August 2010

Date Event
Aug 1

African Remembrance Day (Black Diaspora)

Aug 6 Hiroshima Day (Japanese) Download a pdf file of lesson ideas and resources from Community Relations Educvation Northern Ireland
Aug 9 International Day of the World's Indigenous people
Aug 9 Nagasaki Day (Japanese)
Aug 12 International Youth Day
Aug Chung Yuan / Hungry Ghosts (Chinese/Vietnamese)
Aug 21

Muslim Ramadan - First day

Ramadan: First Day (Muslim) Month of fasting. Find out more from the BBC Schools website

For guidance on meeting the needs of Muslim pupils in school during Ramadan, see chapter 5 'Ramadan the Month of fasting' in 'Meeting the Needs of Muslim pupils in State schools'

Aug 23 International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave trade and its abolition.
Aug 29-30

Notting Hill Carnival

Aug Prague International Folklore Festival
   
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