UNICEF School Design Project Week 3

Article 28: (Right to education): All children have the right to a primary education, which should be free. Wealthy countries should help poorer countries achieve this right. Discipline in schools should respect children’s dignity. For children to benefit from education, schools must be run in an orderly way – without the use of violence. Any form of school discipline should take into account the child’s human dignity. Therefore, governments must ensure that school administrators review their discipline policies and eliminate any discipline practices involving physical or mental violence, abuse or neglect. The Convention places a high value on education. Young people should be encouraged to reach the highest level of education of which they are capable. UNICEF CRC

This week students transferred their rough draft plans of their school in Afghanistan to scale on large graph paper. This was hard initially as the students needed to develop the correct scale measurements on paper with 5mm grids. They soon grasped the concept and were working brilliantly transforming their drafts using  technical drawing skills to final two-dimensional representations ready for building. They started to use architectural graphic symbols as they added to their drawings. Placement of paths and widths of  windows, doors, walkways, needed to be calculated, all classrooms were 8m x 11m, and it was decided that the school student population not exceed 60 students with 15 students per classroom. Another consideration was how big the soccer fields would be and how to draw them to scale. Again, using great problem solving skills the relevant students solved the problem and proceeded to add playing fields to their plans.

UNICEF Australia has contacted the group and we will be organising a Skyping session with one of their new UNICEF Young Ambassadors. This will be a wonderful experience for our students as they get to speak first hand with an ambassador about the fantastic work UNICEF does to advocate for the rights of the child.

Mrs Booth, Mrs Newton & Yarob 🙂