Festival of PEACE!
To celebrate UN World Peace day, we held a week long festival of Peace. This is one event I am quite proud of as it was an idea I brought into the school that has become an annual event at IIS. Every class was involved, and something different happened ever day to celebrate peace. We created a peace garden with a peace pole, buried a time capsule, devised a play, read and wrote books, made videos, sand songs, shared international cuisine, and closed with an all school assembly where every department was represented. After the event, students shared that they felt they had a deeper understanding of what peace is, and things they can do to help build it. The greatest success was that many shared that this was the first time they felt a part of a community at the small school.