Red Nose Day

Red Nose Day schools website provides teachers and students with tools and ideas for organising activities around Red Nose Day. In schools, the campaign and activities focus on the lives of children and young people in developing countries, and explore how some of these children lack opportunities for education.

The schools programme centres around the stories of the Red Nose Day Friends, eight children from Ghana and Uganda. Each Friend has an interactive guide plus video clips, photo gallery, a country guide and information about the issues contributing to economic poverty and hinder their ability to attend school.

In 2005, the Red Nose Day schools activities included a challenge for young people to speak out. The Send My Friend to School Challenge encouraged young people to speak up for every child’s right to an education by sending one million personalised messages, ‘buddies’, to the eight most powerful world leaders (the G8). The 'buddy' was a cut-out representation of one of the millions of children who don’t go to school. This activity aimed to remind the G8 of the promise that every child should get to primary school by 2015. Additional tools for this challenge are found on the Send My Friend to School website

The Red Nose Day schools website provides lesson plans for teachers designed for varying grade levels, from early years to secondary, that will help young people explore why other young people in the world are not able to go to school. Students are encouraged to hold an assembly to kick start fundraising and dressing up activities and promote the Red Nose Day.

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Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day website for schools was awarded the 2005 One World Media Awards - New Media Award based on the view that the website "used groundbreaking technology to engage a whole generation of UK children with the real lives of children in the developing world."