Involve your school
World Orphan Week is an easy way for pre-school, primary and secondary schools to develop international links and partnerships and give children an understanding and respect for other cultures.
WOW teaching resources are full of interesting facts, recipes, quizzes, maps and flags. Use them for a PSHE or Geography lesson. Base a display board around the information and see what else you can discover about these countries by searching on SOS Children’s Wikipedia , a special downloadable child-friendly Wikipedia selection for schools
You can download a range of resources to use at your school: just click on the items listed below:
Our unique encyclopaedia CD gives you safe access to over 2,006 articles from Wikipedia, together with thousands of pictures.
We have a selection of PDFs for you to download which describe how WOW will support orphans in :
Vietnam, Ghana, South Africa, Brazil and Belarus.Why not get the whole school involved by holding a WOW assembly - our PowerPoint presentation can inject the WOW factor into your fundraising and inspire staff and pupils to get on board.
Email schools@worldorphanweek.com or call 01223 365589
Fundraising
You could also use World Orphan Week to raise funds for us if you like. If your school raises £240 or more, you can sponsor an SOS Children's Village for a year. By becoming a sponsor your school will receive twice-yearly newsletters and photographs with progress of your sponsored village.
We have a schools' fundraising pack available which which come with a WOW brochure, WOW DVD, WOW poster, fundraising ideas, encyclopaedia CD and a school information sheet.
See how your fundraising progresses with our WOW poster. Your funds will help to support children in need in 124 countries around the world.
Hold a ‘WOW-factor’ talent show, based on 'The X-factor' TV programme
Have a non-uniform day/wear national dress/tribal costumes
Hold an art exhibition - encourage parents to buy the artwork
Hold a coffee morning with WOW decorated cookies and cakes
Do a sponsored skip, spell, or penalty shoot-out
Take part in a virtual challenge - climb the equivalent of Mt Kilimanjaro up the school stairs or ‘Walk the Wall of China’ by doing circuits of the playground. ‘Swim across Lake Malawi’ by doing laps of the local pool! It is possible with the combined efforts of teachers and pupils!
Have an SOS collection box in the school library for book fines
Do a lunchtime carwash
Hold a film screening during lunch time or after school - dress up and have refreshments and a raffle
Have a themed day - you could choose country and western and wear cowboy hats, listen to Johnny Cash and hold a barn dance
Or think of another great idea and let us know about it - we’d love to hear from you!
See how your money could give a future to children in need:
66p a day helps to support a child in an SOS Children's Village.
£3.50 buys a child a pair of shoes.
£6.40 feeds one child for a month at an SOS Village in Cambodia.
£7.50 buys a school uniform.
£72 provides clothes, school bags, school shoes and pocket money for five children.
£3,100 buys equipment for a nursery school including chalkboards, chalk, books, paper, pens and paints.
£15,600 runs a nursery school for a year, providing a quality early education to 90 children from an SOS Children's Village and the local community.
If you would like our WOW schools pack, please email schools@worldorphanweek.com or call 01223 365589 to speak to the WOW team.