AGENT 2015

U2CHARIST LINCOLN

Agent 2015 is a project that has been developed in order to allow primary age children to engage with the Millennium Development Goals, and to act as agents in their local communities for the issues raised.

Agent 2015 asks children to find out more about the promises and how people are affected by them being kept/not being kept.  We want children to understand their own role in the wider world and would like to give them information about people in places quite different to where they live.  We would also like the children, and the school communities that they come from to support some of the Diocesan projects that are being developed to encourage wider engagement with key issues.

For example, at Mothering Sunday we have a programme of activities, assemblies and fundraising events to help mums having babies in Africa.  This campaign is called Keeping Mum and children are asked to buy a Mothers Day card for a mum in another part of the world.

Agent 2015’s links with PSE, RE & Citizenship

As part of Agent 2015 schools will be offered assemblies, workshops, interactive newsletters, web support and support for activities in schools.  Children are encouraged to discuss their ideas with others.  We develop the idea of responsibility towards others and encourage children to identify skills and abilities they have which can be used to make a difference.  All these activities fit in with areas of the national curriculum with regard to PSE, RE and Citizenship.

For example, we learn about deciding what is right and wrong, what is fair and unfair.  We discuss our likes and dislikes and set simple goals to make differences to our lives, the people close to us and others further away.

We talk about different communities that the children may belong to and how we deal with differences that may appear within these communities as well finding ways in which children can make positive contributions to the communities that they are a part of.

Children will be able to link what they learn from Agent 2015, as a project based within a faith institution, with how religion influences what people think and how they behave and will have the opportunity to learn some key religious stories.

These resources are under constant development and revision, as we listen to feedback from schools and pupils.

As revised resources become available, we will post them on this page.{link to Agent 2015 resource page)
For more information, please contact us.