Key Stages 1&2: the Activity List provides you with a number of suggestions for Peace Day activities. You may wish to select a number of options from this list (based on viability/affordability) and present these to the class. Alternatively, to encourage pupils to take greater ownership of the activity, you may simply wish to invite suggestions from the class without reference to the list. Once you have a series of options in place/on the board, hold a vote in class to select the final activity for Peace Day. You could use the ‘Voting with your feet’ strategy below.
Vote with your feet
Write each Peace Day activity option on a separate piece of paper and position them in different places around the room, eg. if there were four options you might place one in each corner of the room.
Ask the pupils to stand beside the idea they most want to do on Peace Day.
The idea with the fewest number of pupils standing beside it after the first vote should be removed. The pupils who had selected it are then asked to pick a different idea and stand by the corresponding piece of paper ie. their second choice.
This step should be repeated until only two ideas remain; the idea with the most pupils standing beside it at the end of the process becomes the chosen Peace Day activity.
Follow up ideas: We have devised further activities and extended work, complete with handouts, which build on the