UN WEEK

UN Week is an event designed by the United Nations Organization in order to promote all the ideals they stand for and try to protect, such as world peace, equality of distribution of resources, human rights. This week is traditionally celebrated in October, and this last year of 2009 we celebrated it from the 19th to the 23rd.

We began to celebrate this event because of current principal, Mr. Ian Morris viewed the United Nations as an important institutional organization that allows the world to get together and discuss problems, and it’s the only thing of its kind that we have today. This gives the UN a wide scope over important issues, and represents hope for the future. The UN also promotes the kind of values that we as a school hold important; peaceful conversation, the resolution of difficulties, helping others, peace, and sustainable development for all, but it also with the hope of becoming more than that, as it tries to make the world a better place. Thus is it important that we as a school recognize this effort made and all that it represents.

Different activities are done in each year during UN Week depending on the organizing group behind them. Usually the activities are focused on the ideals the UN represents and internationalism. Usually the whole school participates together in these activities that can take the form of physical games, trivia quizzes or multicultural parades. The week is packed full of different things to do each day for all sections of the school.

UN WEEK VIDEOS

 

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