World Record-breakers!

Students from Wingate Seniors made their personal contribution towards the Global Campaign for Education last week by taking part in the Guinness World Record attempt to hold the World’s Biggest Lesson.

The lesson took place on Wednesday 23^rd April in over 100 countries.  It was part of the Global Campaign for Education’s ongoing campaign to raise awareness and pressurize politicians around the world to keep their promises to provide Quality Education for All.  In 2000, leaders of rich and poor countries committed themselves to a set of goals and targets to end global poverty and make the world a better place. Central to these are the Education for All (EFA) goals signed up to be achieved by over 164 Governments in Dakar in 2000. 

The target was set to be reached by 2015 and although we are already past the half way point to 2015, there is still a lot of progress to be made on this issue.  According to the Global Campaign for Education, “there is an inequitable distribution of quality education, with children in poorer countries most affected by a lack of teachers as well as learning materials. 72 million children and 774 million adults are currently missing out on an education.  Quality Education for All is fundamental to ensuring that people of all ages are able to develop their full capacities.”

In total 109 Wingate students participated.  In doing so they learnt about the importance of getting a good quality education, as well as the impact not being able to read and write or count has on someone’s life.  They also explored different ways in which individuals can come together to try to influence politicians to take action on such key issues.

The Global Campaign for Education is still collecting verification forms from schools worldwide, but an early count shows that the record has already been broken, with an estimated minimum of 7.5 million people taking part.  It may be some time before exact figures are published, but Wingate students should feel proud to have done their bit.  They left the lesson feeling very fortunate about their own education, and despite the success of the attempt would probably all agree that the old cliché ‘it’s the taking part that counts’ was more meaningful than ever.

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