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Children from Osmani school council at the town hall role-playing a children's court with three judges and a volunteer playing the accused.
Anna Roth, Education Officer for the Jewish Museum presented a short talk about Janusz and then was interviewed by the children.
After a Fairtrade break the children and teachers took part in a children's court in the Tower Hamlets Council Chamber. This was based on the democratic orphangage that Janusz ran in the Warsaw Ghetto. He is famous for his work with children's rights, his stories, his radio journalism, setting-up the world's first children's newspaper, and running democratic orphanages...
You can use his work with children's courts to explore the issues of justice and children's rights in the classroom. Click here to download a teaching resource looking at the children's courts.
Click here for a pdf summary about Korczak, click here for a webpage, click here for a full online biography. For a series of photographs, click here.
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