SCHOOL-IN-A-BOX KITS! Each kit gives 80 children in poverty/emergency stricken regions the opportunity to receive an education. This means that Oak House School’s donations have impacted 4,800 children.
Two lucky students, two parents and a teacher from the school will go on the field trip to UNICEF’s projects in Laos in November 2013. They will see first hand how all the donations are making a difference in the lives of the student communities who receive these School-in-a-Boxes. Check out last year’s field trip video, for an idea of the kind of experience these lucky students will have! We look forward to sharing images and videos from this trip with you all, so that you too can see the fantastic opportunities your efforts and donations have afforded the children of Laos. Thank you to all of the students, schools and teachers around the world who participated in this Program. We look forward to seeing you all again for the World Education Games 2014!
“We were amazed and shocked to hear that we had won the WEG/UNICEF school-in-a-box competition. All of the staff, pupils, governors and parents are very excited about the trip to Laos and the great experience it will be for everyone who is going. All of the children from Year 2 – Year 7 took part in the World Maths Day challenge by completing a specially made booklet with a range of Maths questions in (maximum 200). They then all asked their friends and family to sponsor them to complete as many questions as possible within 30 minutes. The children loved the challenge and competition within each class/year group. Children from Nursery 1 to Year 1 also took part by completing set Maths games or challenges in class and again asking friends and relatives for sponsors. This year all of the pupils also wore a special t-shirt for the day with a number on. This ranged from football shirts, basketball shirts to handmade specially created World Maths Day t-shirts.”
~ Andrew Richards, Teacher at Oak House School.
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WEG 2013 was excellent fun!
Hi everyone, it’s Sandali R here again. Wow, it certainly was a fantastic WEG 2013 and a great 3 days of online competition. I want to congratulate everyone for taking part.
I am extremely proud of my sister Vihangi R who has been named Champion of Champions in her 8-10 age group catagory. I have been lucky enough to have this crown in my 4-7 age group category as well and we are both extremely excited to have flown to Sydney for the award ceremony! I really enjoyed my fellow Ambassador Sharan M’s speech at the award ceremony. I have been proud to be represent the UK. Congratulations to all of you have taken part and improved on your personal scores.
I enjoyed being an Ambassador this year and hope to see all of you on Mathletics!
Until next year!!!
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World Education Games 2013 winners announced!
The World Education Games team is delighted to announce that the process of verifying all prospective winners from the events is now complete.
Congratulations to the winning countries, schools and students! Take a look at all of the student and class winners from around the world here.
You can also check out the website for updated Halls of Fame here.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE MILLIONS OF STUDENTS AROUND THE WORLD WHO TOOK PART…
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AGAIN NEXT YEAR!
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It’s all over from Ellen, UK Ambassador
It’s Over!
Phew! What a competition! Everyone has worked themselves to the limit! I’ve had so much fun during my role as an ambassador- writing my blogs, meeting the other UK ambassadors and the Human Calculator in Bristol, radio interviews, fundraising for UNICEF, encouraging my friends to have fun in the World Education Games and taking part. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t win anything just as long as you tried your best and had fun!
E.E.E., over and out.
(Extremely Excited Ellen)
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A great time was had by all!
Hi it’s Max, one of your UK Ambassadors.
I have really enjoyed taking part in the World Education Games. It has been an honour to represent the United Kingdom and to take part in such a world wide event.
Congratulations to everyone who has taken part and hopefully you would have had fun and beaten some personal bests.
I hope everyone has enjoyed taking part and that I may have inspired one or two of you to work that little bit harder to possibly become an Ambassor next year!
Until next year, keep practising!
From Max Tyrrell, Langafel C of E Primary School
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FREE Visual Literacy Teacher Resources from the creators of World Literacy Day… Spellodrome!
We are delighted to report that Spellodrome (the creators behind World Literacy Day) have recently launched a set of groundbreaking FREE Visual Literacy Teacher Resources. These resources have been designed to cover all age-groups between 4-18yrs and are intended for use all around the world. They have included images and themes from our charity partner, UNICEF, to bridge the subjects of literacy, visual literacy and values education.
As technology advances and society becomes more digital, children are getting exposed more and more frequently (and at younger ages) to images, making the need for visual literacy more and more important as time goes on. In turn, these children are also exposed to these increased images in a less controlled manner than before.
Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image, extending the meaning of literacy, which commonly signifies interpretation of a written or printed text. Visual literacy is based on the idea that pictures can be “read” and that meaning can be communicated through a process of reading. (Source: Wikipedia)
To accompany these resources, Spellodrome is also offering a special FREE TRIAL offer.. click here to sign up for this free trial today!
See below a sneak peek:
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A letter of support from Boris Johnson, Mayor of London:
We were all delighted to receive a letter from The Mayor of London, addressed to Jayne Warburton (CEO of 3P Learning Europe and Middle East). Have a read of his message of congratulations to all the students around the world, for their great work and efforts in the Games:
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How do YOU feel about cyberbullying?
Cyberbullying is when people bully others online. Everyone has experienced bullying or cyberbullying at some point in their lives and we all agree that it’s negative and damaging behaviour that should be stopped. Last year in the WEG survey, many of you mentioned that cyberbullying awareness is very important to you… and we listened!
So this year, we are undertaking an anti-cyberbullying campaign… BUT WE NEED YOUR OPINIONS!
This is TOTALLY ANONYMOUS… we just want to know how you all feel!
Just click here and answer the questions- two minutes of your time will make a HUGE DIFFERENCE!
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3…2…1… It’s all over!
The final minutes of World Science Day have ticked away & the World Education Games has officially ended for 2013. HUGE congratulations to everyone who took part.
The Halls of Fame have been frozen, and the team has begun the task of verifying all scores have been achieved fairly and according to the rules. Keep an eye on the website – final winners and results will be revealed next week.
In the meantime, well done – and don’t forget to print your achievement certificates!
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