"Move the World"

The Agora Portals school students celebrated Children's Day with a dual objective: to collaborate with UNICEF in its "Move the World" campaign  created to raise awareness about child malnutrition in places such as Africa, where children are hardest hit, and to remind ourselves that there are other children and young people who do not have the same opportunities as we do.

While infant and primary students were placed in the centre of the sports pavilion, representing several worlds, the rest of the students (high school), from the stands showed banners which read the phrase "Move the world "in English, Spanish and Catalan.

Then all 900 Portals students each showed our own globes which we had drawn and coloured on special cards, and in which each of us had expressed a message of solidarity. All students waved the globes at the same time.

Then our fellow 5th graders spread the fabric of a parachute, with a huge ball representing the globe on it. Making a synchronised wavelike motion, they  symbolically moved the world.

To liven up the event, we listened to and sang "We Are the World". At the end of this song, we sang "The Rights of the Child" by the Lunnis, which has become the UNICEF anthem.

Prior to this ceremony we read the story below in class and we carried out various activities related to it.