Hadleigh pupils joined tens of thousands of youngsters from across the world for the world's biggest lesson.

Doing their bit to support the Global Campaign for Education, students at Hadleigh Junior School, Church Road, joined pupils in more than 50 countries for the largest simultaneous lesson.

The school made their world record bid while thinking of others less fortunate than themselves.

Lesson : teacher Alan Wholey takes one of the classes at Hadleigh Junior School Picture: ROB BROWNE

Headteacher Diane Conway said: "The children liked the notion that they were involved in a lesson that was being taught all over the world.

"I went around the various classes and it was rather a strange experience - they were all saying almost exactly the same thing at almost exactly the same time - which is obviously slightly unusual."

Campaign information says that over 100 million children are not in school - the majority of them girls, a figure greater than all of the children going to school in the UK, the rest of Europe and the United States.

The campaign also said: "In 2000 world leaders got together and agreed on a plan to get every child into school by the year 2015 and to get equal numbers of girls and boys in school by the year 2005.

"However two years on not nearly enough is being done worldwide to make these promises a reality."

So to rectify matters Hadleigh Juniors got education off the ground on a world wide scale - they are awaiting confirmation that they have indeed smashed the existing record.

Published Friday, April 11, 2003

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