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Department of Education and Early Childhood Development

Newsletter Date Volume 1, Issue 1

UNICEF email reply

Dear Afrah, Thank you so much for your interest in UNICEF's work! To give you a brief background about the work of UNICEF, UNICEF is the United Nations Childrens Fund and is the leading, effective global organisation working on development and emergency relief for children. UNICEF is on the ground in over 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. As the worlds largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and HIV/AIDS. UNICEFs approach is to use low-cost, highly effective solutions that work dramatically to improve childrens lives. UNICEF is non-political and provides aid to children on a non-discriminatory basis based on need and has no religious, racial or political affiliations. UNICEF is supported entirely by voluntary funds. Governments contribute two thirds of our resources; private groups and some 6 million individual donors contribute the rest through our National Committees. For more information about UNICEFs work around the world, please visit http://www.unicef.org To learn more about the issue of poverty please visit: http://www.tagd.org.uk/beinformed/theissues/poverty.aspx UNICEFs work in child rights and poverty reduction is guided by the Millennium Development Goals. To find out more about the MDGs please visit: http://www.unicef.org/mdg/ What are 3 things you can do to help UNICEF's work? 1. Help lead your school in celebrating UNICEF Day for Children on Universal Childrens Day, 24th October. On this day, you can encourage students to come dressed in blue to help raise funds to support UNICEFs work in helping children go to school. Education is the right of every child but sadly 67 million children still miss out on this right every day. 26 million of these children live in the Asia-Pacific region (amongst Australias closest neighbours) and this year all funds raised on UNICEF Day for Children will go towards supporting UNICEFs work in this region. For more information, please visit www.unicefdayforchildren.org.au 2. You could also set up a UNICEF United Club at your school through UNICEF Australias Youth Advocate program. This program helps engaged young people learn more about issues facing children around the world and take action for these issues in their school and at a local and national level. To find out more about this program, please visit: http://www.unicef.org.au/Act/Be-a-UNICEF-Advocate/Join-the-UNICEF-Youth-Advocate-Program/YouthAdvocate-Program-for-Secondary-Schools.aspx 3. Once you turn 15, you are also eligible to apply to become a UNICEF Australia Young Ambassador. These youth representatives from across Australia have an exciting and unique role as passionate youth campaigners, working alongside UNICEF Australia to represent the views and interests of Australias young people as youth spokespeople. To find out more, please visit: http://www.unicef.org.au/Act/Be-a-UNICEF-Advocate/Become-a-UNICEFYoung-Ambassador.aspx I hope this helps you out!! Warmest regards,

Mia

Shantas Interview
Today our interviewee is Shanta from Bangladesh. She lives in a tin house and her teacher has high hopes for her future. She is a very clever child and wants to save human lives by becoming a doctor. Q. Do you have any equipment outside? A. Yes I do. I love skipping so I have a skipping rope.

Q. Do you have any pets inside? A. No I dont.

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Q. How many rooms do you have in your house? A. I live in a small tin house, so there is basically one room.

Q. How many people are in your family? A. Both my parents so two.

Q. How do you feel at school? A. I feel good that I am an attentive listener at school, so I feel great at school.
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So now youve heard about the amazing child Shanta and her very tough life. She loves skipping, doesnt have any pets, has one room in her tin house

My Food Diary for my Family

Saturday-Breakfast: Mum: Fruit salad (with apricot, grapes and apples). Dad: Fruit salad (with apricot, grapes and apples). Brother: Mashed fruit salad (with apricot, grapes and apples). Me: Fruit salad (with apricot, grapes and apples). Sunday-Breakfast: Mum: Fruit salad (with apricot, grapes and apples). Dad: Fruit salad (with apricot, grapes and apples). Brother: Mashed fruit salad (with apricot, grapes and apples). Me: Fruit salad (with apricot, grapes and apples). Saturday-Snack: Mum: Homemade orange juice. Dad: Homemade orange juice. Brother: Homemade orange juice Me: Homemade orange juice Page 2

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Dad: Fish curry with rice. Sunday-Snack: Mum: Homemade orange juice. Dad: Homemade orange juice. Brother: Homemade orange juice. Me: Homemade orange juice. Saturday-Lunch: Mum: Fish curry with rice. Dad: Fish curry with rice. Brother: Mashed chicken and potatoes. Me: Fish curry with rice. Sunday Lunch: Saturday-Lunch: Mum: Fish curry with rice. Saturday-Snack: Mum: Homemade orange juice. Dad: Homemade orange juice. Brother: Homemade orange juice Me: Homemade orange juice Sunday-Snack: Mum: Homemade orange juice. Dad: Homemade orange juice. Brother: Homemade orange juice. Me: Homemade orange juice.
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Brother: Mashed chicken and potatoes. Me: Fish curry with rice.

Saturday-Dinner: Mum: Fish curry with rice. Dad: Fish curry with rice. Brother: Mashed steak and potatoes. Me: Fish curry with rice. Sunday-Dinner: Mum: Fish curry with rice.
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Dad: Fish curry with rice. Brother: Mashed steak and potatoes. Me: Fish curry with rice.

My Heart Rate
My at rest pulse rate is: 15x4= 60 bpm After exercise: 0 mins: 20x6= 120bpm 1 mins: 17x6= 102bpm 2 mins: 12x6= 72bpm 3 mins: 10x6= 60bpm 4 mins: 10x6= 60bpm 5 mins: 19x6= 114bpm 6 mins: 13x6= 78bpm

This process and you will be doing STAR jumps! Lunges: Put all your body weight on one leg by spreading any of your legs out as long as it isnt both your legs. Then put both arms on the spreaded out leg and relax your whole body, except for your spreaded out leg and both your arms. Do this to your other leg as well. Elephant Stretches: Choose one of your arms and make it into an L shape. Now put your other arm in the corner of the L shaped arm. Now press the not L shaped arm on the L shaped arm. Do that to your other arm as well. SkillsDoing star jumps helps you jump for the ball if it goes really high. Doing lunges helps you run for the ball if it goes really far. Doing Elephant stretches helps you catch the ball.

Ball Skills for the 1/2s

Warm upsStar jumps: Put both arms up and make a big space between your legs. The jump and come back to normal. Keep repeating

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Ball Skills for the 1/2s

Ball Skills for the 1/2s

Warm upsStar jumps: Put both arms up and make a big space between your legs. The jump and come back to normal. Keep repeating this process and you will be doing STAR jumps! Lunges: Put all your body weight on one leg by spreading any of your legs out as long as it isnt both your legs. Then put both arms on the spreaded out leg and relax your whole body, except for your spreaded out leg and both your arms. Do this to your other leg as well. Elephant Stretches: Choose one of your arms and make it into an L shape. Now put your other arm in the corner of the L shaped arm. Now press the not L shaped arm on the L shaped arm. Do that to your other arm as well. SkillsDoing star jumps helps you jump for the ball if it goes really high. Doing lunges helps you run for the ball if it goes really far. Doing elephant stretches helps you catch the ball. Afrah Equitment: Wall, Partner, Space. Point\ Aim To throw and catch the ball. Skills: Step with the opposite leg and throw the to your partner and you can do that over and over again and once you get better and better and it you can make up a challenge that you and your partner can do over and over again. Rebecca